REGENT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 38, 13 August 1941, Page 4

REGENT THEATRE.

"The Man Who Lost Himself."

Brian Aherne does double-duty as a co-star with Kay Francis in "The Man Who Lost Himself," which opens tomorrow at the Regent Theatre. A dual role accounts for Brian's double-duty. In the film with Kay Francis, he is seen as two characters, Evans and Scott, and when Evans, is consistently and' persistently mistaken for Scott, even by Mrs. Scott, the comedy begins. Miss Francis is the mistaken Mrs. Scott. Thejpicture, produced by Lawrence W. Fox, jun., and directed by Edward Ludwig for Universal, is a screen adaptation of English novelist H. DeVere Stacpoole's novel, "The Man Who Lost Himself." One of England's best-sellers, the novel was on the way to stage and screen production in the British Isles when the war curtailed theatrical activities there. The producer obtained the valuable property, in which he saw a hilarious screen comedy. He engaged Aherne and Miss Francis, added S. Z. Sakall as the befuddled butler, Nils Asther as Mrs. Scott's admirer, Henry Stephenson as the family attorney, Dorothy Tree as Mr. Scott's lady friend, and Marc Lawrence as a peculiarly obnoxious blackmailer. Fox glive the director instructions to wring the last possible bit of comedy out of Eddie Moran's script, and the result is a first-class comedy.