MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 4

MAJESTIC THEATRE.

"Third Finger, Left Hand."

Myrna Loy, "perfect wife" of the screen, and Melvyn Douglas, the man who made Garbo laugh in "Ninotchka," prove a brilliant team in "Third Finger, Left Hand," which opens tomorrow at the Majestic Theatre. The new comedy provides Miss Loy with a rampageous wife role and gives Douglas as many hilarious troubles as William Powell had in "I Love You Again." Miss Loy, a fashion magazine editor, invents a fictitious husband for business reasons, and Douglas, a landscape painter, arrives on the scene posing as the mythical spouse. She can't expose he.r deception, so takes it out by plunging the debonair Douglas into every comical trouble she can think of, even embarrassing him by scandalising his home-town folk with assumed vulgarity on their honeymoon. Her attorney. Lee Bowman, conspires to get her divorced so that he can marry her himself, and amid the laughable mix-up she and Douglas suddenly discover they have been in love with each other all along. Miss Loy plays her role to the last comedy values as she heaps troubles on the head of Douglas, who gets laughs out of his tribulations as the victim of her pranks and pays her back in kind. Lee Bowman is a romantic figure as suitor, No. two. Donald Meek as an eccentric art dealer adds to the fun, as does Felix Bressart the elongated commissar of "Ninotchka." as Myrna's art editor and co-conspirator. Bonita Granville scores in an interesting role. Raymond Walbum, HalliweP Hohbes, and Ann Morriss are also effective. -