PARAMOUNT THEATRE
"Old Mother Riley in Business."
Arthur Lucan, with his drolleries and piquant patter in the role of Mrs. Riley. brings dame comedy to the Paramount tomorrow in the widow s campaign to aid a village shopkeeper in a fight against a big chain store. The narrative is negligible., but this is more than compensated for by the vigour and variety of the trimmings, notably the old lady's handling of the austere board meeting. She beards the lion in its London den, perpetrates playful knockabout on her leading enemy, jovially jests in a hospital, and finally establishes a pirate broadcasting station which appears to put "paid" to the big store aspirations. All goes over with pace and gusto, with supporting comedy from various small shopkeepers and the "bad man" of the piece. A touch of romance in•volves Kitty McShane and a vague young legal luminary-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 10
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146PARAMOUNT THEATRE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 10
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