‘FINN AND HATTIE’

Evening Star, Issue 20988, 30 December 1931, Page 7

‘FINN AND HATTIE ’

COMING OCTAGON ATTRACTION A comedy cast of adults and juveniles, known wherever motion pictures are shown, was assembled by Paramount for 1 Finn and Hattie,’ the Donald Ogden Stewart comedy picture, which will show at thb Octagon Theatre on Friday. The humorous Haddock adventures, directed by Norman Taurog and Norman M'Leod, from a screen play by Sam Mintz, has that rubber-kneed comedian who won first screen honours in ‘ Social Errors,’ Leon Errol, in the leading comic role. Zasu Pitts, mouruful-eyed, sad-voiced feminine fun-maker, whose single scene in Nancy Carroll’s ‘ The Devil’s Holiday,’ as the hotel telephone girl, almost turned the picture into a screaming comedy, is Mrs Haddock to the life. Mitzi Green, the “ I’ve Got a Secret ” child of ‘ Sweetie,’ and a star in her own right at nine years,of age, is seen with Jackie Searl, the “ kid brother ” of ‘ Tom Sawyer,’ as the Haddock hooligans. Others in the cast include Lilyan Tashman, blonde .siren of the upper rank of film favourites; Regis Toomey, seen most recently with George Bancroft in ‘ Scandal Sheet.’ Errol, who came to the screen only after talking pictures were well established, made his film bow in ‘ Paramount on Parade.’ ‘ Social Errors ’ marked his first featured film appearance, after _ a score of years on the stage. Ho is an old Ziegfeld star, and toured the world making fun in vaudeville. Zasu Pitts was last seen in ‘ Monte Carlo.’

‘ Finn and Hattie ’ deals with fhe humorous adventures of a middle-aged Middle-Western couple and their two young charges on their first trip abroad. The story travels across country, across the sea, to Paris, and starts back*