ANOTHER TRIUMPHANT FARCE

Evening Star, Issue 21080, 18 April 1932, Page 9

ANOTHER TRIUMPHANT FARCE

• OUT OF BLUE' WITH GENE GERHARD ‘ Out of the Blue,’ coming on Friday to the St. James, is reported another triumph for British as compared with -American, comedy. In the starring role is Gene Gerrard, who m a single picture, ‘ My Wife’s Family, * became a box office attraction; and id his latest talkie he proves that his first performance was no mere flash in the pan. Without the naughty situations of ‘ My Wife’s Family,’ but with dialogue that is just as witty and situations that are just as hilarious, the film keeps the audience rocking with laughter almost the whole time. On' this occasion there are more pretensions to a plot, and the scene of action is not confined solely to one place, put it is still pure nonsense. . Here we have the case of a girl tailing in love with a voice heard nightly, over the air, the voice of ‘ Undo Bartholomew,’ of the 8.8. C. In real life “ Uncle ” is Bill Coverdale, a handsome but irresponsible young man, who after a wild party finds himself engaged to one girl, and then rapidly, falls in love with another, her sister,; the Cinderella of an impoverished English family; with a father who dreams of the day when he will repair his tumble-down castle, but refuses to have dancing girls in Queen Anne a bedroom when a rich cabaret owner named Blair offers to buy the place. “ Tommy ' Tucker finds that the owner of the voice she loves is even nicer than his voice, and the romance proceeds merrily until she discovers that he has been deceiving her and is engaged to her sister, Angela. In a Continental cabaret there are further comical complications, with Bill falling rapidly in and out of trouble, ■ but managing to retain nja high spirits even in the face of arrest by French gendarmes; but, of course,as should happen in all such pictures, there eventually comes a happy ending, with, everyone, including the audh ence, perfectly satisfied. Gene Gerrard, with his original and irrepressible foolery, makes the picture,as he would make any in which he appeared, but a good word should be saidfor the acting of Kenneth Kove, that scared little rabbit who has already appeared in several Ben Travers farces on the screen, and for Jessie Matthews, as the sweet but self-willed Tommy Tucker.;