GRAND'S ATTRACTIVE DOUBLE BILL

Evening Star, Issue 21570, 16 November 1933, Page 14

GRAND'S ATTRACTIVE DOUBLE BILL

' COCKTAIL HOUR' AND ‘NO MORE ORCHIDS ' “ New Beer’s Day,” as they designated April 7 last in Southern California. came along at a very appropriate time for Director Victor Schertzinger and the company making the Columbia picture ‘ Cocktail Hour,’ which begins at the Grand to-morrow. There are no end of cocktails in the picture, as its title indicates. They were of the synthetic sort, just some pale ginger ale with tiny olives dropped into the glasses. Bebe Daniels, starring in the picture, is disappointed in a love affair she has on board a transatlantic liner, and when she reaches London declares; “ I’m going to do exactly what a man would do—go out and get cock-eyed!” So she takes her chum, Muriel Kirkland. and an old red-nosed cabby of the English metropolis, and they deliberately seek out the toughest 11 pub ” they can find. In front of a gorgeously authentic old-fashioned British bar the girls repeatedly stand treat for everyone in the house—a lot of typical Whitechapel “ bar flies.” “ Now here.” said the director, as he prepared for this howlingly funny scene, “we can’t play this sequence on near-beer or sarsaparilla, or any of that kind of stuff. We’ve got to have real beer. It’s legal to-day, and I’m going to stand treat.” _ Ho sent a property man down-town in Los Angeles for two half-barrels. It was a grand occasion—the making of that bar-room sequence. There was genuine hilarity in it. And after the acting part was over all hands, including electricians, grips, prop boys—and fellows from adjoining sets—stepped up and enjoyed themselves_ as guests of Schertzi tiger. Bebe Daniels, Randolph Scott, Muriel Kirkland, Barry Norton, Sidney Blackmer, and Jessie Ralph are in the cast. In the other picture, ‘ No More Orchids,’ Miss Lombard brings tp the screen a sharply-cut representative of the socially and luxuriously patterned debutante whoso position of family wealth often makes life a bugbear and ostracises them from the pleasures their less wealthy sisters enjoy. She has the strength and energy to drive through the cloying surroundings of money and find the elements of life that she wants. Miss Lombard has been given an excellent supporting cast for her brilliantrole in ‘No More Orchids.’ Walter Connolly and Louise dosser Hale, two of the finest character players in the country, head the oast. Lyle Talbot, Jameson Thomas. Ruthelma Stevens, Allen Vincent, Ed. J. Lc Saint, and Arthur Houseman are others.