HILARIOUS FARCE FOR GRAND

Evening Star, Issue 21631, 29 January 1934, Page 7

HILARIOUS FARCE FOR GRAND

LESLIE HEHSOH HEADS CAST OF • IT'S A BOY ' 1 It’s a Bov,’ the film, starring Lesli* Henson, Edward Everett Horton, Albert Burdon, and Wendy Barrie, ' which will begin on Friday at the Grand . Theatre, is easily one of the funniest' British farces ever presented. , As a stage play it ran for over eighteen, months in London. AS a sure cure for - business- worries and the blues it can 1 be recommended with confidence. ‘ It’s a Boy ’ is a farce of interesting and amusing complications. Two friends, the groom and his best man ? are so late for the marriage that the bride’s irate father decides that the ceremony shall be abandoned, , > ■' The guilty couple lay the blame at the feet of John Tempest, a popular novelist, and decide to produce him to confirm their story.- But “ John Tempest ” is a woman, and actually one or the wedding guests. , . This unforeseen complication has to be surmounted, and the fun grows raora "furious as the situation becomes more involved. Behind the fluster and blus,ter of the groom i§id his friend is the fear that the supposed .truth regarding the former’s “ affair ", pf years ago .will bo revealed ; a persistent youth clamouring for recognition as a son. The farce is excellently plaved by a cast which enters very fully into tho humour of the amazing situations. .