EXCELLENT CAST IN ‘IT’S A BOY'

Evening Star, Issue 21632, 30 January 1934, Page 6

EXCELLENT CAST IN ‘IT’S A BOY'

TfIGAL BRITISH COMEDY FOR GRAND leslie Henson, the English comedian win can always be depended upon for exiellent fooling, makes the most of a first-rate chance in ‘ It’s a Boy,’ the British farce-comedy which opens on FrQay at the Grand Theatre. It is a conedy of the kind at which the British are past masters. . Hie supporting cast is outstanding, am! includes Albert Burdon, Edward Evlrett Horton, Wendy Barrie, Joyce Kiby, and Helen Haye. tiio wouldn’t laugh at the quandary of bn unfortunate man who on the moin of his marriage with a charming giri (Wendy Barrie) is suddenly confronted as a bolt from the blue by a yoith (Albert Burdon), who states that heis a heritage from far-off war days, an{, in fact, that Edward Everett Horton is his “ daddy,” proclaimed in a brcid provincial accent? 'tie delay and confusion —the efforts to silence the youth, who demands £1 bOO for keeping his mouth shut—• leal to an enormous amount of trickery an| hilarity. .. J 1 this makes up the story, ending in the clearing of the character of the briegroom and providing no end of rioous merriment for the audience.