BRIGHT FARCE OF MARRIAGE COMPLICATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 21633, 31 January 1934, Page 8

BRIGHT FARCE OF MARRIAGE COMPLICATIONS

LESLIE HENSON IN ‘ IT’S A BOY • ‘ It’s a Boy,’ the Gainsborough picture which commences its season at. the Grand Theatre at a midnight matinee, to-morrow night at 11 o’clock, is a farce of intricate and amusing complications. Two friends, the groom . and his best man, are so late for the marriage that the bride’s irate father decided that the ceremony shall be abandoned. The guilty couple lay the blame at the feet of John tempest, a popular novelist, and decided to produce him to confirm their story. But “John Tempest ” is a woman and actually one of the wedding guests. This exceeding complication has to be surmounted and the fun grows more furious as the situation becomes more involved. Behind the fluster and 1 bluster of the groom and his friend is 4 the .fear that the supposed truth res garding the former’s affair years ago r will be revealed; a persistent youth ' clamouring for recognition as a son. This farce is excellently played by a cast which enters very fully into-the humour of the amazing situations. .Leslie Henson is, of course, outstanding and is ably supported by Wendy Barrie Edward Everett Horton, Helen Haye, Albert Burden, and Joyce Kirby. . • The supporting programme will include two Gaumont Graphic Newsreels; ‘The Old Knew,’ an Ideal Cinemagazine; ‘Rye,’ Gaumont British miniature, detailing the historic associations of » famous English town.