'IT'S A BOY'

Evening Star, Issue 21634, 1 February 1934, Page 11

'IT'S A BOY'

LESLIE HENSON FARCE FOR GRAND ‘ It’s a Boy,’ the film starring Leslie Henson, Edward Everett Horton, Albert Burdon, and Wendy Barrie, which will begin at the midnight matinee to be held at the Grand Iheatie from 11 o’clock to-night, 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 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 of the wedding guests. This unforeseen complication has to be surmounted, and the fun grows more furious as the situation becomes more involved. Behind the fluster and bluster of the groom and his friend is the fear that the supposed truth regarding the former’s “ affair ” of years ago will be revealed; a persistent youth clamouring for recognition as a son. The farce is excellently played by a cast which' enters very fully into the humour of the amazing situations.