FRANKLY PRESENTED

Evening Star, Issue 21709, 2 May 1934, Page 11

FRANKLY PRESENTED

‘ DESIGN FOR LIVING ’ COMING TO REGENT Paramount’s film adaptation of Noel Coward’s ‘Design for Living,’ which will be screened on Friday at the Regent Theatre, is claimed to clinch Ernst Lubitsch’s reputation as the most versatile of all the top-rank directors in Hollywood. Lubitsch has won renown as a director of tragedy, drama, comedy, farce, and gay musical_ romance. Now, in ‘ Design for Living,’ starring Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, and Edward Everett Horton, Lubitsch brings to the screen a startling presentation of modern life. It is a story of three people—two men and a woman—who love each other very much, without destroying their old bosom friendship. Answering an ageold question women have been asking themselves for years, ‘ Design for Living ’ shows Miriam Hopkins as the young modern miss who cannot decide between two men, played by Fredric March unci Gary Cooper, The three join forces; Miss Hopkins becomes the boys

severest critic, gets a producer to put on one of March’s plays, and gets Cooper an art reputation. As it eventually must, the situation gets out of control—and it is not until Edward Everett Horton conies into the scene as a villainous comedian that the boys put up a united front before their joint enemy to win back Miss Hopkins's love.