FAMOUS COMEDIENNE

Evening Star, Issue 21820, 8 September 1934, Page 17

FAMOUS COMEDIENNE

GRAGIE FIELDS IN 1 LOVE, LIFE, AND LAUGHTER’ The irrepressible lass from Lancashire (there is really no need to explain that this means Grade Fields) lias never given a better account of herself, and never appeared in a more humorous story than in ‘ Love, Life, and Laughter,’ which will he shown at the Empire Theatre next Thursday. The picture is screamingly funny and affords splendid entertainment. According to reports by Grade's publicity agents, the opening scenes might have been actual happenings from her own life. She is seen as an amateur charity worker in a small English town, throwing oranges from a street float. The story does not take long in getting into its stride, for one of the oranges hit’s a man in the eye! The man is none other than the attendant of a handsome prince of royal blood, Prince Charles of Grunau, Consequently Nellie Gwyn, the inn keeper’s daughter (it is the role that Grade takes) is haled before the court for hitting a prince’s guard of honour in the eye, and thereby causing a breach of the peace. The trial is riotously funny, and the judge, in desperation, finally discharges her for no other reason than, to get rid of her.