GRACIE FIELDS’S THREE MAXIMS

Evening Star, Issue 21821, 10 September 1934, Page 13

GRACIE FIELDS’S THREE MAXIMS

‘LOVE, LIFE, AND LAUGHTER’ ‘Love, Life, and Laughter,’ which will commence at tho Empire on Friday, is a picture that lives up to its name, for it provides a continual round of merriment with Graeie Fields, England’s queen of musical comedy, in what is her best role since she became a film star. It is a musical extravaganza with no pretensions to be anything hut hilarious entertainment, in which there is much singing and a boisterous romance between Graeie'Fields and John Loder, a talented actor who has returned to England after achieving considerable success in American films. Graeie Fields, of course, has most of the stage, and her exuberant personality and her delightful singing voice keep the audience in a merry mood from beginning to end. The film is mostly comedy, but occasionally the audience finds itself suddenly brought face to face with pathos, only to be back again in side-splitting laughter almost immediately afterwards. The picture is brimful of clever comedy, snappy dialogue, and a number of catchy melodies. The songs, ‘ Out in the Cold, Cold Snow,’ ‘ Cherie,’ ‘ Love. Life, and Laughter,’ ‘ I’m a Failure, and ‘ Riding in tho Clouds,’- are particularly bright numbers, and are sung as only Grade Fields could sing them. The story af fords the Lancashire comedienne ample opportunity to display her acting anil ity. From the opening scene to tho final fade-out, the action is fast-mov-ing.