ENGROSSING AND CHARMING

Evening Star, Issue 21900, 11 December 1934, Page 11

ENGROSSING AND CHARMING

1 T.HIRTY-DAY PRINGESS' FOR ST. JAMES * Thirty-Day Princess,’ which commcnccs on Fi’iday at the fet, Janies, is a delightful Ruritanian romance m which the essential difference from the style inaugurated by the late Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, or, he was better known, “ Anthony Hope, is that the mythical European monarch and his lovely daughter are brought from the kingdom to the great world outside instead of a stranger from that world making his presence felt m Ruritania. A lovely princess goes to America to aid in raising a loan tor her poverty-stricken country, but on arrival has a disastrous attack of mumps. A substitute is found in an out-of-work chorus girl, but inevitable complications arise when this deception is found out, as it had to be. How the “ face ” of the principals in the matter to say nothing of their hearts and their dollars, are saved provides an engrossing tale. 'Sylvia Sidney is _ firstrate in the dual part of the princess and the pseudo-princess, while Cary Grant is ins usual excellent self as the unconvinced young newspaperman who nearly upsets the whole “ applecart ” but concludes by falling in love with the beauteous young lady for whose pseudo-imperial sake be punched at least one unbeliever’s bead.