STILL POPULAR AT GRAND

Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 21

STILL POPULAR AT GRAND

THE COMERY ‘ ARE YOU A MASON ? ’ So successful was the opening week ol ‘ Are You .a Mason ?’ at the Grand that an extension of the season was found necessary. When it was released recently in Australia this film was received with tremendous enthusiasm, and for every day of the season in Dunedin the theatre has been full. The popularity of this production is well deserved, as it is undoubtedly one of the funniest and most entertaining comedies that have yet reached the screen. Two favourites, Sonnie Hale and Robertson Hare, head a strong cast cf players, which includes the cheery Dave Burnaby, Lewis Shaw, and a charming newcomer to the screen, Gwyneth Lloyd. „ . . Briefly the story centres round the desire of a young wife that her husband should become a member of the Masonic Lodge. This whim is sponsored by her mother, whose iron hand has rilled her husband since a disastrous indiscretion in his earlier days.’ It is impossible to write of all the situations that occur in this hilarious farce, but the happy team of stars carries the comedy along at a furious pace, and the audience is kept in fits of laughter throughout the whole of the film. The first half of an enjoyable programme is a splendid mystery drama, "Passing Shadows,’ starring the fine character actor, Edmund Gwenn.