‘MARRY THE GIRL'

Evening Star, Issue 22209, 11 December 1935, Page 13

‘MARRY THE GIRL '

BRIGHT FARCE AT GRAND Three of the biggest comedy successes ever produced on the screen have been ‘ Are You a Mason?’ and the two Aldwych Theatre farces, 1 Thark ’ and’ ‘ Rookery Nook,’ but the latest Aldwych Theatre farce, ‘ Marry the Girl,’ which opened its Dunedin season at the Grand this morning, undoubtedly places it as the most popular of all these comedies. The mention of an Aldwych Theatre farce is always a high recommendation as to the entertainment qualities of any comedy, but when it is associated with such a cast of players as Sonnie Halo, Winifred Snotter, Hugh Wakefield, Judy Kelly, and Amy Veness one can rely on seeing something far above the average, and this is the case in ‘Marry the Girl.’ Although Sonnie Hale and Winifred Shotter have already established themselves as favourites, they have never been seen to better advantage. Pace is the prime essential of good farce comedy, and ‘ Marry the Girl ’ has plenty of it. There _is so much pace, in fact, that good jest follows good jest, and complications pile up until the audience is on the point of complete bewilderment. It is when Hale and Wakefield, who have “ hit the high spots ” in life, decide to settle down in marriage that the sides begin to ache. For shades of the past and unhappy relies in the shape of letters pungent with sentiment will persist in cropping up at the most undesired moments. And so, with complication following complication, matters reach an apparently hopeless situation. The priceless Hale, however, fools his way out of the morass, but not before the* audience has experienced much laughter.