MUSICAL COMEDY
‘THE GIRL FRIEND ’ FOR STRAND ‘The Girl Friend ’ enjoved unprecedented popularity when handled by a musical comedy company in New Zealand a few years ago, and all will welcome the, news that the picturisation will begin a season at the Strand on Friday. With Miss Sothern as a demure country girl, ‘ The Girl Friend tells of the complications that beset Roger Pryor, as an out-of-work actor, when he pretends to he a theatrical producer to secure summer’s lodging for himself and his two colleagues, Victor Kilian, and Ray .Walker. .Tack Haley portrays Miss Sothern’s brother, us an aspiring playwright trying to rise to fame with a play about Napoleon. When the trio, headed bv Pryor, comes to the rambling farmhouse of Haley and Miss Sothern, a Ejreat deal of interest is shown in the Napoleonic tragedy. To them the whole _ thing is just a comedy stunt, hut the situation becomes acute when Haley mortgages the old homestead to raise enough money to convert the ham into a little theatre for a try oflt for his play. Also to be shown is an outstanding film, ‘ Deception.’
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Evening Star, Issue 22273, 26 February 1936, Page 5
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187MUSICAL COMEDY Evening Star, Issue 22273, 26 February 1936, Page 5
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