'MY MAN GODFREY'

Evening Star, Issue 22572, 13 February 1937, Page 3

'MY MAN GODFREY'

The maddest, most delightfully cuckoo family in the world has been discovered. It is the preposterous tribe that resides on Fifth Avenue in New York, first brought to light by Eric Hatch when he wrote the novel ‘My Man Godfrey.’ Now these “ crazy people ” live on the screen in the romantic comedy of the same name, which opens her© next Friday at the Empire, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard. For cinema purposes, the family is known as the “ batty, balmy Bullocks.’’ The father, portrayed by Eugene Pallett-e, is a slightly bewildered financier who never knows what his wife or daughters will do next. Neither do they. Alice Brady, as the mother, is a daffodil who cannot blush unseen. The two daughters, goops of purest ray serene, are Cornelia and Irene. Cornelia, played by Gail Patrick, is spoiled and arrogant. Her sister, interpreted by Carole Lombard, is regarded as the “ dumbest debutante ever to break loose in Manhattan.” William Powell has the job of butler in that topsy-turvy, hilarious household. Irene falls in love with him. Her sister tries to have him imprisoned. The maid falls in love with him, toe. The mother likes him, but she has a parlour pet of her own. The fun gets faster and more furious every second, with laughs bursting like bombshells.