THE PERFECT SCREEN TEAM

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

THE PERFECT SCREEN TEAM

LOY-HARIDW-GA3LE AT MAYFAIR Featuring nch well-known players as Myrna Loy, lean Harlow, and Clark Gable, ‘ Wife Versus Secretary/ which is now, at th« Mayfair, is a delightful comedy dram, in which first-class acting is allied b a logical story. Once again Myrna Loy is the effervescent young wife in love with her husband, once again slj delights the audience with polished tialogue, and once again she shows howjvell she is suited to portraying a nnlljnaire’s wife. The millionaire in thii instance is the boyish Clarko Gable, last as a highly-success-ful mn/.agine pblisher. Although ho is deeply in lovi with his wife, he is dependent on hi; young secretary, but until malicious (tongues start asking why ho finds it itcessary to employ anyone so beautifil, he does not realise that she may liset his marriage. As the third party jn this remarkable triangle, Miss Haiow has a part unlike those in which sjo has been cast in the past, and shows! that she is quite as well adapted td, playing the efficient secretary as till more sophisticated parts to which shihas been accustomed. The lesser roles sre admirably played by such nccompkhed players as May Robson, who giv|s a fine portrayal as

an understanding mother; James Stewart, as Jean Harlow’s “poor but honest” lover; Hobart Cavanaugh, George Barbier, and Gilbert Emery. The film is notable for its quick changes of scene, and women patrons will he delighted with the frocking. _ Much of the success of the production is due to the capable direction of the director, Clarence Brown. The other film is ‘ Thirteen Hours By Air.’