FRIVOLITY RULES

Evening Star, Issue 22879, 10 February 1938, Page 5

FRIVOLITY RULES

STANLEY LUPINS FOR REGENT ‘ Over She Goes,’ which opens at the to-morrow, is a frivolous frolic, with Stanley Lupino leading the fun. This amusing musical comedy filmran with great success for several months at the Saville Theatre, London, in its stage version, but with the greater • scope of the ■ screen is said to be vastly more entertaining. The story of ‘ Over She Goes ’ is briefly this:—Pamela thinks it is time the handsome young Lord Drewsden proposed to her, so, making quite sure his lordship is at hand when out hunting, “ over she goes.” This does the trick. A similar ruse is equally successful in the case of Pamela’s two friends, who fall straight into the loving arms of the backward Tommy Teacher and Billy Bowler, Harry’s former vaudeville partners. But congratulations have hardly been exchanged when complications set in. Alice Mayhill, to whom the young lord has once written an ardent letter, arrives to press her claim to share his recently-acquired title. To outwit Alice, inventive Billy devises a scheme whereby Tommy must appear as Harry’s uncle, the former Lord Drewsden, thereby -depriving Harry of the title. But Tommy causes difficulties, and the plan has just been abandoned in favour of another brainwave of Billy’s—to steal the incriminating letter —when Silas Morner, a faithful admirer of Dolly’s, suddenly turns up. A mountain of a man, he makes Tommy decide to seek refuge in Billy’s plan of assuming the character of the late Lord Drewsden. Billy is preening himself on the success of the idea when the unexpected appearance of Harry’s aunt. Lady Drewsden, brings a new development. # The final blow falls with the arrival of the real Lord Drewsden. This is almost too much, but now Tommy takes charge himself. Enlisting the help of Lord Drewsden, the enthusiasm of Harry and Billy, the beauty of Pamela, Dolly, and Kitty, he not only devises a scheme which proves eminently successful, but also establishes who really has the hrains of the company. There are some very good song numbers and novelty routines in | Over She Goes.’ One unusual number is a dance up and down the stairs of a lighthouse. An interesting song, ‘1 Breathe on Windows,’ is also staged in the lighthouse.