CLEVER COMEDY

Evening Star, Issue 22955, 12 May 1938, Page 8

CLEVER COMEDY

MISCHA AUER HEADS CAST ‘ Merry-go-round of 1938,’ which should prove one of the most entertaining comedies to be screened in Dunedin for some time, will commence a season.at the Regent The film is notable for its hilariously impossible situa i: ous and the brightness of the dialogue. The cast includes several of the screen’s most accomplished comedians, outstanding among these being Mischa Auer and Alice Brady. John King is cast as a rich young man. Tony, whose fortune is dependent on the moods of his wealthy but eccentric Aunt Hortense, a part taken by Alice Brady. Tony is in love with Sally, a young vaudeville player* but his a unt does not approve of the match. In the role of Sally, Joy Hodges la responsible for a very appealing portrayal. The main comedv interest is supplied by the efforts of Sally’s foster-fathers, Mischa Auer, Billy House, Bert Lahr, and Jimmy Savo. to persuade Aunt Hortense that Sally is the ideal girl for Tony. To do this Mischa is disguised as an Indian swami, complete with his bed of nails. Jimmy beconies his servant. Billy dresses as a woman and .assumes the’name of Lady Flintridge, a typical English aristocrat; and Bert, learning that Aunt Hortense in her girlhood had a love affair with a Canadian woodsman, obtains an axe, a sledge, a dog team, and a woodsman’s jacket. The situation is rather complicated when the self-styled swami discovers that he is endowed with mystic powers, and Aunt Hortense’s real lover, who has deserted lumbering for the wrestling ring, makes a sudden appearance to claim his bride. The picture culminates in a wrestling match between the two woodsmen, and Mischa brings his mystic powers into play to save Bert from an untimely death.