ARROWTOWN TALKIES.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4264, 26 May 1936, Page 5

ARROWTOWN TALKIES.

“THE GAY DIVORCEE.” SCREENING NEXT SATURDAY. GUY Holden (Fred Astaire), an American dancer, after a whirl among the cafes of Paris, is returning to London with his close friend Egbert Fitzgerald (Edward Everett Horton), a young English barrister. Quite bj accident on the journey to England he encounters a charming young Ameiican girl who is with her aunt, a friend of Egbert Fitzgerald. He endeavours to learn her name, but is unsuccessful. This is the beginning of a high-speed romance. In London Guy encounters the Mysterious girl Mimi (Ginger Rogers). Guy falls in 1 ove with her at once, but she snubs him, and he docs not even learn her last name. Ho tries during the remainder of the adventure to find her and win hei. A half dozen times he sees her in England, only to be rebuffed and eluded, even when he proposes to her on a country lane where he has overtaken her. What complicates the pursuit is tpiat Egbert knows Mimi, and could have arranged a proper introduction, but has not the dimmest idea that she is Guy’,s elusive flame. Egbert, in fact, has teen retained by Mimi, through her aunt, the flighty Mrs Glossop (Alice Brady), to cause a diplomatic break between Mimi and one Rupert to whom Mimi has pledged herself. The only method of which the stupid Egbert can think is to make Rupei t jealous by hiring one Tonetti (Erik Rhodes), a gigolo, to stage a tryst with Mimi at the beach hotel. By a stroke of chance, Guy manages to arrive at the artificial tryst ahead of Tonetti. When the latter arrives, a three-cornered situation of misunderstanding ensues, which becomes the peak of the story’s uproarious episodes. It is only when Rupert comes, lurked there to get his dose of heartbreak, that the relationship of all parties is disclosed. Rupert, moreover, refuses to care what Mimi does, and is, to boot, exposed as a philanderer, whom Mimi could have thrown over with a clear conscience. Guy and Mimi, much relieved, become affianced, while Mrs Glossop, who has been con- - ducting a chase of her own after the reluctant Egbert, is revealed as having capturecT and married him.