ARROWTOWN TALKIES.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4346, 4 January 1938, Page 3

ARROWTOWN TALKIES.

“THE PRIVATE SECRETARY.” SHOWING NEXT SATURDAY. “The Private Secretary,” starring Edward Everett Horton, has been adapted for the screen, and produced at Twickenham Film Studios, and, like “Charley’s Aunt.,”' has lived down the ages, and is still making history as the accredited ambassador of merriment and mirth.

The story concerns the adventures of the Eev. Robert Spalding (Horton), inoffensive clergyman, who is engaged as private secretary to a country gentleman. He is prevented from taking up his post by his employer’s nephew (Michael Shepley), who has come utp to London to meet him, and who intends that his best friend (Barry Mack ay) who is trying to hide from an unknown and irascible uncle (Oscar Asdic), shall have the job. Spalding’s many adve attires when in London and in his employer's house, when he is mistaken for someone else, provide entertainment of the, most ipyous sort. A first-rate supporting, cast is headed by Barry Mackay. who is as visual characteristically light-hearted and clever. Judy Gunn, the pretty and talented starlet, supplies the romance, and Oscar Asche is immense (in more ways than one) as t&io angry uncle. Davina Craig _ gives another of her inimitable comic servant c liar a otoris a fci ons.

For the background of the hunting sequences in “The Private Secretary,” AVarnham Court, a beautiful old mansion outside Horsham in Sussex, was lent by Captain Eric Lucas to the Twickenham film unit.