ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 181, 2 July 1936, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAYFAIR

“THE BRIDE COMES HOME.”

The story of a modern girl with * a super-charged temper who meets and loves a man who prefers fighting to eating, will be brought to the screen of the Alayfair Theatre to-night in Paramount’s “The Bride Comes Home,” with Claudette Colbert and Fred Mac Murray in the featured roles. It is a thoroughly amusing story, skilfully presented, and possesses a definite appeal for all married couples. The spectacle of a young woman and a young man who disagree on every thing from spinach to toothbrushes, but manage in their impetuous way to work out their heavy problem, would be difficult to present without being entertaining. Yet “The Bride Comes Home” is more than that. The picture could net have been better cast. Lovely Miss Colbert is superb as the society girl whoese father has lost all his money and who decides to go to work, while MacMurrav is grand as the hard-boiled, two-fisted newspaperman who turns magazine editor and finds Miss Colbert working as his assistant. Though they battle from the moment of i their meeting, the magnetic force of love conspires to bring them to the threshold of marriage —with the jilted playboy millionaire, Robert Young, left sulking in the corner. Then Miss Colbert is informed that Mac Murray snores! Site learns that ho goes mad if anybody so much as touches his toothbrush, even the handle. Further than that, he can’t work properly in his apartment unless the floor is piled with rubbish, the bed unmade, and dirt a half-inch thick on 1 lie furniture. When Claudette undertakes to give the apartment a thorough cleaning a few hours before the scheduled wedding, MacMurray almost embarks on a cataleptic hr. and chases . the just ice of the peace out of the house. The denouement, when Miss Colbert and Young elope to a Gretna Green outside Chicago, with Mac Murray in close pursuit astride a speeding motorcycle, furnishes one of the most hilarious episodes the filma have offered in months.

KOSY THEATRE

FOUR HOURS TO WAIT

As Tony Mako, the unforgettable character in Paramount’s “Four Hours To Wait!” showing tonight at the Kosy Theatre, Uicliard Bart holiness plays the part of a man sentenced to death, who spends his la<st few hours of freedom in evening up an old score. The action of this melodrama is set. entirely within a Broadway t heatre. Bart holiness is brought to the theatre by tlie detective who is escorting him to prison. During an intermission he escapes from .his guard, but instead of fleeing, hides within the theatre, awaiting the arrival of the man who gave the information that sent him to his death. In the meantime, the dramas of others in the theatre—a cloakroom boy, who lias stolen and faces gaol, a rich woman planning to run away with her sweetheart, a philanderer caught in his game—arc rising to their climaxes. The solution of all these life dramas is found by the shot, that evens up Tony Mako’ts score. “LADIES SHOULD LISTEN.”

The hectic and tremendously amusing love affair between a wealthy * playboy and telephone operator in his hotel who tapped his wire and trapped his heart. That, in brief, is the basic *tory of the farce-comedy. “Ladies Should Listen,” also showing to-night at the Kosy Theatre, with Cary Grant, Frances Drake, Edward Everett Horton, George Bavbicr, Xytlia Weetinan and Charles Kay in the principal roles. The picture, directed by Frank Tuttle, who is known by his ability to turn out amusing, whimsical farces, also features Rorvita Moreno, noted Spanish actress. The story pm-outs Gary as a wealthy bachelor, just returned to Paris with a valuable nitrate mine concession. The object of the women’s affections, he is doubly sought now because of hie wealth; and among the feminine suitors arc Rosita Moreno, who tries to blackmail him; Xydia Westnian, millionaire nit-wit, and Frances Drake, telephone operator, who loves him sincerely. Tapping his wires, she knows all about his affairs, uijd when she tries to have him from the grasping females, idle further complicates matters However, with the help of Cupid and a little ingenuity she succeeds in her plans—and eventually traps his heart.