The Tivoli

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7064, 25 January 1933, Page 3

The Tivoli

JANET GAYNOR AND CHARLES FARRELL Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell together are always the best possible bets for an evening’s entertainment, but when they are given material in keeping with their talents, they become the brightest stars that shine. This was forcefully and delightfully borne out at the Tivoli theatre last night where their new Fox comedydrama, “The First Year,’’ had its premiere local showing. Grank Craven's well-known stage success proved io tho strongest vehicle Janet and Charlie have had since “7th Heaven,” if not

for all time. Both Janet and Charlie are seen as young moderns, with up-to-the-minute frocks that will arouse admiration in the heart of every woman. As the hero, Charlie in tho role Craven originally wrote for himself and sometimes considered the strongest part of tho show, is given more of an opportunity', as far as the plot is concerned, than is usually his when playing opposite Janet. The story, a strong, welldeveloped one, revolves about Janet s decision as a small town girJ to marry, move away and work out a life of her own. Between two suitors —Charles Farrell and George Meeker —she chooses Farrell. For a time affairs swing along joyously enough and then the trials of “The First Year” gradually outweigh tho bliss of their honeymoon. The quarrell and separation that follow, both of which arc hilariously developed in the plot and humorously enacted by the cast, prove in the end to be just the tonic Janet and Charlie needed to make them realise tho sweetness of' their reunion following their reconciliation. A matinee will be held to-day at 2.30 p.m.