Brilliant Combination at The Palace on Saturday

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7242, 23 August 1933, Page 5

Brilliant Combination at The Palace on Saturday

RENATE MULLER SCORES AGAIN IN “MARRY ME”, FILM SUCCESS Great Britain's most highly-paid comedian, George Robey, that famous master of dialect, Harry Green, and Renate Muller, the “happiness” girl of ‘‘Sunshine Susie” — ■what a combination! Bubbling with wit and profusely sprinkled ■ with catchy songs, “Marry Me”, which comes to the Palace at the Saturday matinee brings back Renate in the film that Palmerston North has been awaiting, and her performance in this even eclipses her showing in “Sunshine Susie”. The story starts with a swing, maintains it, and finishes with a bigger one, and all three stars have all the openings they need for their individualities. Robey is the man who has brought down houses wherever he has appeared,, and yet here he is served up with talent almost equal to his own; in fact, ho is in support of Renate Muller. Green, a Jewish marriage-broker, and Robey, a pig-farmer in search of a wife, naturally claim, most of the comedy highlights, and give a better, and brighter version of the Hebrew-Irish combination, but they by no means monopolise the spotlight, for Renate is there with her tuneful voice in several tuneful tunes. Unlike most musical comedies, “Marry Me” is built on a solid background, and is no mere hotchpotch of song and dance. Renate is an. employee in a gramophone factory, in love with a colleague; he, however, has his heart set on a rich marriage, and' this incites Renate to adopt tactics of ■her own to win his affection. One of her moves is to enter his household as housekeeper, and there she works her wiles until she - disappears, only to bob up at the matrimonial bureau, synchronising with the advent of the wifehungry farmer. More port. Robert Hart (lan Hunter), the man whose affections have been swayed by the desire for wealth, cannot resist the machinations of Renate and his two brothers, and falls gradually—very gradually—but no less surely, into the trap and arms of tho woman who meant to get her man. The workings of an up-to-date marriage bureau, where talkies are made of ■ the men (or women) who are in search of women (or men), yield some of the brightest moments of the film, Harry Green excelling himself as the marriage broker de luxe; quite a few melodies are gleaned from the gramophone factory, and a stray dance or two give all that is necessary to finish off an excellent production. Incidentally, Robey, led up the garden by Renate, eventually finds a wife who simply adores pig?, Renate gets the husband she wants, and —well, that is the obvious place for the curtain.