Fields in the Role of A Flying Inventor!

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 219, 19 September 1934, Page 5

Fields in the Role of A Flying Inventor!

PLENTY OF LAUGHS FOR “YOU’RE TELLING ME” HIT (Kosy, Screening Saturday.) If W. C. Fields had not been such a “goofy” inventor, he would not Have met the foreign princess who was responsible for his ultimate success, and if he had not met the princess, his daughter could not have married the banker's son. That, in a few words, is the substance of “You’ro Tolling Me,” W. C. Fields’ first starring picture for Paramount. In addition to Fields, the picture features Larry “Buster” crabbc, Joan Marsh, and Adrienne Ames. Erie Kenton handled the direction. Fields is cast as a flighty inventor. His devices do not sell but they bring him plenty of trouble. His family, the victims of a shiftless, easy-going father and husband, aro at low-ebb so far as their social standing is concerned. His daughter cannot even go around with tho banker’s son, who loves her. In despair the old man tries to sell his latest invention, a puncture-proof tyre. He fails completely, but right at the worst of his despair, he runs into a regal princess of high social standing. She becomes his pal, and the manner in which she sets the inventor and his family in right with the local “highhats” is both interesting and amusing.