Rotating Bride in Marital Mix-ups

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 5

Rotating Bride in Marital Mix-ups

“SMARTY” PROVIDES AN UNUSUAL THEME FOR FANS

(Kosy: Screening Saturday.)

“Smarty,” the novel story of a rotating wife who furnishes some of the most hilarious marital tangles imaginable, has Joan Blondell and Warren Wiliam in the leading roles.

The plot, based on the play by H. Hugh Herbert, concerns a young bride, beautiful but irritating, who longs to bo crushed and mauled and beaten up in true caveman style by her loving mate, and continues her search for such a lie-brute until she finds him.

Joan Blondell plays the part of the beautiful but spoiled wife who goes from the arms of one husband to another and back again, while Warren William and Edward Everett Ilorton have the roles of the husbands. Both are too soft with the young cave-lady and lose her, but the bonnic bride gete a thoroughly satisfactory beating before the curtain goes down.

Others in the cast include Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Joan Wheeler, Virginia Sale, and Leonard Carey. Robert Florey directed the production from the screen play by Mr Herbert and Carl Erickson.

George Raft lias just had the spelling of his surname legally registered. Previously it was spelt Ranft.