Riot of Happiness With “Girls Will Be Boys”

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 54, 6 March 1935, Page 5

Riot of Happiness With “Girls Will Be Boys”

MERRY MIX-UP WITH NEW CONTINENTAL STAR

(Kosy: Screening . Saturday.)

introducing to the world’s cinema public the vivacious Continental actress, Dolly Haas (aptly described as “four feet of captivating Continental feminine irivolity”), “Girls Will Be Boys” is something new. In this film Miss Haas is seen to equal advantage as a “boy” and as the sparkling and charming young lady she really is. Her masquerade as a boy eventuates when, as Pat Cavcrley, she writes to her grandfather, the Duke of Bridgewater (whom she has never seen), who mistakes Pat as being short for Patrick. When sent for by the Duke, she learns that he is a confirmed womanhater, and decides to pose as a boy for a joke, not realising what piquant situations aro bound to ensue.

In tho gymnasium, Geoffrey, the Duke’s young estate manager, appointed to “make a man” of Pat, who appears to need such treatment, puts her through her paces unmercifully with a rowing machine, boxing gloves, and a punch-ball, finally instructing her to cool off by having a cold shower with him! She successfully overcomes this difficulty, but later, when Geoffrey rescues her from drowning, ho is confronted with the “awful” but undeniable truth. He decides that the Duke must bo told, and they think an ideal way has presented itself when the Duke is perturbed at having no lady in the house to receive a Princess friend and her son who intend visiting him. Pat appears in curls and feminine attire just as the Princess arrives, believing that, having saved the situation, her grandfather will forgivo her for the deception and discover that ho is not such an intense woman-hater as he thought; but the Duko still thinks she is a boy —masquerading as a girl to ‘ ‘help him out.” How it all works out is delightfully told in a laughter-laden climax to this sparkling, unique comedy. Supporting Miss Haas is Cyril Maude, who gives the perfect cameo of tho irritable Duke; Esmond Knight as Geoffrey; Edward Chapman, Irene Vanbrugh, Ronald Ward and Charles Paton. The film was directed by Marcel Vane.