“Calm Yourself” Has Carload of Laughs

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 274, 20 November 1935, Page 11

“Calm Yourself” Has Carload of Laughs

ROBERT YOUNG AND MADGE EVANS HEAD EXCELLENT CAST (Kosy: Screening Wednesday Next.) For sheer entertainment on the tliree-way road to hilarity, adventure and romance, “Calm Yourself” captures the season’s-laurels. Out of its story complications it weaves more good laughs than any picture seen in weeks. Robert Young and Madge Evans head a grand cast in this newest production from the Mctro-Golclwyn-Mayer studios. Mado in the be-L farcical " manner, the picture possesses rare speed, and so its drama packs all the more punch while its merriment is as swift as a funloving heart could desire. Tho theme deals with the' worries, wiles and wooings ot Young as the head of a “confidential service” bureau. Inasmuch as he makes no limit on the kind of work he will do, he is soon involved in complications that bring a rush of amusing asmd sometimes exciting episodes. When he agrees lo taico care of a banker’s young daughter until the proper time for the financier to break the news of his marriage to a girl as young as his offspring, tho bureau operator finds himself emeshed in more woes, but w T ith abundant humour—and romance at the end of tho trail for him. It’s all happily and interestingly achieved, and so cleverly that the picture is intensely human and belicveable. Which is rare in farces, on stage or screen. The cast is admirably chosen. Madge Evans is bewitching, and Young meets all the demands of a big role. Betty Furness has her best role to date, and is more than acceptable. Shirley Ross is fine as the banker’s bride. Other splendid performers are Hardie Albright; Ralph Morgan, who is stellar as tho banker; Nat Pendleton, Claude Gillingwatcr, Raymond Hatton, and Herman Bing.