ZaSu Pitts Hilariously “Gets Her Man”

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 65, 18 March 1936, Page 11

ZaSu Pitts Hilariously “Gets Her Man”

SPLENDID FEATURE DEPICTS GANGSTER LIFE IN NEW LIGHT

(Kosy: Screening Wednesday Next.) Showing ludicrous situations and hilarious action',; 1 * She Gets Her Xvian' ’ has ZaSu Pitts find Hugh U’Uonnell co-starreu in a rollicking screen play which attacks the gangster problem with tongue in cneek, and furnishes a solution of the whole problem that is as startling as it is humorous.

As Esmeralda, tho accidental heroine of the story, the fluttery Miss Pitts has never been seen to better advantage. Hugh O’Connell,-noted stage comedian who has become a new team-mate, com-

plements her lackadaisical humour in grand style, and goes to make up a comedy duo that is a sure guarantee of laughs. Others who add greatly to the delightful comedy of the picture are Helen Twelvetrecs (who emerges with an entirely new personality), Lucicn Littlefield, Eddie Brophy, Warren Hymer, Gertrude Astor and Bert Gordon. The story presents Miss I’itts as the small-town sweetheart of Littlefield, owner of the Bon Ton lunch room in Plainville, Illinois, and hailed as “the bravest woman in America” when she unwittingly foils a bank robbery. Taken on a lecture tour by O’Connell, a press agent, and attended by Miss Twelvetrees, his fiancee, Miss Pitts is finally kidnapped and comes in direct contact with tho very gangsters whose work she interrupted in the small-town bank. Tho startling and hilarious climax is too utterly delicious to be revealed.

The comedy has been ably directed by William Nigh, who has kept the action moving at a brisk pace and contributed many bits of humorous by-play. Tho picture throughout has been sumptuously mounted, and in every way represents the screen at its best.