Engaging Romantic Comedy Is "Petticoat Fever”

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 189, 12 August 1936, Page 11

Engaging Romantic Comedy Is "Petticoat Fever”

MONTGOMERY AND MYKNA LUr GO TO LABRADOR (Regent: Screening Saturday.) Against a background of icebound Labrador, Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy are enacting one of the funniest comedies ever screened, in the new Metro-Gold-■wyn-Mayer picture, “Petticoat Jt’ever,” adapted from the stage hit of the same name. The story concerns a wireless operator who is so lonely that he holds prisoner two fliers, a beautiful young girl and her male companion, whom ho rescues from tho Arctic night. Reginald Owen heads the featured cast, as the blustery English man whose bride-to-bo is snatched away under his very nose. Others in the cast.are Otto Yamaoka, as the Eskimo man servant; Forrester Harvey, Bo Ching and Iris Yamaoka. Tho brilliant direction of George Fitzmaurice is to a large extent responsible for the unabating merriment of this exreedingly funny picture. Producer Frank Davis has dressed it with lavish production mountings. “Petticoat Fever ' is the first picture to bring together Montgomery aud Miss Loy since their memorable vehicle, ‘‘When Ladies Meet.’’ Each has gone far iu personal popularity since that time and improved vastly in acting technique. The funniest sequence in the new picturo and, no doubt one of the funniest ever screened, is the party given by Montgomery for his two guests—the party for which only ho and Miss Loy have the courageous flair to doa evening clothes while an Arctic blizzard rages outside. ;