Barbara Stanwyck Makes Love Comedy Debut

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 273, 18 November 1936, Page 11

Barbara Stanwyck Makes Love Comedy Debut

"THE BRIDE WALKS OUT” GAY WITH ENTANGLEMENTS (State: Screening Saturday.) Coming to the screen in a new kind of role into which she ably devetails her extensive range of talents, Barbara Stanwyck is starred in “The Bride Walks Out,” a gay and breezy romantic comedy, in which she is seen with two of the screen’s foremost leading men, Gene Raymond and Robert Young. Miss Stanwick’s bow in a comedy of the typo of “The Brido Walks Out’' is furthered by the appearance of Ned Sparks and‘Helen Broderick, who contribute pungent humou This quintet is involved in a romantic entanglement which makes for some of the screen’s gayest comedy, according to preview critics. A moment after Raymond and Miss Stanwyck are married, the bridegroom is arrested for violating the peace and the bride is pursued by a millionaire nian-about-town, Robert Young, who can provide the luxuries of life the lady cannot extract from her husband’s thirty-five per week.

Young’s intervention comes to a head, with Barbara planning to get a divorce. Raymond undertakes a hazardous surveying position in South America, of which Miss Broderick learns through her husband, Sparks, who is Raymond’s business handyman. A mad and merry in-the-nick-of-timc pursuit from Young’s swank Long Island estate to the steamer pier from which Raymond’s boat is departing satisfactorily ends this devil-may-care comedy.

The' inside- story of intimate happen-1 ings in Hollywood is told in Bara- 1 mount’s “Hollywood Boulevard,” in which thirty stars of the silent days of j motion pictures appear. <®> <S> «> <?> When a noted romantic actress was taken ill, Marsha Hunt, who by popular Hollywood vote has advanced farthest in her work during the past yea,r, was given the leading romantic role in Paramount’s forthcoming “College Holiday.”