“Easy to Take” Dramatises Radio Life

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 11

“Easy to Take” Dramatises Radio Life

NEW ROMANTIC TEAM: TALENT ED CHILD MUSICIANS (Kosy: Screening To-day.) Marsha Hunt and John Howard appear as a romantic team for the first time in their film careers in Paramount’s tuneful corned-ro-mance of radio life, "Easy to Take.” The picture introduces Howard as a radio "uncle.” He hates the job and most of the kiddies—but grins and bears it for the forty dollars a week it brings. The story gets under way when Howard is named in the will of an eccentric radio fan, as guardian of a wealthy ten-year-old, Douglas Scbtt. He takes the job when lie meets the boy’s sister, Miss Hunt. Complications begin almost immediately; the boy’s estate proves a myth and Miss Hunt, angry at the pub-licity-seeking activities of Howard’s manager, Eugene Pallette, runs away. Meanwhile >Scott has proved himself a spoiled high point in the story comes when Howard spanks him in front of a microphone with a million enraged women listening in. Just as it has been the means of separating them, radio at length brings Miss Hunt and Howard together again. "Easy to Take” presents several talented child musicians during its studio sequences. Pallette, Robe Greig and Jan Duggan are given comedy roles, and Glenn Tryon, director has paced the film as light romantic comedy throughout,