“Easy Living” Has Impressive Names in Cast

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 81, 6 April 1938, Page 11

“Easy Living” Has Impressive Names in Cast

A COMEDY OF THE ULTRA SMART

SORT

(Mayfair: Now Screening

Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, Ray Milland and Luis Alberni come to the screen in one of the most pretentious productions of the current season.

The picture is Paramount’s “Easy Living," a comedy of the ultra smart sort which Director Mitchell Leisen selected as liis follow-up to the recent l hit “Swing High, Swing Low." Plot of the film, which is from a screen play by Preston Sturges, is laid in New York. Edward Arnold will be seen as an irascible and domineering stock market operator known as the "Bull of Broad Street." Jean Arthur is a member of a magazine staff who unwittingly becomes the town’s most discussed butterfly, through a combination of circumstances involving Arnold, certain chatter columnists and idol worshippers. Alberni plays a former chef who has become proprietor of a swanky apartment hotel and knows all tho angles. And Milland appears as Arnold’s sou who, when disinherited, becomes a waiter in a restaurant.

Filming the picture was anything but a tranquil procedure, for in addition to exploring the most hectic inner workings of the stock market, the story calls for a riot in the restaurant, of all places, with all the dishes and food participants may care to use as ammunition.