AMUSEMENTS

Northern Advocate, 1 May 1933, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

COMEDY DE LUXE,

SONUS AND FINE STORY

“MARRY ME” ARRIVES,

.Delightful as was “Sunshine Susie/ 1 a popular vote at the close of the performance at the Regent Theatre on Saturday night would have installed “Marry Me” in even a higher entertainment sphere. The light romance is ideal in conception and is bejewelled with much rich humour, and catchy songs, which will be whistled, sung and danced to in Whangarei for some time to come. Many of the scenes are set in a gramophone factory, providing opportunities for “putting over ,, the musical interludes most ingeniously. There are some captivating - numbers, including the theme song, “Will Somebody, Somebody Marry Me,” the melody of which runs delightfully throughout the picture. Renato Muller, the German actress with the bewitching personality, again lives from the screen in a happiness role. She is in love with a fellow employee, one of three brothers who share a happy go lucky flat, and as his .heart is «et on a rich marriage, she has to adopt “football strategy.” In the process she finds herself in the office of a marriage broker, Herr Bernstein (Harry Green), who also has as a client a beetle-browed Hungarian pig farmer (George Robey), in town in search of a wife. Bernstein, not content with documental details of his patrons, has his own projecting theatre, where talking films of eligibles—imagine the fun of it —are i screened. The comical situations are I many and reach a pitch of hilarity I which completely carries the audience in its train. This film could be accused of “overcasting,” as either George Robey, the famous stage and screen comedian, or Harry Green, the Hebrew master of fun, is good enough to bo featured on his own account, but when fliese two and others of a very high calibre are brought up in support of Miss .'Muller, who needs very little comedy aid, the average spectator is likely to feel that lie has been, for once i)i a way, over-indulged. To complete a programme which can be very sincerely recommended, is anorher of the “Songs of Ireland” series, an Australian and New Zealand .Movietone news, and a pictorial record of the British Arctic air route expedition, which visited Greenland under command of Captain H. G. Watkins, This picture, over 3000 feet in length, is most novel, interesting and educative.