"DOUBLE WEDDING"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23034, 11 May 1938, Page 23

"DOUBLE WEDDING"

ST. JAMES' THEATRE FILM

Continuing the trend in recent film production toward the treatment of modern, light comedy them.*, the Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer production "Double Wedding" will open its season at St. James' Theatre on Iriday. The story deals with the lesson given to a oress designer, Margit Agnew (Myrna Loy), who has made the mistake of trying to order her life along purely rational lines, making no I allowance for individual preferences. Her confidence in the efficacy of the method is rudely shattered when the vagabond artist Charlie Lodge (William Powell) secretly encourages nor younger sister Irene (Florence Rice) to take up acting on the films. The conflict between the artist and the elder sisctr is a cause of many humorous scenes during the film, with a superb characterisation by William Powell as the shiftless vagabond. The situation is complicated by the fact that Margit intends that Irene shall marry Waldp (John Beal), from policy rather than affection. Irene thinks that she is in love with the artist, but ho, realising it is the idea of freedom he represents that has dazzled the girl, urges Waldo to with her. The slow-witted Waldo has not the courage to do this and Lodge therefore arranges a wedding irf his trniler-home, to which Margit comes in an attempt to prevent *the ceremony. After an amusing mix-up the film reaches a happy conclusion with the double wedding which gives it its title. The story moves throughout at a fast pace, and is handled with real skill bv the cast. Any suspicion of heaviness is dispelled at once by the speed with which the action is developed, and the result makes for brilliant comedy entertainment.