PRINCESS THEATRE

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11772, 7 March 1924, Page 11

PRINCESS THEATRE

“GRUMPY” AND “FORGET-ME-NOT.”

When Theodore Roberts, May McAvoy, and Conrad Nagel appear together in a picture there is a fair indication of its quality. This is very much tho case with “Grumpy,” the Paramount film which has pride of place on the new bill at the Princess to-day. In the story, Andrew Bullivant, a retired criminal lawyer, spends bis time mainly in living up to bis title of “Grumpy.” In the retirement of his country estate bo favours the marriage of his granddaughter Virginia to Ernest Herop when Ernest shall have proved himself able to assume matrimonial responsibilities. Ernest goes to South America for a diamond firm, and on his return voyage carries a valuable gem to deliver to bis firm in London. Jarvis, a crook, reads of this in a newspaper, and—then the story begins in earnest. It is a remarkably ingenious story, and the denouement is absolutely startling Along w:l!i “Grumpy” will be

screened “Forget-me-not,” a Metro picture, in which Bessie Love and Gareth Hughes are prominent. But they don’t "hold the screen all the time. Queenie, the dog which earns £3O a. week, has a lot to do with the story, which is essentially of human interest. A Broadway comedy, “Sweet Cookie,” is expected to make the patrons of this theatre laugh until they are aching to stop. The first screening of the new programme begins at noon to-day.