“THE BRIDE COMES HOME”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22904, 11 June 1936, Page 7

“THE BRIDE COMES HOME”

The story of a modern girl with a super-charged temper who meets and loves a man who prefers fighting to eating will be brought to the screen of the St. James Theatre to-morrow in Paramount’s “ The Bride Comes Home, with Claudette Colbert and Fred Mac Murray in the feature roles. It is reported to be a thoroughly amusing story, skilfully presented, and possessing an appeal for all married couples. The spectacle of a young woman and a young man who disagree on everything from spinach to tooth brushes, but manage in their impetuous way to work out their heavy problem, would be difficult to present without being entertaining. Yet ‘ The Bride Conies Home ” is more than that. Lovely Miss Colbert is superb as the society girl whose father has lost all his money and who decides to go to work, while Mac Murray is grand as the hardboiled, two-fisted newspaperman who turns magazine editor and finds Miss Colbert working as bis assistant. Though they battle from tlm moment of their meeting, the magnetic force of love conspires to bring them to the threshold of marriage—with the jilted playboy millionaire, Robert Young, loft sulking in the corner. Then Miss Colbert is informed that Mac Murray snores! She learns that he goes stark mad if anybody so much as touches his tooth brush, even the handle. Further than that, lie cannot work properly in his apartment unless the floor is piled with rubbish, the bed unmade, and dirt a halfinch thick on the furniture. When Claudette undertakes to give the apartment a thorough cleaning a few hours before the scheduled wedding, MacMurray almost embarks on a cataleptic fit and chases the justice of the peace out of the house. The denouement, when Miss Colbert and Young elope to a Gretna Green outside Chicago, with MacMurray in close pursuit astride a speeding motor cycle, furnishes one of the most hilarious episodes the films have offered in mouths. The box plans are at the theatre, D.1.C., and Jacobs’s.