NEWSPAPER COMEDY
♦ „c THREE POPULAR STARS A trio of popular stars, Loretta; Young, Tyrone Power and Don Ameche, are featured in the amusing film " Love Is News," which will commence a season at the StateTheatre to-day. Because he has just; tricked her into another front-page story, heiress Loretta Young swears* revenge on Tyrone Power, ace. reporter for the New York Daily Express (managing editor: Don Ameche). Determined that he shall know just how it feels to be the object of unwanted publicity, Loretta announces to the papers that she is engaged to Tyrone, and adds that she has presented him with a million dollars. In a flash the former news gatherer is news himself, and Tyrone becomes the' target of the press and salesmen. To force Loretta to admit the hoax, he chases her, out to the country, only to find him-, self in an adjoining cell when they, are arrested for speeding. Riotously? confasing and amusing, the story ascends to a stirring, madcap climax in which the widely-publicised becomes the private truth as the modern Dair find themselves really in love Tay Garnett directed the' film, for which Darryl P. Zanuck, Twentieth Century-Fox vice-presi-dent in charge of production, selected Earl Carroll and Harold Wilson as associate producers. The' screen play by Harry Tugend and 1 Jack Yellen was adapted from the story by William R. Lipman and Frederick Stephani. t
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23341, 5 November 1937, Page 13
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231NEWSPAPER COMEDY Otago Daily Times, Issue 23341, 5 November 1937, Page 13
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