UNUSUAL COMEDY
ATTRACTION FOR EMPIRE Constance Bennett and Cary Grant, co-starred for the first time, and Roland Young as “ Topper,” will be seen in the Hal Roach-M-G-M feature comedy, “ Topper,” which will be screened on Friday at the Empire Theatre. Miss Bennett, light and gay in the high comedy of “Topper,” is said to be more delightful and alluring than in any role she has portrayed in her career. ' Just as Claudette Colbert added to her fame in “It Happened One Night” and Carole Lombard scored in “ My Man Godfrey,” Miss Bennett | comes into her own in “Topper.” Cary Grant exhibits the same gay, rollicking manner that characterised his leading man role opposite Grace Moore in ‘When You’re in Love.” The screen play is refreshingly novel in its motivating theme. Adapted from Thorne Smith’s book by Jack Jevne, Eric Hatch and Eddie Moran, the Kerbys sire presented as a rich, madcap couple who, after death on an automobile accident, are low plane spirits with the ability to mortally materialise and dematerialise.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23515, 1 June 1938, Page 4
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171UNUSUAL COMEDY Otago Daily Times, Issue 23515, 1 June 1938, Page 4
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