“BRINGING UP BABY”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23527, 16 June 1938, Page 8

“BRINGING UP BABY”

HOLLYWOOD’S LATEST ENTERTAINMENT Sophisticated but riotous comedy is the latest Hollywood fashion, and one of the best of the genre was presented at a private preview at the Octagon Theatre last night. This is "Bringing Up Baby,” in which the featured players are Cary Grant, an ideal choice, and, surprisingly enough, Katharine Hepburn, known as a dramatic actress of great talent, who shows a considerable talent for lively humour in this production. Miss Hepburn portrays an impetuous society girl who always gets what she wants, and, falling in love with Cary Grant, a staid and dignified professor of zoologv, she goes after him and does her best to break up his impending marriage to his secretary. Grant, however, has only one interest in life—the completion of the skeleton of a giant dinasaur t his museum. Miss Hepburn, with the aid of a tame leopard, entices him from his work and involves him in a flood of complications in which their exploits, the leopard’s escape and pursuit over the Connecticut countryside, a milliondollar bequest, a big game hunter. Miss Hepburn’s domineering aunt, a boastful Irishman, and a suspicious psychiatrist are all tangled together in one riotous piece of entertainment. . . ~ A brilliant featured cast is in the film, with May Robson as Miss Hepburn’s wealthy aunt, Charlie Ruggles as a chatty big game hunter, Barry Fitzgerald as a boastful Irish gardener, and Walter Catlett as a comic jailor. In addition, two of Hollywood’s most prominent four-footed actors have important parts—Nissa. an eight-year-old leopard, and Asia, the famous wirehaired terrier of "The Thin Man. In keepine with its novelties of plot, the picture offers notable settings. There is a huge museum room, with a full-sized brontosaurus skeleton 80 feet long (an exact copy of the famous specimen at the Peabody Museum at Yale University), a luxurious Connecticut estate, a country club, a noted New York hotel, and a small-town gaol. “ Bringing Up Baby ” will be publicly presented for its New Zealand premiere at the Octagon Theatre on Juno 24.