STATE THEATRE
SPARKLING COMEDY ROMANCE A sparkling comedy romance with delicious satire on true-blue British ways and foreign eccentricities is told in a light-hearted story of a society girl, which was screened at the State Theatre yesterday. A mere recounting of the story would not help in assessing its brilliant laughter-raising proclivities. It concerns a butler who spurns the daughter of the House because he “ knows his place,” becomes an officer and then feels he can now accept her advances only, to discover that she does not like him now that he is human. When she, now an A.T.S., becomes his secretary she discovers he is inhuman after all, and marries him. Michael Wilding, as Gilbey, the butler, and Penelope Ward are in the title roles, with Claude Dauphin. Lilli Palmer and -Roland Culver in important . supporting parts. Box plans are at the theatre and Begg's
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26033, 22 December 1945, Page 4
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146STATE THEATRE Otago Daily Times, Issue 26033, 22 December 1945, Page 4
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