AMUSEMENTS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 72, 20 January 1930, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

“siOLD YOUR MAM” LAURA'S LATEST FARCE COMEDY STARRING LAURA LA PLANTE. ON KING'S SCREEN. Laura La Plante (seeks romance in Paris in “Hold Your Man”, tlniversal dialogue farce-comedy showing at the Kind's Theatre to-night, and- the results are beyond her wildest dreams.

Alisgj Laura .La (Plante’s ■ Latest starring vehicle is of a. highly original datura, and gives .her the ffullest possible scope to indulge ber special screen talents and accomplishments. One of its most entertaining passages is her depiction of the everyday action,,s .'of -a husband after romantic ardor hast cooled.

In tbo story, Mis s La Plant© goes to Paris to study art—and isi fascinated by her romantic foreign model, whom impersonates both an apache and a nobelman —and turns out to ho (neither. Her 'deserted husband comes to Paris with another girl, whom be intends to marry as soon as the divorce is granted. All tlio principals are penned np in onoi place by a heavy rainstorm, and events of a highly ludicrous and unexpected nature pile up thick and fast.

Miss La Plante lias never keen seen to better advantage than in .“Hold Your Man”. Her leading man jg Walter Scott, !a newcomer ten the screen for whom a highly successful career predicted. Scott lias already made a name for himself in stock afid musical comedy. The cast also includes Eugene Border and Mildred Van Horn. “Hold Mpur Man”' Iwas Written hy Maxine Alton, tho screen adaption being handled by Harold Shumate. ' Emmetti Flynn, who icansed a) world sensation with his picturizatioru of “A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court’‘ directed.