REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1078, 16 September 1930, Page 15

REGENT

“CAUGHT SHORT” The names of Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd are so often mentioned in the field of comedy that sometimes one overlooks the fact that two very clever women artists are rapidly usurping places at tho very top of the cinema ladder. At the Regent Theatre Marie Dressier and Polly Moran again demonstrated that they are supreme in their field, as the only feminine comedy team. “Caught Short,” their current MetroGold wyn-Mayer talking picture, is an exceedingly deft and very laughable comedy based on tho late lamented stock market crash in America. The author has drawn a very natural picture of two boardinghousekeepers of Washington Square. New York, who are pulled into the imbroglio of Wall Street. And, of course, when too much prosperity splits the old friends it also raises trouble with the budding romance of Marie’s daughter, Anita Page, and Polly’s son, Charles Morton. Incidentally, these two make an exceedingly attractive couple. It is the first time they have appeared together. A lot of laughs are furnished by the boardinghouse atmosphere of the piece, principally through the efforts of those threo high-class comedians, T. Roy Barnes, Herbert Prior and Edward Dillon. Several splendid talkie shorts are also being shown.