DELIGHTFUL FILM.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 538, 22 August 1932, Page 3

DELIGHTFUL FILM.

“ Lovers Courageous ” Stars Robert Montgomery. Should a girl obey the dictates of her heart in her choice of a husband, or should she follow the advice of her parents and friends who desire that she should be married to a man of wealth and position? That is the problem dealt with in " Lovers Courageous ”, Frederick Lonsdale’s charming romance which commenced a return season at Everybody's Theatre to-day. “ Lovers Courageous ” is a delightful story in which two popular screen stars, Robert Montgomery and Madge Ewans, have the principal roles, with such well known players as Roland Young. Frederick Kerr, Beryl Mercer and Reginald Owen in the supporting cast. Robert Montgomery takes the role of a young man who bears the unromantic name of Willie Smith, but whose heart is yearning for romance. As a boy he shuns school lessons, and, lather than become a clerk in the post office, which is the career his stern father has .chosen for him, he clears out from home.. He drifts from place to place, and has a position in South Africa as a : obacconist’s assistant at £2 a week, when Mary (Madge Evans), the spoiled daughter of an admiral, crosses his path. The girl is engaged to a member of the English nobility, but a warm friendship develops between herself and the tobacconist’s assistant. For the first time in their lives the youngsters experience the thrills and pleasure of real romance, but their association is cut short when Mary is sent to England by her parents. She finds that the noble lord to whom she is to be married is absorbed in his ’unting and his 'ounds almost to the exclusion of everything else, and, discovering that Willie has arrived in England, she goes to him on the very day that she is to be married. Defying her parents, she marries him, fully aware that she is choosing a life of poverty because of her love. Gradually Hie resources of the young couple dwindle until the stage of actual starvation is reached, when the young man insists on his wife going back to her parents. Struggling on alone, he soon afterwards becomes a successful playwright, and the lovers are reunited. Box plans at The Bristol.