“I LOVE THAT MAN.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 945, 15 December 1933, Page 3

“I LOVE THAT MAN.”

Nancy Carroll and Edmund Lowe in Drama. “ College Humour ” and supporting programme will be shown finally tonight at the Theatre Royal. " I Love That Man ” is the intriguing title of the fast-moving romantic drama, which will begin at the Theatre Royal to-morrow. Edmund Lowe, Nancy Carroll, Robert Armstrong, Lew Cody, Warren Hymer and Dorothy Burgess are the principal players in this entertaining story of a woman’s <?evotion. The action centres around Lowe and Nancy Carroll, a strange pair, bound together by a curious emotional tie. Lowe is a “ confidence man,” a shrewd " crook ” who finds no- greater pleasure in life than separating an unwary victim from his money. Nancy Carroll is a girl of good breeding, who knows the moment she meets Lowe that he is the Suddenly, without understanding how, Lowe finds himself in a legitimate business venture, earning more money by legal methods than he had ever done by illegal ones. Unexpectedly, a pair of “ crooks ” with whom he was formerly associated? drift into the scene, demand money out of which Lowe had once swindled them, and, at the point of guns, force both of them to participate in a daring bank robbery. There is a breathless climax. “ I Love That Man ” is both refreshing and funny, many laughs resulting from the exchanges between the “ confidence man ” who knows how to handle women and the woman who handles the “ confidence man.” “ I Love That Man ” has many superb

characterisations, not the least of which is that of “Brains” Stanley by Lowe. He can sell anybody anything, but he eventually sells himself into an engrossing love affair.