NEW DOUBLE BILL

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20274, 7 April 1934, Page 31 (Supplement)

NEW DOUBLE BILL

Theatre Royal Has Lupino Comedy and Drama.

The outstanding new double-feature bill at the Theatre Royal to-day is headed by the Stanley LupinoThelma Todd comedy, “ You Made Me Love You,” which has been screened with conspicuous success a i the Plaza during the past week. This bright show is supported by a drama, “ Ladies They Talk About,” starring Barbara Stanwyck. “ You Made Me Love You ” is a production which, by reason of Stanley Lupino’s drolleries and the supreme gaiety of its conception, defies all attempts at criticism. The story, an hilariously modern version of “ The Taming of the Shrew,” opens with the attempts of Tom Daly (Lupino), a song writer, and, incidentally, heartbreaker, to find the inevitable “ only girl in the world,” whom he has met in a traffic jam, and then lost again. In “ You Made Me Love You,” critics state, Thelma Todd has proved that her flair for comedy is supplemented by an indubitable capacity for amusing and that she is well worthy of team work with England’s cleverest and most popular comedian. There has been prison pictures before, but “ Ladies They Talk About ” is the first to reveal life in the women’s section in all its interesting phases. The prison depicted in Barbara Stanwyck’s picture is the San Quentin penitentiary of California. The story presents the actual experiences of the co-author, Dorothy Mackaye, the actress, who was sentenced to San Quentin after the mysterious death of her husband a few years ago. Box plans at the D.I.C.