JOYOUS MUSICAL COMEDY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 419, 10 November 1930, Page 11

JOYOUS MUSICAL COMEDY

“SO LONG LETTY” AT REGENT Comedy queen of the English stage and screen, Charlotte Greenwood is starred in one of the greatest of all musical comedies that have been put on the all-talking screen—“So Long Letty,” which opened at the Regent on Saturday. The name of Charlotte Greenwood and the fame of the comedy are household words throughout England and America. For fifteen years the comedienne has brought laughter to millions, and now Wanganui has the opportunity of seeing the musical comedy with Charlotte Greenwood at its head and masterly direction behind it. The story is hilarious and starts out with the arrival of Uncle Claude, played by Claude Gillingwater, and his two flapper granddaughters, Helen Foster and Marion Byron, at a beach hotel for what Uncle Claude believes will be a rest. It is anything but that, because he falls into the clutches of the beauty parlor expert, Letty, and the fresh Grant Withers, hotel “contract and personality’’ man a swimming instructor, Harry Gribbon, and a composer, Hallam Cooley. Life is just a riot after that, including a cabinet bath administered to Uncle Claude by Letty. Lloyd Bacon directed the picture. In “Young Nowheres, ” with Richard Barthelmess, Bert Roach gave a priceless impersonation of an inebriated gentleman. Everybody who sees this picture chuckles over his performance. In “The Time, the Place and the Girl’’ he also distinguished himself in a comedy role. And now his performance hi “So Long Letty’’ tops them all. It is a downing treat.