GRAND THEATRE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 152, 30 June 1932, Page 11

GRAND THEATRE.

“I LIKE YOUR NERVE.” For those who like screen action fast and furious, dialogue sparkling, players enthusiastic, and the story a refreshing romance of youth, then the motion picture, “I Like Your Nerve,’’ which is now at the Grand Theatre, is recommended. “I Like Your Nerve” is a delightful light-comedy romance, and a welcome relief from the sordid, sex-ridden, dramatic faro that has too often been offered in the past. Dougglas Fairbanks junr., who is starred with Loretta Young as the lead, has never appeared to better advantage. In type of story, “I Like Your Nerve” must inevitably be compared by the older theatre-goers with “Hawthorne of thc U.5.A.,” “The Americano,” and other pictures i a which Douglas Fairbanks senr. won his greatest fame. Briefly, it is the brisk recital of the adventures that befall a wealthy younq man who gets kicked out of one Central American country after another—due to his disregard for the laws that forbid fa-st motoring—and who finally becomes involved in a near-revolution. <‘in ardent love affair, a kidnapping of a girl ol his choice, and finally a coup whereby he wins the girl, saves her father, the thwarts the villain of the pieqe. Throughout the picture Fairbanks carries on to the fullest limit of speed and traditional screen tempo of the Fairbanks family. This pace never lags, one reason being perhaps that ”1 Like Your Nerve” was di reefed by William McGann, who for several years was chief cameraman for tho older Fairbanks. The story is an original for the screen written by Roland Pertwee, noted English short story writer-uovelits and playwright, who is one ol rhe newest, additions to