MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 244, 15 October 1932, Page 11

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“AREN’T WE ALL?” OPENING With the story by a master of quick and witty dialogue, Frederick Lonsdale, the actors all from Britain, and with the snappiness and zest of American direction, “Aren’t We AH'?” opens at the Majestic to-day. Frederick Lonsdale is generally acknowledged to be the wittiest of British dramatists, and “Aren’t We All?” is one of his greatest stage triumphs. The screen adaptation scintillates with the author’s brilliant dialogue, and it is acted by a magnificent all-star cast, while Harry Lachman’s direction is polished and artistic. Gertrude Lawrence, brilliant revue and stage star, heads the cast of “Aren’t We All ” and she has rarely been seen to greater advantage. She plays Margot, the newly-married wife of the Hon. Willie Tatham (Owen Nares). The two are spending an idyllic honeymoon in the South of France, when Willie is recalled to London because his gay, philandering father, Lord Grenham (Hugh Wakefield), has been neglecting business to flirt w r ith chorus girls and take dancing lessons. Left alone, Margot gets so bored that she drifts into a flirtation with a fascinating Austrian, Karl Von der Heyde (Harold Huth). Meanwhile Willie gets involved in an innocent flirtation with one of his father’s girl friends; Margot returns home to find him kissing her. There are some amusing complications before Margot and Willie are happily reconciled. Marie Lohr, Audrey Mather, Emily Fitzroy, Renee Gadd and Rita Page are other members of the exceptionally fine cast of “Aren’t We All?”