EXPLANATIONS NEEDED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 18 (Supplement)

EXPLANATIONS NEEDED

GENE GERRARD AT MAJESTIC. k “LET ME EXPLAIN, DEAR.” If you have ever tried to explain away a “night-out” to an intractable wif® you'll know now George (Gene Gerrard) felt when a beautitul blonde vamp, and a £lOOO necklace were added to the list of things needing explanations. Returning in the early hours George encounters an irate An gela to whom he explains he spent the night with, Cyril Merryweather, a sculptor and next-door neighbour, but the necklace which he nad pocketed for safety the night before is not so easily explained. He presents it to his wife’ but on the arrival of the vamp, whom he introduces as Merryweather’s 4 ‘wife,” he learns the necklace is the property of a Rajah and had only been lent her bv the boy friend. The hilarious efforts of George to get back that necklace from ms wife without giving the game away provide endless amusement and the complications which set in thick and fast add considerably to the laughter propensities with which 14 Let Me Explain Dear abounds.

Gene Gerrard, the brilliant and versatile star-director of “Let Me Explain Dear.” which will commence at the Majestic Theatre to-day, heads an •utstanding cast which includes the

inimitable Claude Hulbert, as Cyril, the sculptor; Jane Carr, a lissom anl eharming vamp “find;” Viola Lyel, as “the wife,” and Ajny Veness, the “battle-cruiser” of “My Wife’s Family” fame, as a maiden aunt.

Tn “Wild Horse Mesa,” coming to the Majestic next Wednesday, film fans will have a breath of the great open •paces of the West, just as pictured by Zane Grey in his well-known romance of the uplands. This can be recommended as excellent entertainment of it class.

The novel expedient of marrying off til the eligible young ladies in his sirde to his friends in order to outwit his grandmother, who has offered him the choice between marrying and having his allowance stopped is adopted by the principal figure in “Wedding Rehearsal,” the British farce which heads next Saturday’s bill-o-fare at the Majestice Theatre. In this development an important figure is Miss Hutchison, a self-effacing young lady woh has long worshipped him from afar. With Roland Young, as irresistibly droll as ever, in the part of Lord Buckminster, the smart dialogue of Arthur Wimpertis is heard to excellent effect, the other players admirably following his lead. George Grossmith is in fine fettle as the pompous Lord Stokeshiro, father of the twins, and Lady Tree is his wife. Kate Cutler plays Lord Buekminister’s grandmother, and Wendy Barrie and Joan Gardner are the twins. The production is excellent entertainment all through, and there are ‘some beautiful and impressive scenes, outstanding among the latter being the changing of the guard at St. James’ Palace.