MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 178, 31 July 1933, Page 12

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“A BEDTIME STORY,” Maurice Chevalier, Baby Leroy and Henel Twelvetrees make a charming trio in Paramount’s picture “A Bedtime Story,” now showing at the Majestic. Saturday night’s audience laughed merrily at the predicament or a gay bachelor, coining home to be married, suddenly finding himself possessed of a fine, chubby baby. “It came with the luggage,’’ was how the chauffeur put it. In fact the baby actually did come with the luggage, having been put in the car by an aged couple who were anxious to be rid of it. But would ask his fiancee to believe such a thing? Maurice Chevalier, as Count Reno, certainly asked his fiancee to accept the truth, hut, womanlike, she was suspicious from the start, and tacitly agreed with the Count’s churn that the baby could be nothing less than a “product of the bi.g game hunt” the count had just concluded in Africa. Complications naturally ensue when Renews friends learn of “Monsieur the Baby,” and an additional development concerns the arrival of Sally (Helen Twelvetrees'), a pretty American girl, to act as the baby’s nurse. Reno’s calculations that his fiancee will also fall in love with the child are sadly astray, and it is left to Sally to step into the breach. There is an excellent mixture of humour and

sympathy in the story, with the players working in happy concord to make an exceptionally entertaining picture. There are many jokes at the expense of Edward Everett Horton, who is as dryly amusing as ever in the part of Rene’s valet. Chevalier sings one or two catchy little songs in appropriate settings. The picture roaches an amusing climax when Chevalier takes baby, nurse, and valet to the chateau of his fiancee for the week-end. The developments hero almost lose him all, but he ultimately emerges with the baby and the nurse still in his possession, and the nurse no longer merely a nurse. Helen Twelvetrees plays the nurse; Edward Everett Horton the 1 valet, and Adrienne Ames one of Maurice’s former sweethearts. Baby Leroy is the youngster. The Majestic supporting programme is never poor. This week the supports include an aerial flight over the crater of Mt. Egmont, a scenic display no one should miss. A spectacular review of the oldest Scottish Regiment by His Majesty the King also makes a fine display. There is an amusing Max Sennett comedy to add to the delight of the evening. One of the best items in this programme was a short entitled ‘/Snow Birds,” depicting the greatest ski jumping in the world. There was a nameless thrill in every scene.