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THE REGENT THEATRE. ”HIS DOUBLE LIFE” TO-DAY. ‘‘His Double Life,” coming to the Regent to-day, has a lively theme, which sets off as comedy but broadens to farce. It is usually difficult to talk of death beds and funerals and provoke mirth. This film includes both in its opening scenes, and both are so faithfully reproduced that theirV damper on later mirth is never completely shaken off either by the brilliant subtlety and wit of dialogue or the hilarity generated by many comical and farcical situations. This is a pity, since Roland Young, one of the best comedians on the screen to-day, is seen in his best form. He plays the part of a world-famous painter whose identity becomes hopelessly entangled with*that of his butler. The butler dies, is held to be the famous painter, and as such is buried in Westminster Abbey—that was how the trouble started- Lilian Gish is charming in the role of a mat-ter-of-fact woman who “catches” the butler through a matrimonial agency. When the butler turns out to be the painter, when funerals and death beds become so entangled that arrival al the truth seems impossible, she retains her equanimity and her portrayal is such that she almost “steals the show.” This is better than ordinary fare.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 210, 5 September 1934, Page 9
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214PARAMOUNT WEEK Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 210, 5 September 1934, Page 9
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