PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 59, 12 March 1935, Page 10

PLAZA THEATRE

jfr A CUP OF KINDNESS’’ Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn, with their associate author, Ben Travers, have established a definite reputation with their highly popular brand of farce-comedy, and 11 A Cup of Kindness,” their latest effort, which was again screened to a large and appreciative audience at the Plaza Theatre last night, is cast in the same happy, hilarious mould. Of their current vehicle it is to be noted that the theme — the snobbish conceit of suburbia —provides a rather more substantial groundwork on which to work. Full advantage is taken of this, not only in broadening the comedy held and giving the plot more body, but m sounding a more definite and more charming romantic note. The story, concerned with the enmity between two suburban families, is filled with complications which lead to riotous fua. with dialogue witty in the extreme. The snobbery of the suburbs has been a theme for many pens, but none cleverer than that of Ben Travers. The Tutts •consider the Ramsbottoms inferior beings and their reaction when one of the younger Tutts woos a girl of the Ramsbottom family leads to many complications which brings in their train happy laughter. The Tutts are represented by Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Claude Hulbert and Eva Moore, the Ramsbottoms by Robertson Hare. Marie Wright, Dorothy Hyson and Gordon James. Screenings will be repeated finally to-night. “Dangerous Comer” B'g names —Virginia Bruce, Conrad X’agpl. Melvyn Douglas and lan Keith, with Erin O’Brien-Moore, Henry Wadsworth and Betty Furness—are marquee stoplights for passersby when RKORadio’s “Dangerous Corner” takes over the screen, starting to-morrow at the Plaza Theatre. In this "Dangerous Corner’’ the cars that come careening along or moving at a slow, tantalising pace are human thoughts, and the clash is when other human beings demand the truth and prudence says “let sleeping dogs lie.” Adapted for the screen from the London and New York stage hit bv J. B. Priestley, “Dangerous Corner” is said to have retained a surprise plot structure held by many •critics to be as revolutionary as that of ‘ l Strange Interlude.”