MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 162, 13 July 1935, Page 11

MAJESTIC THEATRE

| “BIOGRAPHY OF A BACHELOR GIRL.” | ‘’Biography of a Bachelor commencing to-day at the Majestic Theatre, is a most unusual and pleasing romance of the lighter type. The stoiy. which is that of the popular play “Biography,” is that of a girl art : st who returns from the gaf life of the Continent to the United States. Iler reputation has preceded her as an excel lent publicity agent, and she is besieged on her arrival by reporters and feature writers, as well as several old admirers. Among the many is the very businesslike and bespec tacled Richard Kurt (Robert Montgomery), editor of a weekly p-ipc. who has conceived the idea of purchasing the artist’s autobiography. After a long quest, he manages to get nor to listen to reason, chiefly because she has no money and is heavily in debt. Meanwhile Leander Nolan, a :au li late for the Senatorship of a southorL State, and the girl artist’s first lover, appears on the scene, accompanied by his fiancee and her father. He is determined to keep his name out of the biography, and varies this determination to such an extent that the girl artist is forced, not, however, unwillingly to flee with Kurt to the mountains. Nolan and party take up the chase, and in Kurt’s mountain cabin the last act of the drama unrolls. As Marion, the cause of all the trouble, Ann. Harding plays splendidly a role which is. entirely different from anything she has before attempted. Most of the comedy is provided by the dour and self-opinionated Nolan, acted by Edward Everett Horton, his fiancee, the pretty and sophisticated Una Merkel, and her exuberantly healthy father, Charles Richmond. An excellent programme is completed by newsreels, a travel featurette in technicolour, concerning life in Ireland and a very entertaining Charlie Chase corned v.