ROMANTIC COMEDY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 250, 21 October 1937, Page 3

ROMANTIC COMEDY

‘LOVE IN A BUNGALOW.” Romantic comedy flits in the door and laughter floats out the windows of the Cupid-managed menage in Universal’s “Love in a Bungalow,” which opens at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday of next week, with Nan Grey and Kent Taylor in the roles of modern sweethearts. Beautiful blonde Nan Grey portrays the hostess of a model home and Kent Taylor is seen as a super-salesman out of a job. One morning when she comes to work, Nan finds Taylor comfortably reclining in the best bedroom of the model house. The young man is brazen, but has a breezy charm and a disarming wit. Nan finds herself forgetting to be angry. In fact, she gets his breakfast. The two become fast friends, and one evening, just as a lark, they enter a radio contest. Five thousand dollars is to be given to the young married couple writing the best letter telling why they consider themselves the world’s happiest husband and wife. The fireworks begin when they are awarded first prize. Their letter had declared they were married and possessed a house and two children. The prize donor arrives in person to discover how happy they are. The climax of the film revolves about the attempts of the “happy couple” to get themselves out of their predicament. Nan Grey and Kent Taylor, are ably supported by a cast which includes Richard Carle, Hobart Cavanaugh, Jack Smart, Minerva Urecal, Margaret Me Wade, and Louise Beavers. “Wee Willie Winkie.” Kipling’s colourful characters live on adventure’s frontier in the 20th. Century-Fox picturisation of his famed “Wee Willie Winkie,” with Shirley Temple and Victor McLaglen in the starring roles. From the heart of mighty India, where all the world is wild and strange, where the British Raj ends at Khyber Pass, comes this adventure of the Scottish Highlanders in action and of the little girl who won the right to wear their plaid. The most spectacular production in which Shirley has yet appeared, “Wee Willie Winkle,” gives Victor McLaglen a powerful role as a fearless fighter and provides splendid opportunities to C. Aubrey Smith, June Lang, Michael Whalen, Cesar Romero, Constance Collier, and young Douglas Scott. Sonja Hcnie Works. The matter of being acknowledged leader in the art of the ice ballet, although it made possible Sonja Henle's rise to stardom, is not an unmixed blessing in the pretty Norse girl’s cinema career. Because she is without a peer, she has to work a lot harder than would another player called upon to perform a dramatic role which also involved a form of the dance. Whenever a screen drama requires that the star perform a diillcult and strenuous task, such as a complicated dance, it is not infrequent for a double to be substituted for long shots. Thus the star is spared some of the hardship, of the entertainment role. In Sanjo's case, however, that cannot be done, because her championship form, now so widely known to a huge film public, is beyond duplication by anyone else. Lack of a substitute to shoulder some of the work is not the only factor contributing to make Sonja Henie’s day a long and arduous one during production. She has brought to Hollywood an art unique in motion picture entertainment and upon her falls much of the burden of directorial preparation. Sonja continually collaborated with Harry Losee, the dance director of “Thin Ice,” in planning the spectacular ice ballet numbers for that 20th. Century-Fox production and supervised the rehearsals of the troupe of dancers who supported her.