REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 300, 18 December 1937, Page 11

REGENT THEATRE

“EASY LIVING* A comedy which ranks among th« smartest pictures of the year bring.' Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, and Ra> Milland tp the Regent Theatre to-da> in the highly-entertaining “Easy Living.” “Easy Living” is another o£ those smart, slightly bantering “sophisticated” comedies. The story concerns a stenographer, played by Miss Arthur, who suddenly and unexpectedly gets a sable coat valued at 50,000 dollars and then has to live up to it. Like the man in Mark Twain's story who found he did not need any money as long as he had a cheque for a million pounds. Miss Arthur finds the town wide open to her. Hotels, fashionable shops, and dealers in expensive cars shower her with gifts. She becomes the talk of the town. All doors are open to her. There is only one drawback—she has not the money with which to buy herself a meal. She tries to sneak a meal and meets Milland, a millionaire play-boy trying to make a Jiving on his own as a bus boy. He is the ion of Arnold, the man who unwittingly bestowed the coat on Miss Arthur, and with whom her name becomes linked as an aftermatl* It is love at first sight. The rest of the story is a fast-moving, racy, and breezy account of how Miss Arthur’s coat caused a Wall Street crisis, almost caused a shake-up in the Police Department, brought together a man and wife who quarrelled for the first time, and were seeking a divorce, saved a hotel from bankruptcy, and won Miss Arthur a husband. The splendid east incldes Luis Alberni, Mary Nash, and a score of other well-known character and featured players, all of whom perform splendidly in this outstanding picture.