ALL STAR CAST

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 97, 27 April 1939, Page 5

ALL STAR CAST

COMEDY AT PLAZA "THE YOUNG IN HEART" Starring Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, jun., and Paulette Goddard, “The Young in Heart” opens at the Plaza Theatre, on Friday of next week. Based on I. A. R. Wylie's “Saturday Evening Post" story, “The Gay Banditti," “The Young in Heart" tells the lovable, laughable story of the Carleton family, who live by their wits and their charm and can boast of having bean kicked out of o*ly the best places from the Riviera to London. There’s Father “Sahib” Carleton, an ex-actor, whose family loyally supports him in the preposterous myth that he is Colonel Carleton, late of the Bengal Lancers, and the role is made to order for Roland Young. There’s charming, twittering “Marmy," played to the life by Billie Burke. And there are the two chil-dren—George-Anne (Janet. Gaynor), who has become engaged to a sober, wealthy young Scot, who. sees through her family, and says so; and Richard (Fairbanks, jun.), who has hooked a girl rich enough to take care of the entire family for the rest of their lives. When the story opens the “Sahib's" insistence upon mixing brandy, sleight of hand and poker results in their being unceremoniously : evicted from their rich Riviera huntI ting ground. They head towards i England. But something will turn ■ up, they are certain: It does, in the ’ person of little Miss Fortune, whom I George-Anne discovers on the train. ‘This timid and fabulously wealthy old ! lady, who is spending her last days (touring the world, takes the family to her bosom. And what more fitting return could she make for their charmingly effortless efforts to gladden her last days than to make them her heirs? Everything seems perfect. But things begin to happen that surprise even the Carletons. For one things, they discover that they have hearts, and that hearts have a habit of getting in the way of schemes like theirs. After surprising developments the story ends on a tender note, with the daughter reunited with her young Scot; the son happy with a lovely young secretary, (Paulette Goddard) who has made him forget his search for an heiress.