OPERA HOUSE
The audience at the opera House to-day is sure to laugh loud al the antics of Charles Ruggles and Charlotte Greenwood, and sigh audibly at the love-making of Lynn Bari and Cornel Wylde in lhe new 20th Cen-tury-Fox film, “The Perfect Snob.” They will agree if was a perfectly (swell movie. In this unusual story, I lovely Lynn Bari goes to Honolulu iwith her mother, riotous Charlotte Greenwood, to land a wealthy and socially-prominent ho hand. She meets Alan Mowbray who, although many years her senior, fills her requirements. When Charlie Ruggles, her veterinarian-falhoi. learns of the impending engagement, he rushes to lhe romantic paradise io divert his daughter’s interest. To accomplish this .he hires handsome Cornel Wilde to break up lhe engagement. To tell how ihe climax v ork out would be to spoil your fun but if is tops in excitement and merriment. The associate feature is “Castle in the IJesert,” featuring “Charlie Chan.’’ Sidney Toler in this, Hie best of the series, gives a remarkable performance in th is thrill-packed my-fery-d ram a.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 307, 30 December 1942, Page 3
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