REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 1, 2 January 1943, Page 3

REGENT THEATRE

• 11 That most famous of all farces, J “Banana Ridge,” by Ben Travers, i author of numerous stage and film! successes screens at the Regent tre to-day, with Robertson Hare and Alfred Drayton in the stellar roles This popular team, ever dependable again extract the maximum £)f hurr|toe our from their lines. It will be remembered that the play, apart from its gay and diverting story, owed its success in no small measure to the expert fooling of these two. In this well made film version these funmakers are admirably supported by Isabel Jeans, Nova Pilbeam, Adele Dixon, Patrick Kinsella, and Valentine Dunn, with minor roles played by Stewart Rome, John Stuart, Wally Patch, and a score of other favourites of the screen. The story tells of the misadventures of two business partners who years before had each had an affaire with an attractive woman. Now happily married, the partners are more than surprised when one day Sue Long, the lady of their past, turns up with a twenty-year-old son, and she claims that either of the two partners is the father of the lad. The' hilarity of the situations that follow can well be imagined, and as each cf the partners makes every effort to extract themselves from the predicament each becomes more and more involved through their bungling schemes.