AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 January 1932, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

THE REGENT.

“MY WIFE’S FAMILY.”

Described as the funniest farce comedy ever produced, “My Wife’s family,” a British International Picture, comes to the Regent Theatre to-day, when it will be shown at the matinee and evening performances. A talented cast is headed by Gene Gcrrard, nith Amy Vcness as something special in the way of a mother-in-law. The plot is concerned with the feud between .lack Gay and his interfering mother-in-law —-in face Arabella is the most complete mother-in-law ever achieved on stage or screen. She is suspicious, interfering, sarcastic, narrow-minded, bossy and unbeautiful. She says and does all the things that have made mother-in-laws a stock joke. Her son-in-law, however, after his efforts to appease her ill-nature have failed and she has completely destroyed the happiness of his home, finally retaliates and devises terrible epithets for her. loi the hilarious happenings of the comedy the Elstree art department has provided a beautiful garden setting. Trim green lawns, intersected by crazy paving, form an elegant design round a central arrangement of flower beds. These were composed of real soil, with a finoc show of blooming geraniums and rose trees. A rockery blazing with blossoms and overgrown with creeping nasturtiums surrounds an ornamental pool in which ducks disported themselves with much preening of feathers and loud quacks. A rustic summerhouse with “roses round the door and thatched roof, is the chief feature of the film’s background, and ish finally blown up with its sole occupant, a babv grand. Enclosing the garden on three sides is a fine box hedge, trimmed into archways ten feet m height, while the fourth wall is of brick shaded by leafy trees. Seats may be reserved at Vare’s, or ring Theatre, ’phone 2303. - ■ COSY THEATRE. “ONCE A GENTLEMAN.” Keen comedy, sprightly, well-spoken dialogue', and a story that is novel and clever, combine it is said, to make “Once a Gentleman,” which comes to the Cosy to-day, when it will be shown at matinee and evening performances, one of the gayest and most sparkling talkies produced this season. The leading players, Edward Everett Horton and Lois Wilson, arc supported by a talented cast. In “Once a Gentleman” Horton appears at his best m the role of a valet whose employer gives him a month off to play gentleman. Through mistaken identity, he becomes a guest at a fashionable Long Island home, and a popular figure at his employer’s club. He makes a fortune on a stock market tip, proposes marriage to the pretty housekeeper, loses his bankroll, and finally is shown up as an impostor. His employer rescues him, and his adventure as a gentleman is over, but when he returns to his old post, lie does not go back alone. Brimful of novel situations, with a rapid fire succession of hearty laughs, smart dialogue and sumptuous settings, “Once a Gentleman” provides gieat entertainment for every member of the family. An all-star cast includes Lois Wilson, King Baggot, Francis X. Bushman, Senr., George Fawcett and others. Seats may be reserved at Nave’s, or ring Theatre, ’phone 12S8.