AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 January 1932, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

COSY THEATRE. “ONCE A GENTLEMAN.” “Onc-e a Gentleman,” is to be shown finally at the Cosy Theatre to-night. Reserves at Varc’s, ’phone lM.'i.’J. ‘‘LONELY WIVES.” •‘Lonely Wives,” a Patlic comedy based upon a play by Walter De Leon, heads the new programme to be screened at the Cosy Theatre to-morrow evening. The picture is presented by an impressive east and is rated -high as a laugh-provoker. Edward Everett Horton fills the jirincipal role, Esther Ralston, blonde comedienne, appears as his wife, while Laura La Plante fills another featured role. Patsy Ruth Miller will be seen as Horton’s vivacious and clever secretary, while Maude Eburne, stage actress, has an hilarious role as the mother-in-law. Spencer Charters, who will be remembered for - his work in ‘‘Whoopee,” has a strong 1 role. Georgette Rhodes also is in the 1

cast. Ihc plot ot the comedy develops a series of hilarious complications. To fool his prying mother-in-law and incidentally enable him to keep an appointment with a charming young client seeking a divorce, a prominent attorney induces a vaudeville impersonator tb take his place for one evening. Unfortunately that is the evening his wife selects to surprise him by an earlier return than was expected. Still more unfortunately, it develops that his young client is the wife of the vaudeville impersonator. The errant husband does not return until morning, and then he is closely trailed by

the young client. From this point on wards, affairs take a good deal oi straightening out. Seats may be re served at Fare’s, ’phone 1333.

THE REGENT. “MY WIFE’S FAMILY.” The uproariously funny comedy, ‘‘My Wife’s Family” which continues to attract big audiences to the Regent Theatre, is to be shown agapi at matinee and evening performances today and finally to-morrow. It is impossible to resist the laughter provoking quality of “My Wife’s Family.” There are no highbrow pretensions of any kind about this frankly farcical comedy, but its humour is of a compelling kind that admits of no denial. At times the fun is very broad, but no one is likely to call it objectionable. Gene Gerrard as Jack Gay, Amy Veness as Arabella, the trouble-making mother-in-law who fioally makes so much trouble for herself, Jimmy Godden as Doc. Knott and Charles Paton as Noah Nagg are all delightful in their various and contrasting ways. The cast

as a whole is a strong one. No one who can enjoy a really funny comedy should muss seeing “My Wife’s Family.” For the hilarious h’appen-

iiigs of the comedy tho 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 (lower beds. These were composed of real soil, and a fine show of blooming geraniums and rose trees. A rockery blazing with blossoms and 1 overgrown with creeping nasturtiums surrounds an ornamental pool in which ducks disported themselves with much ' preening of feathers and loud quacks. '

1_ A rustic summerhouse with “roses T round the door.. and thatched roof, is tho chief feature of the film’s background, and is finally blown up with its sole occupant, a baby grand. Enclosing the garden on three sides is a fine box hedge', trimmed into archways ten feet in height, while the fourth wall is of brick shaded by leafy trees. ’ Seats may be reserved at Fare’s, or ring Theatre, ’phono 2303.