"THERE YOU ARE!"

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19150, 5 November 1927, Page 26

"THERE YOU ARE!"

"WEDDING BILLS." CKYSTAL P ALACK. MONDAY.' Two pictures, both of an amusing nature, grace next week's programme at Crystal Palace Theatre, the one "There You Are," the other "Wedding Bills," the rude awakening of love's young dream. Both arc, enormously funny, more or less delightfully impossible, cheerfully romantic, and together with gazettes, of more than ordinary interest, and 2. humorously typical programme of music by the Symphony Orchestra, the bill will surely be accepted as onu of the most enjoyable presented there for some time. In "There You Are," Conrad Nagel disports himself in playful vein for the amusement and edification of the office staff, to the displeasure of the chief, and to the immense gratification of the chief's doting daughter. George is first cousin to Willy the Worm, a screen personality who shone at another theatre this week, but George was 'fortunate in possessing a light o' love with a mind of her own. The lady, with a distressing lack of feminine reticence, roundly abused George for h.i» lamentable" characteristics', and eventually persuaded him to elope with her. The unhappy George, waiting for. his lady, on the platform, with misguided charity holds a lady's baby while she (the lady) goes in search of a porter or something.' Comes Joan, with baleful eye; George's explanations are but coldly received; complications crowd thick upon them "at the-hotel,'where they register; detectives and large policemen, seeking a kidnapper, Bppear like blots on the horizon; the irate papa, breathing fire, swoops down upon them; everybody engages in fisticuffs, advice, orders. It is as complicated as the pattern on a salver, and a lot more foolish.

Wedding bills are 'lie alarm clocks to love's young dream. Raymond Griffith, complete and replete with high hat, cane, and gloves, thought Jfe'd give it a chance, but he had not gone far when he fonnd out that when troubles come they come not singly but in battalions. " "Wedding Bills" is a farce-comedy of discreet wit and polite thrills —and Raymond Griffith, who invests . the frothy story with au atmosphere of droll respectability and harassed romance, scores the triumph of his career. , Ann Sheridan is the' lady, who, like » North-West Mounted policeman, gets her man. The Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Mr Alfred Buuz, will play the following programme: Overture, "Wedding Pete" (Krein); "Cosi Pan Tutti," "Tat for Tat" (Mozart). "On the Journey" (Klughardt), "May Time" (Klose). "Springtime" (Grimaldi), "Wedding Bells" (Thurban). "La I'atoma" (Yradicr), "Dream Girl" (Low), "Love is Just Heaven" (Bryan), "'The Now World" (Dvorak), 'That's My Baby" (Donaldson). The box plans for this season are at The Bristol Piano Company,' where seaU may be reserved.