AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19151, 7 November 1927, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

" THERE YOU ARE ! "

. "WEDDING BILLS." CRYSTAL PALACE, TO-DAY. Two pictures, both of an amusing nature, grace this 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 are enormously funny, more or less delightfully impossible, cheerfully romantic, and . together -with gazettes, of more than ordinary interest, and a humorously typical programme of music by tho Symphony Orchestra, the bill will surely be accepted as one of tho most eu.joyable 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 Georgo was fortunate in possessing a light o'love with a mind of herown. The lady, with' r a distressing lack of feminine reticence, roundly abused George. ' for his 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 aro but coldly, received; complications crowd thick upon them at the hotel, where they register; detectives and large policemen, seeking a kidnapper, appear 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 tho pattern on a salver, and a lot more foolish. . Wedding bills are the alarm clocks to love's young dream. Raymond Griffith, complete and replete with high hat, cane, and gloves, thought he'd givo it 3 chance, but he had not gone far when he found out that when troubles come they come not singly j but iu battalions. "Wedding Bills" is a faree-comedy of discreet wit and polite thrills—and Raymond Griffith, who invests the frothy story with an atmosphere of droll respectability and harassed romance, scores tho triumph of his career. Ann Sheridan is the lady, who, like a North-West Mounted policeman, gets her man.

The Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Mr Alfred Bum, will play the following programme: Overture, "Wedding Fete" (Krein); "Cosi Van Tutti," "Tit for Tat" (Mozart), "On the Journey" (Klughardt),' "May Time" (Klose), "Springtimo" (Grimaldi), "Wedding Bells" (Thurbau), "La Paloma" (Yradier), "Dream Girl" (Low), "Love is .Tust Heaven" (Bryan), "The Now World" (Dvorak), 'That's My Baby" (Donaldson). The box plans for this season aro at. The Bristol Piano Company, where scats may be reserved.