MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20234, 12 May 1931, Page 12

MAJESTIC THEATRE.

"THOSE THREE FRENCH GIRLS." "Those Three French Girls," at the Majestic Theatre this week, is a really riotous comedy. The story is by P. G. Wodehouse, whose humorous stories have won world-wide applause, but there is in this film less of his finer comic vein than of the element of his stories which depends on its appeal for high-spirited practical joking. Although the film is at times highly amusing, it is certainly not. more so than a number of other films that have come to Christchurch recently. Reginald Qenny, in the leading role, appears surprisingly enough as the gay young nephew of a wealthy English peer, and takes the part very well. His is a comparatively fluiet part, though at times really comic, compared with that of his two companions, Cliff Edwards and Edward Brophy, who appear as American ex-soldiers baok In Paris for a spree. The three girls are packed full of fun, and Fifl Dorsay, who has already made herself well known for her attractive manner, is outstanding among them. The story runs from a gay party in which the girls thr.qw all kinds of objects out of the window; a French gaol where they are held tot creating a disturbance, a chateau where they eat and drink heartily; and a costumier's shop obtigingly provided by the wealthy uncle, to a wedding where the nephew steals his uncle's bride at the very last moment. There is a great deal of highspirited fooling in their antics in gaol before they manage to escape, more when they take shelter from the rain in a barn, and the girl* re-clothe themselves in horse blankets, while the final scenes are the best of the lot.