ROMANCE IN DEBT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22514, 23 September 1938, Page 7

ROMANCE IN DEBT

What to do when a host of creditors threatens to take the very clothes from an orphaned girl’s back, and stripping her palatial home of all its furniture, forms the opening situation of “She’s Got Everything,” RKO Radio’s sparkling romantic comedy with Ann Sothern and Gene Raymond, which is coming to the Crystal Palace. The film brings these two top favourites together for the fifth time, and wfith its gay events and stormy romance is said to be the most entertaining picture they have appeared in. The plot deals with the creditors’ plan to finance the society girl in a campaign to marry a rich South American, which they feel will enable them to get their money back. However, the girl rejects the scheme, deciding to get a job instead, and she becomes secretary to a young millionaire coffee importer. However, the creditors continue their campaign, and the results involve the girl and the millionaire in a series of' hilarious complications. With both stars given plenty of opportunities for the swift comedy that has won them high popularity in their previous films, and with the aid of a distinguished supporting cast, “She’s Got Everything” promises excellent entertainment.

Helen Broderick and Victor Moore, two of the best-known comedians on the screen to-day, have important roles in tangling up the romance of the picture, andmpre laughs are-added

Ann Sothern in “She’s Got Everything”

by such rioted comedians as Billy Gilbert, Parkyakarkus, William Brisbane, and Solly Ward. The action takes place in elaborate settings, which include a big Long Island home, a swank New York apartment, a modernistic office suite, and a big resort hotel. Various ingenious devices have been introduced into the story to. -bring about unexpected results. Moore’s sidesplitting efforts to have a professional hypnotist mesmerise Arm Sothern, and its unforeseen outcome, and an artificial traffic jam. when Raymond uses scores of his coffee trucks to block the heroine’s attempted escape, are among the many uproarious situations of the film, Helen Broderick’s match-making endeavours, and the creditors’ dogged perseverance in trying to get their money back, also make for some of the offering’s funniest moments. Alec Craig, Jack Carson, Alan Bruce, and Richard vTucker have important supporting roles.

Spanky McFarland, who was retired from “Our Gang” comedies because be was getting too big, has been,brought back by M-G-M to take up his old place.

Isa. Miranda, recently dropped from the starring role in “Zaza,-” is to get another chance at Paramount. A story is'being specially written for her, end is . expected to be ready-in' weeks.