PLAZA THEATRE,

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 138, 8 December 1938, Page 14

PLAZA THEATRE,

"I'll Give a Million."

Orchids, yachts, mansions—after all, what do they mean?—if it is only orchids, yachts and mansions the girls are after! So a debonair millionaire forgets his million and goes looking for a girl who is looking only for love. In this vein, "I'll" Give a Million," which opens tomorrow at the Plaza Theatre, becomes one of the gayest, most hilarious romances to come from Hollywood. Romantic Warner Baxter, glamorous Marjorie Weaver, Peter Lorre^ the erstwhile menace Mr. Moto, in a riotously funny characterisation; beloved Jean Hersholt; that master of facial facility, John Carradine; exciting Lynn Bari; Fritz Feld in the best thing he has done since the Pied Piper in Rheinhardt's "The Miracle." That is some of the cast which adds up to hundreds — and introduces Shorty, a clever scenestealing simian. Only the keen mind of smart writers could logically tie up the glamour of high society, and the idea of a whole town in Southern France suddenly inaugurating kindness to tramps—just because Warner Baxter, seeking refuge from fairweather pals, says he will give a millions francs for a real friend. Baxter jumps from his palatial yacht to save Peter Lorre from drowning. The vessel sails on and Warner changes clothes with the rescued tramp. Lorre sallies forth the next day with his pockets full of French bank-notes. From this point on the solicitude for tramps becomes epidemic. Baxter finds his way to a circus where he meets Marjorie Weaver and a hectic romance reaches an astonishing conclusion. "I'll Give a Million," personally supervised by Darryl F. Zanuck was directed by Walter Lang and Kenneth Macgowan as associate producer. The screen play was prepared by Boris Ingster and Milton Sperling.