"SERVICE DE LUXE."

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1938, Page 5

"SERVICE DE LUXE."

Coming to the St. James.

Constance Bennett is starred in Universal's "Service De Luxe," which comes to the St. James Theatre next Thursday, and which introduces to motion picture audiences a screen newcomer, Vincent Price. Price is no stranger to Broadway, however. He gained a high reputation as an actor of exceeding merit through his twoyear performance of the role of Albert opposite Helen Hayes in "Victoria Regina." Price makes his cinema debut in a vehicle especially tailored for himself and Miss Bennett. "Service De Luxe" was designed to launch the new leading man under the best possible auspices. The picture casts him as a aaive, up-state boy who comes to New York trying to peddle tractor invention, and falling easily and quickly into the hands of designing women Miss Bennett will be seen as Dorothy Madison, head of the Dorothy Madison Service, a firm which performs all kinds of personal services for its clients. In supporting roles will be seen Charles Ruggles as an eccentric millionaire engineer whose hobby is cooking; Mischa Aver as a Russian chef who calls upon a ghostly line of noble ancestors ( for guidance in his culinary endeavours; Helen Broderick as Miss Bennett's hard-boiled friend and confidante, and Joy, Hodges as a giddy, man-crazy flapper who tries to marry every male who comes within reach of her arms.'The picture was directed by Rowland V. Lee, who made such hits as "The Robber Barons" and "Mother Carey's Chickens" within recent months, and who directed many of the hits of an earlier day, including "Three Musketeers," "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Cardinal Richelieu," and "One Rainy Afternoon."