BARNES ON TOP.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 16

BARNES ON TOP.

Barry K. Barnes, the talented British actor, who was in New Zealand with the Margaret Rawlings company playing "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and "Happy and Glorious," is fast becoming one of Britain's best-known picture stars. He has starred in four British films in the short space; of eighteen months—"The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel," "Who Goes Next?" "This Man is News," and "Prison Without Bars." He is also the star of a. recently-made comedy, "You're the Doctor," in which Googie Withers gets her first romantic straight part as distinct from her usual wise-cracking comedy roles. One of the high, lights of the film is where Mr. Barnes, being mistaken for a doctor, has to'lecture to a hall full of women on fitness—a subject of which he knows absolutely nothing. It promises to be a stirring and amusing series of adventures, in which Gus McNaughton, grand character actor, figures as a poacher. Barry Barnes also plays in the/Ware Case" with Cliye Brook playing the role made famous by the late Sir Gerald dv Maurier, and Jane Baxter providing feminine interest, with Glen Alyn.