SPARKLING COMEDY-ROMANCE

Evening Star, Issue 22142, 24 September 1935, Page 6

SPARKLING COMEDY-ROMANCE

OPENS AT MAYFAIR TO-MORROW ' Transatlantic Merry-go-round,’ the sparkling new comedy-drama with melody, mystery, and romance, staged aboard a palatial acean, liner, will come to the Mayfair to-morrow. A great cast of screen and radio stars is headed by Jack Benny, _ Nancy Carroll, Gene Raymond, Mitzi Green in her first grown-up role, Frank Parker, the Boswell sisters, Patsy Kelly, Jean Sargent, and Jimmy Grier and his orchestra. Benny’s famous satire, ‘ Grind Hotel,’ is said to bo a high point of tho programme. Tho passengers aboard the liner include Sydney Howard, who is known as England’s Chaplin, playing a happy, harmless drunk; Sid Silvern as Raymond’s comic confederate working as a steward; Sidney Blackmer as Lee Bother, a scoundrelly Broadway racketeer who is pursuing Sally; Shirley Grey, as a married woman who is .infatuated with Lother; Ralph Homan as her suspicious husband; and William Boyd as an escaped gunman who is stowing away aboard the liner; The mystery develops when Lother is found dead in Sally’s cabin. Suspicion falls on each in turn, and it takes a second murder to solve the first. Jour tuneful song hits are introduced in the production. Sidney Clare and Richard Whiting wrote ‘ It Was Sweet of \ou, ‘ Rock and Roll ’ and ‘ Oh, Leo;’ and Mercer and Malnick contributed If i Had a Million Dollars.’