WAIPUKURAU THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 83, 24 April 1937, Page 3

WAIPUKURAU THEATRE

**My Man Godfrey" "My Man Godfrey1' is a brilliant modern romantic comedy, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard, showing thie • evening at the Waipukurau Theatre. The situations niount rapidly to a .pitch of gay humour, which keeps cliinbing the scale untii the contagious fun has reached an epidemic of laughter. The most earthbound pessimist will be a mirthbound optimist after seeing "My Man Godfrey." WiUiam Powell portrays tbe role of a butler who does his best to buttle, in spite- of bottles and battloaxes, for the nuttiest family in America. Carole Lombard, playing the part of the vounger daughter, falls in love with him and proposes inarriage. She just won't take "No" for an answer. Her sister is the sort oi girl who would stick pins into pg'ppies jiist to hear them'hoAvl. But wa.it unti] you'meet the rest of ths family. The mother of the menage is a bit baimy and her father ie slightly dizzy from trying to straighten out all the meinbers of his household. Howovor, they 're all' very nice people. You tnust come over and see thern in "My. Man Godfrey." Besides tho stars there are Alico Brady, Gail Patrick, Jean Dixon, Eugene Pallette, Alan Mowbray, Mischa Auer and Robert Ligh . Seats may be reserved at Hawke 's, phone 283 "Naughty Marietta" Returntng. The screen 's fif-st great musical adventure story "Naughtv Marietta" comes to the Waipukurau Theatre for a return screening on Tuesday' ' next Joanette McDpnald and Nelson Eddy in a glorious pageant of drama, nurth and melody. Seats may be ' reserved at Hawke'a, phon® 283.