WAIPAWA REGENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 20, 16 October 1937, Page 9

WAIPAWA REGENT

"PICCADILLY JIM" TO-NTGHT , AND MONDAY. Hollywood's adaptation of the P. .G. Wodehouse comedy, "Piccadilly Jim,'' Will bring an upheavai of hilarity to thfe Waipawa Regent Theatre to-night and Monday. An excellent all-star eaefc adda to the merita of the story itsfelL Metro-GoldwymMayer has takeil .VVodfehouse at his face value and it provefe io be a goid miiie of mirth. They give his original sfory visible and audible life, but otherwise it is unchanged. Robert Montgomery is excellent in the title role. Madge EvanS ife a iov«Jy iady oppoaite him and Frank Morgan appears as his father, An actor in loVe with a woman of high Social station in Lottdon. Billie Burke, vvidow of Florenz Ziegfeld, makes her first screen appearance undef her new M-G-M contract and plays a truly delightful role. Erie Blore and others in the cafet keep Up the pace. The story carries from London to New York via a trans-Atlantio iuxury liner, with Wodehouse comedy and romanoe evident at every turn. Montgomery plays tho part of a young caricaturist, who Unwittingly lampdons the family of the girl he loves, in a series b£ cartoons that amuse the world. The ensuing complications promde the- vein of humour whichi has distinguished Wodehouse in the field of letters and now provide a wealth of laughter for the world on the screen.