WAIPAWA REGENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 21, 18 October 1937, Page 10

WAIPAWA REGENT

"PICOADILLY JIM" TO-NIGHT Hollywood's adaptation of the P. G. Wodehouse comedy, "Piccadilly Jim," will bring an upheaval of hilarity to the Waipawa Eegent Theatre to-night. An excellent all-star cast adds to the merits of the story itself. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has taken Wodehouse at his face value and .it proves to be a gold mine of mirth. They give his original story visible and audible life, but otherwise it is unchanged. Robert Montgomery is excellent in the title role. Madge EVans is a lovtdy lady opposite him and Frank Morgan appears as his father, tin actor in love with a woman of high social station in London. Billie Burke, widow of Florenz Ziegfeld, makes her first screen appearance under her new M-G-M contract and plays a truly delightful role. Eric Blore and others in the cast keep up the pace. The story carries from London to New York via a trans-Atlantic luxury liner, with Wodehouse comedy and romance evident at every turn. Montgomery plays the part of a young caricaturist, who uuwittiugly lampoons the family of the girl he loves, in a series of cartoons that affiuse the world. The ensuing complications provide the vein of humour which has distinguished Wodehouse in the field of letters and now provide a wealtb of laughter for the world oii the screen