WAIPUKURAU THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 24, 21 October 1937, Page 14

WAIPUKURAU THEATRE

"piccadilly jim" friday and saturday. "Piccadilly Jim," from the novel by P. G. Wodehouse, will fill the Waipukurau Theatre with laughter tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday. An excellent all-star cast adds to the merita of tho story itself. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has taken Wodehouse at his face vaiue and it proves to' be a gold mme of mirtb. They gave his original etory visible and audible life^ but otherwise it is unchanged. Robert Montgomery ia excellent in the title role. Madge Evans is a lovely lady opposite him and Frank Morgan appears as his father, an actor in love with a woman of high social station in London. Billio Burke, widow of Florenz Ziegfeld, plays a truly delightful role. Erie 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 unwittingly lampoons the family of the girl he loves, in a 'series of cartoons that amuse the world. The ensuing complications provide the vein of humour which has distinguished Wodehouse in the iield of letters and ' now provide a wealth of laughter for tho world on the screen. On the same ' programme will be shown "March of ■ Time, No. 1."