"AS YOU LIKE IT."

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 60, 3 December 1937, Page 9

"AS YOU LIKE IT."

"As You Like It" screens finally tonight at the State Theatre. Jeeves, so sad-eyed, so gentle, so utterly, utterly proper, thought gangland to be a bit of all right. _ They could swindle him, bamboozle him and buffet. him about, but he insists on proper manners, and so the underworld is in a deuce of a dither when the famed "gentleman's gentleman" goes berserk for a delightful period of gleeful buffoonery in the second saga of his misadventures, "Step Lively, Jeeves!" featuring Arthur .Treacher in the title role whieh screens at the State Theatre to-morrow. Eun. and excitement no end attach to the earnest social-climbing efforts of Helen Elint, wife of a retired gangster, when she snaffleS for his society splurge the heir to the millions of Sir Franeis Drake, the Suddenly prominent "Eayl of Bedford," whieh is the bogus title the two "con" men have bestowed upon their unsuspecting friend. The story gets more and more hilariously involved as the swindlers, realising they are tryihg to mulct a former public enemy and his cohorts, attempt to Seramble out of their deal, failing because they had sold their victim too thoroughly. When Jeeves' true identity is discovered there breaks loose fireworks of an unsafe and insane Fourth-of-July nature, the hilarity of whieh is further heightened by Jeeves' typiCal sober and sensible way out of all difficulties.