AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

£VFRYBDDYB PICTURES. “CHARLEY’S AUNT." YO-NIGHT AND THURSDAY. .“Charley’s Aunt,” an English farce with an English cast, will be screened at the Princess Theatre to-night and *cm . Thursday. As the bogus “Aunt’ Charles Ruggles has acquitted himself with honour, and brings an “Aunt notable for the convulsing merriment and superb mimicry which designates this as one of tlie screen’s most soughtafter comedies. “‘Charley’s Aunt” is the inspiration of an English pen, and the entire cast is English, being recruits from the stage. This fact proves English stones and plays enacted by English players with the aid of Ameri- - can technique, can produce film classics that never fail to attract the wideawake public. “Rookery Nook” and “On Approval” brought home that

film fare was most desirable when based upon English stories and speech. The plot of “Charley’s Aunt” is based upon the impersonation of Donna Lucia D’Alvadorez, a Brazilian lady, by an undergraduate of Oxford to act as a chaperone at a luncheon given by two of his fellow undergraduates. The complications that ensue with the advent of the real aunt, and two proposals of marriage to the astounded bogus aunt, are responsible for unlimited laughter.