Wendy Barrie Bewitched By Lawrence Tibbett

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)

Wendy Barrie Bewitched By Lawrence Tibbett

“UNDER YOUR SPELL” ROMANCE TO MUSIC (State: Screening Soon.) With Lawrence Tibbett as a fedup singing star and Wendy Barrie as a hot-neaded heiress after his aria supplying riotous romance, Gregory Baton and Arthur Treacher collaborating on riotous comedy, “Under Your Spell” is the snappiest, singiest story of Lawrence Tibbett’s career. The hilarity starts when baritone l’ibbett becomes bored with the continual round of engagements, endorsements and publicity schemes arranged by his indefatigable manager and mentor, Gregory Katoff and returns to the lone prairie to resume his former occupation of “cowboying.” Tibbett wants peace at any price, even if he has to light for it. He no sooner lands at his rancho when Wendy Barrie, a society siren, who lias made a bet with Count Gregory Gay© that if she can t persuade Lawrence to sing at one ox her private parties, she will marry him (the Count), arrives on the scene and causes pandemonium on the plains. It’s love at first “fight” and romance on the run as Wendy pursues and pesters Lawrence to return with her in her plane. Finally she wins her point ami are about to fly East, when the everactive Katoff works a fake publicity -gag” that shows her up as a love sick silly, chasing a celebrity. Tibbett is furious over Ratoff’s scheming. Accompanied by Arthur Treacher, his butler turned broncobuster, he determines to leave the country and get away from it all, but just as he boards the boat, Wendy has him arrested on a charge of breach of contract to sing at her party. Hit tunes and howls follow one another as Tibbett turns the dignified court-room into a concert hall to prove his innocence. His singing defense captivates and convinces an admiring judge and he is set free. Then he goes after the stubborn Wendy.