AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 110, 16 November 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“MY DEAR MISS ALDRICH” Whatever your views as to the equality of men and women, in the world outside the home. “Aly Dear Aliss Aidrioli” .which screens 'J liursday and Friday at the De .Luxe Theatre, will amuse you. it makes no edort to instruct.

Produced at Alotrc-Goldwyn-Ala ver studio, this clever comedy I natures idlna A lay Oliver, -Maureen O Sullivan anil Walter Pidgeoii, formerly of Broadway. Aliss O’Sullivan has since been chosen to appear in London with Robert Taylor in “A A auk at Oxford-” Pidgeoii has been signed to a long-term contra* L with Aletru-uuld-w vn-Alayer.

“My Dear Miss Aldrich’’ was directed by George Seitz. The cast is uniformly good. Mina May Oliver, as a puzzle addict, is seen in the most amusing role of her career. Others who score include J. Farrell MacDonald as a city, editor; Janet Johnson, Roger Converse, Brent Sargent, Charles Waldron, Guinn Williams and Paul Harvey.

Miss O’Sullivan portrays a school, teacher who inherits a newspaper and straightway arrives to assume command. Bidgeon is the managing editor so opposed to women in business life that he refuses even to hire a girl reporter oil his staff. 1 hat is the situation. it goes without saying that the new owner not only proves her abilitv as a newspaper woman but works her way into the heart of the hard-boiled managing editor. it is first rate comedy entertainment.