AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 224, 23 August 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU” CAPRA’S GREATEST TRIUMPH Hailed as another Capra Columbia’s screen .version oiv,.sfctie George S. Kaufman-Moss er Prize play, “You Can’t fee It With You.” opens Thursday at the Regent Theatre with a . cast- which includes Jean Arthur, James Stewart,. - Lionel Barrymore. Edward Arnold',' Mist-ha Auer, Ann Miller and numerous others. “You; .Can’t Take it With You” ' was produced and directed .by Crank Capra from the screen play by Robert Riskin. These Columbia film-makers have been lauded tiiiie. find again for their “It Happened One Night,” “Lady for a Day,” “Lost Horizon,” and “Air. Deeds Goes to Town.” “You Can’t Take.lt With You”, based on the stage success for which Columbia paid. £50.003, is said to exceed even the previous efforts of the two brilliant collaborators. v T'he new film deals with, the lovable and perfectly delightful Vanderhof family, which believes in doing whatever it wants whenever it wants to.

In their old New York home, presided over, by Grandpa Vanderhof, this uninhabited group reveals a heartwarming attitude toward life in a hlorry melange of comedy, flavoured with romance and , tinged with pathos. “You Can’t Take it With You” is’ concerned, in part, with the promt aristocratic Kirbys, ak well as with the carefree Vanderhofs. Kirby’s monumental plan to form a huge munitionsmerger, a move: which requires the purchase of all property within an area of twelve city; blocks, is halted when Grandpa refuses tu sell the Vanderhof home at any price. The plan of Kirby’s soil" to marry Alice* Sycamore, his secretary, is blocked when the boy brings liis parents to dinner one night, only to discover the Vanderhof family engrossed in its various eccentric affairs. #

The romance and merry-mad conflict of the two families, coupled with the enjoyable 1 lioblAes of the Vnnderliofs and .-their "many friends, is declared) to make “You Can’t Take it With You” . qne of tile outstanding productions of the season. Prominent in the supporting cast of .the new. Capra film are Spring Bvington, Samuel S. Hinds, Dub Taylor, Donald Mfeek, H. B. Warner, Halliwell Hobbes, Eddie Anderson and Lillian Yarbo. Dimitri Tiomkin composed the- musical score.