BROADWAY SUCCESS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 17, 12 September 1931, Page 5

BROADWAY SUCCESS

"QUEEN HIGH" ONE OF BIGGEST HITS OF RECENT YEARS • STRONG CAST. "Queen High," one of the biggest hits of Broadway in recent years, is coming to the Majestic Theatre on September 19 with Stanley Smith, Ginger Rogers, Charles Ruggles and Franlc Morgan in the cast. "Queen High" was originally a Schwab and Mandel musical comedy smash-hit in New York. In its audible celluloid form, it retains all the sure-for-laughs craftsmanship of the producers (who are billed as the makers and stagers of the film), and all the original wit of the basic piece, _"A

Pair of Sixes," the farce comedy by Edward H. Peples, which started it all. . • . Ruggles and Morgan are the partners in a garter-producing business, who know how to support ladies' garments with their wares, but who do not know how to support each other's opinions with any degree of pacifism. After many fights, their lawyer sug- ' gests that they each draw a hand of ! poker, to determine who will be the ! "other's butler. Ruggles loses, and j thereafter, is the manservant in the j home of Morgan. Laugh follows laugh as the humorous situations pile up in swift tempo. Entirely new music for "Queen High" was written especially for Paramount's screen version. Two of

the songs which seem destined for the class are "It Seems to1 Me," and "I'm Afraid of You," both sung by Stanley Smith and Ginger Ruggles, the leading juveniles of the production.