GRAND THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 96, 14 December 1931, Page 6

GRAND THEATRE

TO-NIGHT Get out your asbestos-lined and water-cooled ribs, folks! Don your diaphragm shock absorbers. Drown the cat!, Throw your troubles out the window — and see Robert Woolsey in Radio Pictures' comedy scream, "Everything's Rosie." The cockiest funniest little man on the talking screen is Woolsey. He's a nut — makes squirrels out of his audience — they like it. It really is that kind of a picture. Besides Woolsey, it has a story, a real story of a carnival faker, who adopts and raises as his own a baby girl, and becomes hopelessly, worshipfully in love with her. In the portrayel of this character Woolsey reveals a depth of pathos on a par with the greatest of tragedians, while his humorous adventures in following side-shows around the country, conducting auction saies, tell ing fortunes, selling patent medicines and operating shell games afford him great opportunity for the patter and wise-cracking that made him famous. "Everything's Rosie" is Woolsey's first sole starring show — the first time he has appeared in pictures without teaming with Bert Wheeler. That he can more than capably carry a characterisation alone is decisively shown in this production. He's a real star in his own right. Anita Louise, beautiful and charming blonde, and John Darrow, one of the screen's most capable juveniles, furnish the romance. Clyde Bruckman, responsible for a number of Harold Lloyd's greatest successes, directed from a story by Al Boasberg.