WILL ROGERS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 141, 6 February 1932, Page 7

WILL ROGERS

NEW ROLE FOR COMEDIAN IN "YOUNG AS YOU FEEL." AN HILARIOUS PLAY. In "Young as You Feel," his latest Fox starring picture, Will Rogers discards the personal habits of a lifetime and appears for the first time on stage or screen as a well groomed, Bond Street tailored gentleman. Rogers has not gone Hollywood. His striking wardrobe is a definite part of the very human characterisation Rogers poitrays as "Lemuel Morehouse," dyspeptic, grouchy old fogey who is compelled to turn ultra modern as an example for his two sons. "Young as You Feel," which is the screen version of George Ade's hilarious play, "Father and the Boys," and which opens at the Majestic Theatre on Thursday, deals with the widowed father of two j&odern son a man who has devoted his life to their interest and who wishes them to J settle down to business and become j b-aPPy> contented husbands. The boys, however, have other ideas. i One goes in beqvily for society, while the other makes of sport a mania.. Then Rogers resorts to desperate i measures. A revolution takes place in his eharacter, brought about by a chance meeting with a professional entertainer, portrayed by Fifi Dorsay, with whom Rogers made so much hilarity in "They Had to See Paris." From a staid, opinionated, dyspeptic, set-in-his ways old fogey, Rogers changes overnight into a gay blade. His neglect of business is appalling to his general manager, played by Lucien Littlefield, and a decided shock

I to his sons; but Rogers and Fifi ignore all protests and continue their wild rounds of night clubs and race tracks. Gossip begins to fly which is just the needed element to bring his sons to their senses and make them settle down to business. "Young as You Feel" is reported to be the best picture Will Rogers has made to date. It combines the homely wit of George Ade's charaeteristic slang and the infectious humour of Rogers. In addition to Fifi Dorsay and Lucien Littlefield, Rogers' supporting cast includes Donald Dillaway , Terrance Ray, Rosalie Roy, Lucile Browne and others. Frank Borzage, who directed Rogers in "They Had to See Paris," directed the production.