GRAND THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 182, 26 March 1932, Page 2

GRAND THEATRE

TO-NIGHT The comedy in "A W'arm Corner" is broad and never subtle, and the play simply sparkles with witty sallies. Best of all, the picture gets clean away from the worst fault of "talkies" — their static quality. "A Warm Corner" is dynamic. It rushes along in a constant stream of action, with frequent changes of scene that are grateful to the sense, and accentuate the general mobility of the play. As a rule the story of such production does not count much. But the story . in "A Warm Corner" keeps one keenly interested all the time. Briefly, it is a tale of a wealthy corn-plaster maker, named Corner, who leaves his "obese and middle-aged i wife, and steals off, for a gay time, ; to the Lido. There he gets entangled in a love affair, and bolts home. But his sins — in the shape of his U'do • acquaintances — come trooping after him, one by one, and with each ar-riv-al the very warm Mr. Corner finds the temperature rising! This is just a bare outline of a ' comedy which is one of the very best of the brilliant group of British comedy production which have recently put the British studios definitely on the "movie" map. Directed and adapted by Vietor Saville, from the play by Arthur Wim- 1 peris and Laurie Wylie, it is eminently a picture tq see.