GRAND THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 188, 1 April 1932, Page 2

GRAND THEATRE

TO-NIGHT A complete departure from the usual type of feature length comedies, "How Dry We Are," now the attraction at the Grand Theatre, is one of the most extraordinary and highly ent&rtaining films that has ever been offered to the theatre-going public in several years. Picture Slim Summerville and Harry Langdon, two of the screen's most mirth-provocative actors, mistaken for two notorious gunmen hired by a rumrunning gang to "hump off" a rival leader and yon have the essenee of the plot of this hilarious satire. Seldom have audienees been offered" funnier situations than those created in this timely satire on gang life in Amjerica. The story deals with an exciting adventurs in the lives of two "knights of the road" who take leave from a side-door pullman and are swept up by a storm of circumstances which involves them in a whirlwind succession of unexpected events. They become unavoidably affiliated with a gang of rum-racketeers, and the most hilarious incidents that might he imagined f ollow in rapid succession. Langdon and Summerville make a team which has seldom been equalled on the screen. Perfectly cast for- their roles, Harry and Slim sail through situations that go to make "How Dry We Are" the most distinctive comedy of an impressive talking picture season. Bessie Love, who plays the part of an aide to the district attorney's office by posing as a cabaret dancer, is a lively factor in the picture. Other important characters are played by Mitchell Lewis, Matthew Betz, Stanley Fields, Dick Alexander and Lloyd Whitlock.