COMEDY ROMANCE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 194, 9 April 1932, Page 2

COMEDY ROMANCE

"TOO YOUNG TO MARRY" IS VERY HUMAN PICTURE v STORY OF YOUTH "Too Young To Marry," the comedy-romance which opens on April 14 at the Majestic Theatre, is without doubt one of the most heartwarming, uproariously tender pictures of this or any other season. It is a brilliant version of the Martin Flavin play which captivated Broadway several seasons ago. "Too Young To Marry" is the story of the ways and means adopted by the daughter of a scold and a henpeck, to win the grocerboy of her heart. The adventurous boy and girl are played by Loretta Young and Grant Withers. Incidentally "Too Young To Marry" is said to be the first picture these two young people made after their elopement by airpjhne from Hollywood to Yuma, Arizona, where they were married, when Loretta was but 17. 0. P. Heggie, greatest character actor of the generation, is cast as the down-trodden father, and Emma Dunn, the English actress who was so successful in "Mother" and "Old Lady 31," is the cantankerous mother, who insists that her youngest and prettiest daughter is too •young to marry.

Mother has for years twitted pa with. a lover she once had, who is supposedly a paragon of all the virtues, one Chester Armstrong. Riehard Tucker plays the part of the mythical Chester, who returns to the small town with a big stock-swind-ling scheme, only to be hustled off by cops, to mother's everlasting humiliation. One of the most satisfying characterisations in "Too Young To Marry" i's that of Lloyd Neal, who plays pa's tippling old pal,^ who on a clandestine visit with him to the lodge, imbibes a little too much hard cider. J. Farrell McDonald triumphs as the sanctimonious and pussy-footing justice of the peace who marries Elaine and Bill while ma is at the movies with her two spinster daughters. The spinster daughters are played with zest by Virginia Sale, who is the simpering one, and Aileen Carlisle, the fat one. And all the hilarious, human sweep of the story is cast in the middle of a white New England winter — the sort we read abont — or remember, if our youth happened to be passed in that part of U.S.A. "Too Young To Marry" is a play for all the family.Don't miss it, whatever else you must miss.