GRAND THEATRE
TO-NIGHT Joe E. Brown appeared at his funniest last night when his engagement in First National's "Broadminded" opened at the Grand Theatre, as Ossie Simpson, the timidly girl-conscious who by an odd twist of fate has been put in charge of a wealthy playboy, whose father wants to get him out of reach of the blonde who is determined to acquire him as a means to getting possession of his dad's millions. The two beat it westward in a Baby Austin — and wrecks, rescues, complications with new feminipe menaces, and a thousand and one funny mix-ups go to make up the story which is by Kalmar and Ruby — the Broadway favourites who wrote "Animal Crackers," "Hold Everything," and many others. That the collaborators know the technique of making people laugh is evident from the story. Joe E. Brown is lucky in the direetor ehosen by the producers. Mervyn Le Roy, who, if we are not mistaken, 'b'rected the dynamic "Show Girl," a picture as remote from "Broadminded" as the north pole. from the south has directed this slap-stick classic with equal verve and appreciation. "Broadminded" is delightful nonsense, the sort that is relished by the wisest men. Joe E. Brown's comedy will# be relished by the whole family. Take them all and give them the time of their lives.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/RMPOST19320429.2.7.2
Bibliographic details
Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 210, 29 April 1932, Page 3
Word Count
221GRAND THEATRE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 210, 29 April 1932, Page 3
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Rotorua Morning Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in