DELIGHTFUL TALENT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 288, 30 July 1932, Page 7

DELIGHTFUL TALENT

PATHE PRESENTATION OF "LONELY WIVES" AL WOOD'S SUCCESS Thd philOsopher who insists that : all the world needs for a readjustment of its maladies is to laugh more, must have uttered that remark after seeing the A1 Woods stage success on which "Lonely WiYes" is based. This is a picture for laughing purposes only. There is a corking plot, and there are many hilarious situations. Every character is a. masterpiqce of mirth, while scintillating dialogue completes what will be hailed as the screen's most perfect funfest. Maybe you think you know your comedy, but you haven't seen anything yet — not until you've sat through ."Lonely Wives," which comes to the Mgjestic Theatre on Monday. , For this funfest begins where others leave off. Vision such a comedy riot that half the office workers around I the studio stayed after work each j night so they could see. the daily "rushes" of the picture. The situations are there, the dialogue is there, the merry'scrambled plot is there, and how the players are there ! ! ! In assembling this cast Pathe has achieved the apparently impossible. It has gathered together several players, each of whom is usually atarred in his of her own right. Edward Everett Horton heads the cast. Esther Ralston, golden beauty of the screeh and an able comedienne, will gathfir in* thous'ands of fans everywhere. Laura La Plante, perhaps the outstanding light comedienne of the screen, has an important role, while Patsy Ruth Miller's piquant talents are always a delight. Spencer Charters has proved himself a picture stealer second to none. Maude Eburn© has stood for able character cbmedy for twenty-five years. Now imagine all these working together and you'll have some idea of the calibre of "Lonely Wives." Is this ov isn't it a riot? To fool his prying mother-in-law and incidentally enable him to keep an appointment with a charming young client seeking a divorce., a prominent attorney induces a -vaudev;llle impersonator to take his place for one evening. Unfortunately that is the evening his wife selects to surprise him by an earlier return than was expected. Still more unfortunately, it develops that his young client is the wife of the vaudeville. impersonator. The errant husband does not return until morning, and then he is closely trailed by the young client. The hilarious situation that fesults is probably the most riotous farce since the advent of talking pictures.