MODERN COMEDY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 414, 24 December 1932, Page 7

MODERN COMEDY

I "STRANGERS IN LOVE" FEATURING FREDiRIC MARCH INTRIGUING ROMANCE "Go ahead" is apparently the motto i of Frederic March, popular Paramount star, who comes to the Majestic Theatre Saturday next in "Strangers in 1 Love". To a world in which most i nice people are timid souls afraid to j take what is rightfully theirs, Mr. Marsh brings welcome relief; for this man gets action. In "Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," you remember, he had the courage. to drink a deadly mixture | that might — and did — produce disasi trous effects. Now, although "Strang- | ers in Love" is a modern comedy, Mr. : March again displays an iron nerve. : For the hero of "Strangers in Love" a happy-go-lucky young man named ; Buddy Drake, has the delightful impudence to pretend to be his own ; brother Arthur; and, as Arthur, to : make love, cash cheques, and gener- : ally embark on sk carrer of amusing ■ madness. It must he said for Buddy | that although Uo one would want 1 to be Arthur without good reason, he has that reason. Arthur has taken Buddy's money, and being Arthur s'eems the hest way to get it back.

So Aided and abetted by a friend (Stuart Erwin), as mad as himself, Buddy is Arthur long enough to involve himself in complications that would land an ordinary man in gaol. Indeed, it looks for a while as if Buddy would land there — but he has help, just in time, from a charming young woman (Kay Francis), who, as Arthur's secretary has been furnishing some of the major complications. Credit for making "Strangers in Love" a fast moving,/ intriguing and dramatically exciting romance is due not only to Mr. March but to Miss Francis, and to the distinguished cast which includes Stuart Erwin, Juliette Compton, George Barbier, Earle Foxe and Sidney Toler.