GRAND THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 443, 30 January 1933, Page 7

GRAND THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. Kather handicapped by the character title of Willie, Robert Montgomery is cast in "Lovers . Courageous," which opens at the Grand Theatre tonight, as a whimsical rolling stone who clears out from his unimaginative family in London. and roams th'e world, passing from job to job in Canada, and the United States, finally reaching South Africa, where he beeomes a £2 assistant in a tobacconist shop. There he meets Mary, daughter of a British admiral, who is engaged to marry Lord Jimmy upon her return to England. Awake to this clandestine love affair, Mary is hastened back to London by her parents, where she grows to detest Lord Jimmy^who is a boisterous type interested entirely in ! hunting. On the eve of her wedding, Mary learns that Willie has arrived, 1 and, unable to tolerate her aristocratic ; huslaand-to-be, she goes back to Willie ! and demands that they be married I desp'ite his poverty and his non-suc- ! cess as a playwright. Th'e outraged | father disowns her; hut after many j failures, and when they are reduced to absolute hunger, Willie sends his ; wife back to her father. The1 latter j stipulates that Willie must not see her 01* communicate with her again, • but this stipulation is unknown to j Mary. j 'iLdvehs Courageousv is distinctive i for the perfect characterisations given | by Frederick Kerr as the girl's father; Beryl Mercer as the hoy's mother; ' and, even above them, for the human | understanding with which Roland | Young invests his role as the life-long j friend of Mary.