LOVE AFFAIR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 502, 8 April 1933, Page 7

LOVE AFFAIR

STORY OF CELEBRATED" AUTHORESS COMES TO SCREEN. Dorotby Mackaill plays a glamorous and courageous young lady dn "Love Affair," Columbia Pictures' adaptation of tlie Ursula Parrott story of the same name, which opens on Monday at the Grand Theatre. Miss Mackaill is cast as a modern young lady who tried to pla.y the love game the man's way, .and as a result almost came to a disastrous end. She discovers that a woman's emotions. are not as fickle as a man's, that it is not easy for a woman "to. kiss and forget" — when she falls in love it is a pretty serious; matter.

Carol Owen, beautiful heiress, who lived a casual carefree life, indulging in the gay whirl of the weialthy younger set, took up flyingi for a whim. And just for a whim she cultivated the handsome hut indifferent aeronautical engineer, Jimmy Leonard. But Carol' s whim and Jimmy 's indifference develop into love. However, when Jimmy asks Carol to marry him the morning after a madly romantic night, she refuses. She feels that she is too extravagant — her pleasure-loving interests have made Jim neglect his life's ambition — to perfect an airplane motor. Jimmy admires her all the more for her sportsmanlike lattitude', •and boasts he will make good for her sake. Realising that she will love Jimmy alwayiS', but feeling, he wi'll he better off without her, Carol promises to marry Bruce Hardy, her financial ladvisor, who has been dn love with her for a long time, and who, she discovers, has been supporting her since her father's death. Shei learn® that her father's heavy finiancial losses left her penniless and that Bruce has been keeping up a pretence. Jimmy misunderstands, casts Carol from his life and buries himself in his work.

But Carol cannot go through with her marriage to Bruce — "she could not kiss ia,nd forget." She is just about to make her first solo flight, her "last" fligiht, when Jimmy, who has made some important discoveries about Carol and himself, arrdves. They can start out evehly now — poor material but rich' in love. Dorothy Mackaill is glamorous as Carol, Gwen. She looks istunning and gives a convincing and sympathetic P'erformance — gay and scintillating in some scenes, pathetically appealing in others. Humphrey Bogart is excellent as Jimmy Leonard. Astrid Allwyn, Hale Hamilton and Bradley Pagje are others in the cost who share in the j acting honours. Lavish settings and beautiful costumes give the picture production value.