NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1018, 8 July 1930, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“HONEY” BEING SHOWN The musical talking picture. “Honey,” which is at the New Regent Theatre, shows vivacious Nancy Carroll in a role especially written for her. “Honey” Is light and genuinely funny, the ruses and romances of three separate love affairs providing rollicking entertainment from beginning to end. Miss Carroll is Olivia, daughter of the Dangerfields, a proud but poor pioneer family of Virginia, Circumstances force Olivia to lease the parental mansion and her tenant is a wealthy American widow, with whom perfect servants are an obsession. In accordance with her. wishes, Olivia hires a staff of three. Of these only Mayme, the upstairs maid, arrives, bringing with her her little daughter Doris. In desperation Olivia persuades her brother Charles to assume the duties of butler, and she herself takes up her domain in the kitchen, where she makes an unusually charming cook—as far as appearance counts. Burton Crane, whom the rich widow designs to make her son-in-law, discovers this, and it is not long before Cora, the daughter, is enamoured with butler Charles —a sorry state of affairs, and one that is responsible for much laughter. The widow is an eager purchaser of the secrets of romance at five dollars apiece. But there is nothing disappointing about the finale, which is but the beginning £or three pairs of lovers and marks the close of a farce of pure en- t joyment. There are several tuneful songs in “Honey,” the best being “In My Little Hope Chest,” sung by Nancy Carroll. There are in addition extremely interesting short featurettes.