THE REGENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1938, Page 2

THE REGENT

“ARSENE LUPIN’S RETURN.” “Arsene Lupin’s Return,”- featuring Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce and Warren William screens finally tonight. “A YANK AT OXFORD.” Replete with action, laughs, and fine characterisations, “A Yank at Oxford,” will be screened tomorrow night. It offers Robert Taylor his most convincing role to date and more than repays Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the time and effort spent in producing in England pictures' equal in calibre to any made in Hollywood. This is the studio’s first British-made production. In fact, the authenticity of the background and atmosphere of the picture proves that only in a British setting could it have been so successfully evolved. In presenting Taylor in the title role as the cocky all-star athlete who comes to Oxford to “teach the natives” and himself learns plenty in return, “A Yank at Oxford” affords the star his greatest opportunity to demonstrate his athletic ability to’ handle genuinely dramatic scenes. Lionel Barrymore as Taylor’s father, . and Maureen O’Sullivan, as the English undergraduate whom the hero meets at Oxford, lend their accustomed polished performances. Others in the cast are Vivien Leigh, Griffith Jones, Edmund Gwenn, C. V. France and Edward Rigby.