REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

‘•RICH MAN, POOR GIRL.” Romance and comedy are combined with uproarious results in “Rich Man, Poor Girl,” featuring Robert Young, Lev/ Ayres and Ruth Hussey commencing at the Regent Theatre tomorrow. Young, a socialite millionaire in love with his secretary, played by Miss Hussey, is presented in another of those breezy, personable roles which earned him acclaim in “Married Before Breakfast,” and “I Met Him in Paris.” Lew Ayres in the part of Miss Hussey’s impetuous cousin, champion of the middle classes, unquestionably hurls himself into Hollywood’s front rank of comedians with this delightful characterisation. Miss Hussey, undertaking her first leading role, is an engaging and charming heroine. Young and Miss Hussey are in love, and wish to get married, but she fears the wide social gulf which separates them and insists that he meet her family. The folks at home, “Ma” Thayer, played by Sarah Padden, and “Pa” Thayer, played by Guy Kibbee, Frank. Don Castle, and the hot-headed cousin Henry, as portrayed by Ayres, are suspicious of the millionaire. Miss Hussey’s sister, Lana Turner, however, considers the the proposed marriage a windfall and one which shouldn't be blown av/ay. In order to impress the family wifh the seriousness of his intentions, Young moves into their tiny fiat with them—and then the hilarity begins to bubble. “Rich Man, Poor Girl” is really excellent screenfare for every rnembei’ of the family.