REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

NEW TYPE OF COMEDY. A new standard for tangled domestic situations is reached in Paramount's new comedy, “Say It In French,” which will be shown tonight at the Regent Theatre. It is a story of complications that arise when a young American society lad returns from abroad with a French bride only to learn that he must shield his marriage from the world and announces his engagement xto a New York heiress in order to prevent his father’s shipping from going on the rocks. This unusual situation reaches the hilarious when the bride takes a job as maid with her husband’s family in order to be near him until they iron out their difficulties. One mad incident follows another as the young man announces his engagement to stave off a panic, while his wife devotes her efforts to nipping the family scandal in the bud. Playing together for the first time, two of Paramount’s top stars, Ray Milland and Olympe Bradna, are seen as the young husband and wife. The play which the film is based was written by Jacques Deval, famed French playwright and author of “Tovarich.” OneoS Broadway’s most famous actors of a generation ago plays the eccentric shipping magnate in the film. He is William Collier, Senr., whose name was once as familiar to theatre-goers as those of Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, or Ronald Colman are today. A notable feature of the first half of the programme is a fine rendering of the overture to Wagner’s opera, “Tannhauser,” played by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, under the baton of Frederick Feher. The other excellent short, subjects are: “A Sporting Pest,” a Grantland Rice, sports thrill; “Bulldozing the Bull,” a Popeye Cartoon; “Beside a Moonlit Stream,” a screen song, and interesting newsreels.