REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

■‘YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU.”

“You Can't Take It With You” has proved such an outstanding attraction at the Regent Theatre that the seasorj has been extended in order to meet the demand by picture patrons to see it. “You Can’t Take .It With You,” while providing nigh class comedy, has a strong heart appeal. It is the story of everyday people, from snobs to the happy lower orders, and .those who have the principal parts in the picture provide something particularly entertaining. Lionel Barrymore as Grandpa Vanderhof has a delightful part to which he does full justice. Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold. James Stewart and Mischa Auer give excellent representations in their respective characters. “You Can’t Take It With You,” is the heart-warming story of two families whose philosophies of life are poles apart. One family, presided over by happy-go-lucky Grandpa Vanderhof, lives merrily and somewhat madly in a sufficient-unto-the-day atmosphere of untroubled fun. The other family, the social-conscious, moneygrabbing, power-mad Kirbys, are the purest of wealth worshippers. The two families clash when the Kirby son and the Vanderhof granddaughter fall in love. Tony Kirby, not so dollarbound as his father, nor so class-con-scious as his mother, believes his parents are genuine at heart. He hopes that contact with the Vanderhofs will change their attitude towards his marriage to Alice. But the meeting of the two families is marked by an exhibition of typical Vanderhof good humour which winds up with everybody—the Kirbys as well as the Vanderhofs. There was a splendid supporting programme. _________