STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1941, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

a Ch— — ‘’DANCE, GIRL. DANCE?* ; ‘’Dance, Girl. Dance," the spectacular i romantic drama of back-stage life ' starring Maureen O'Hara. Louis Hayward and Lucille Ball, will be finally j presented tonight. "MY FAVOURITE WIFE." "My Favourite Wife," which will be shown tomorrow brings back Irene ; Dunne and Cary Grant to the screen s in a gay sophisticated romantic comj edy in which these Hollywood luminI aries hit a stride which should carry them to top comed.v awards for the j year. A large share of their success in ’ this breezy film is due to the hilarious i story which was especially designed j for the stars' talents by Bella and Sami uel Spewack. Miss Dunne is cast as a ! wife presumably lost at sea whose ; husband. Cary Grant, has her declared i legally dead after seven years’ abj sence and then marries Gail Patrick. ! The- newlyweds no sooner depart on : their honeymoon than the first wife rei turns, very much alive. She was resi cued from an unchartered Pacific Isj land on which she had been marooned i all these years with Randolph Scott, portraying a handsome scientist. She overtakes the honeymooners at a Yosemite hotel, and presents herself to her startled husband. Unable to blurt out the truth of his bride, Grant tries to I keep his first wife hidden —with some hilarious and disastrous complications. Mow starts a mad pace which is heightened until the uproarious climax. The kissless bride and her distraught husband flee home only to find Miss Dunne awaiting them and posing as an old friend of the family. And soon after the double-groom learns that his first wife and the virile explorer were alone on that island for seven years’ i Contributing lavishly to the laughs are I Gail Patrick as the bride who can't j comprehend her husband's sudden. | aloofness and Randolph Scott, whose j desire to marry Grant’s first wife af-j j ter being stranded with her for seven I j years aggravates the burden the jea-. I lous husband is already carrying. In i { other fine 'performances are Ann Shoe- I j maker. Donald Macßride. Granville • i Bates, and two youngsters, Scotti' Bec- { kett. and Mary Lou Harrington, who ! portray the Dunne-Grant children. i