ARE HUSBANDS NECESSARY?
(Paramount)
Y a coincidence, it is also necessary to warn you against being misled by the title of this next film, and for somewhat similar reasons. The
idea behind the title "Are fusbands Necessary" isn’t what you might expect; it is simply that a smart wife can deal with the bills, deal with the vice-presi-dential vacancy on the bank staff, and land the fattest account the bank has been chasing for a lifetimd without the help of a bungling husband, Of course I musn’t forget that in the last few feet it’s announced that the adopted baby js to have a real flesh-and-blood brother (they. seem sure that it is going to be a brother). Still, I feel that here again the public is being enticed along on somewhat false lines. According to the introduction, addressed in generous type»to an omnipresent "you," the hero and heroine are to be regarded as a typical small-town man and wife who have been married about two years. "George and Liz (Ray Milland and Betty Field), might be the people living in the two-story house next door." Eugene Pallette appears in high good humour as the wealthy fish that all the bank officials set themselves to hook; he perversely takes a fancy to George and Liz, and it» becomes fairly clear early that Liz won’t really need to work her patent filing system with the bills by the time the film ends, because obviously George will have to be made a senior officer. The system invented by Liz consists of sorting her bills into three groups-"utility," the butcher and so on, with particularly impolite early-remit-tance-will-oblige notes; "utility and nonutility," with mild footnotes; and "sweethearts," friendly little bills with no footnotes. These last she quite ignores, aware that they will come back next month, and the month _ after, graduating at last into the second group and then into the first. The budget generally meets the utility group, and stretches as far as a few in the second group. She explains all. this to a bewildered husband as "living within our income.’ A. very pretty scene. Are Husbands Necessary? is no mustbut it has its laughs-and that’s something.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 199, 16 April 1943, Page 13
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365ARE HUSBANDS NECESSARY? New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 199, 16 April 1943, Page 13
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