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TRAVELLER'S JOY

(Rank-Gainsborough) TRAVELLER'S JOY has been adapted from a very successful London play by Arthur Macrae-and looks very much like it. A good part of it, set in hotel rooms, was probably little different on the stage; thé smart dialogue goes over in the way we expect of a West End success. The er plot is built round the financial difficulties of English business folk abroad without enough foreign currency to pay their way-the "new British paupers," as one character calls them. The principal victims for the purposes of the story are Mrs. Pelham (Googie Withers) and her former husband (John McCallum), who meet in Stockholm and find they have a mutual interest in keeping the jailer at bay when they are unable to pay their hotel bills. Impris-_ onment for this crime is, one gathers, the not unusual fate of the very best English people in Sweden. The story becomes quite involved as it proceeds. An increasing number of characters come and go very rapidlyor else linger to let their presence cause hilarious complications. There is some good fun. when Pelham unexpectedly find himself playing waiter to his

former wife while her latest Swedish, currency prospect is doing,a heavy line with her. This and other amusing situations (especially towards the end of the film), and dialogue which at its best is very entertaining, helped me to pass a wet Saturdayes afternoon agreeably enough, and I think they would probably do the same for a good many others.

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 15

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TRAVELLER'S JOY New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 15

TRAVELLER'S JOY New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 15

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