Sunday Post - 15.09.1940, Page 3

SUNDAY POST
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THIS WEEK AT THE CINEMA
American and English Comedy.
“Four’s a Crowd”
at the Nyja.
Note: We apologise to our readers for
having published this notice last week in
error.
After we had gone to press the manage-
ment of the cinema were obliged to
change the opening date.
An American Newspaper farce with
Rosalind Russel as the girl reporter and
Errol Flynn as the brilliant but reluctant
editor. Th'e other two sides of the riotous
rectangle are Olivia de Haviland and Pa-
trick Knowles as the rich but rather be-
wildered young newspaper owner.
Patrick Knowles paper is on the verge
of ruin and his only hope according to his
girl reporter is to persuade Errol Flynn to
return from the comfortable official job he
has withdrawn yinto and take over the
Editorship. The ex-editor has vowed never
to have anything to do with journalism
again and this is no easy matter but he
is finally won over.
Seeking to set the paper on its feet again
with a sensation he decides to try and
interview John P. Dillinger (Walter Con-
olly) an eccentric millonaire and Grand-
father of Patrich Knowles girl friend
(Olivia de Haviland). This is no easy matt-
er for John P. lives in seclusion with his
daughter and an enormous toy railway,
and delights in turning enormous and fero-
cious dogs on unwelcome intruders.
The attempt to storm this stronghold re-
sults among other things in such a bewild-
ering state of confusion in the love affairs
of editor, reporter, owner, and grand-
daughter that soon no one is quite sure
who is in love with which. Everything
however is finally sorted out to the satis-’
faction of all parties, with the possible ex-
ception of John P. and his dogs who are
last seen furiously pursuing the two
honeymoon couples.
“Keep your Seats Please”
at the Gamla.
George Formby hunting for a chair
with treasure - hidden in it; this sounds a
promising theme for a film and the fact
that his opposite number is Florence Des-
mond makes it seem even more promising.
George is of course the poor young man
trying to make good. When his rich aunt
dies she makes an eccentric will inviting
the family to buy their own heirlooms at
an auction sale of her property. The fa-
mily solicitor (Alastair Sim) tips George
off to buy a set of chairs. George bids
wildly and secures them but of course
cannot pay.
The solicitor who is after the money
himself refuses to lend him the price of
the chairs and before George’s newly-
found partner Max (Gus McNaughton) can
arrive on the scene the chairs have been
sold separately
George, Max and Florence proceed to
hunt the chairs around the country ripping
them open when they track them down.
There are many amusing incidents be-
fore the treasure is eventually found in
the course of which there is time for one
or two of George’s songs including “Keep
your Seats Please” which he sings on top
of a bus while taking a goat (which has un-
fortunately eaten the seat of one of his
chairs) to be X-rayed.
This film will probably be on until
Wednesday but may be extended until the
end of the week.