MARIE DRESSLER AND POLLY MORAN IN "CAUGHT SHORT."

Daily Telegraph (Napier), 13 December 1930, Page 3

MARIE DRESSLER AND POLLY MORAN IN "CAUGHT SHORT."

The amusing side of the recent American stock market crash ^ will be depicted in "Caught Short," a Dletro -Goldwyn -Mayer alltalking comedy featuring Marie Dressler and Polly Moran, which will be shown at the Gaiety De Luxe Theatre to-mght. The stoi-y suggested t>y Eddie Cantor's hook, was written by Willard Mack. The supporting ' cast includes Anita Page, Charles Morton, T. Roy Barnes, Gwen Lee, .Herbert Prior, Edward Dilion, Greta Granstedt, Lee Kohlmar and Afice Moe. Charles _ F. Riesner directed. Infor"mation is that the demand for furthe'r co-starring pictures for Miss Dressler and Miss Moran came as 'a fesul't of their success as a laugh-getting team in such past procflictions as. "Bringiqg Up Father" and others. In "Caught Shqrt" thev will be seen as landladies with competing boarding houses across the 'street from each other, whose dabbling in the stock market results in their sudden rise from comparative povertv to financial iiulependence and then back again by way of "the crash. Love interest is fumished by tlie romance between Morton and Miss Page as the respective sou and daughter of tlie comedy puir. Exclusive of the hilanty furuislied by tlie Misses Dressler and Moran in their liouveau-riche circumstances. "Caught Bhort" is said to be distiuguished by expert characterisations on the part of Barnes, Prior and Dilion in the role of boarders. The settings of tlie picture are reported to be a relief from ihe excessively modernistic interiors seen m ^ lecerit productions,' the scenes of ."Caught Snort'' being laid cliiefly m tlie Washingfon Square "Village!' -uistrict of New York City. The boarding house atmosphere furtlier cnrried- out iil scenes laid in tenements, meat mar. kets, okl-clotlies emporiums, pawn. shops and similar localities of the class of humanity represented in tlie picture. It is only when tlie stockdabbling landladies como "into their own" that the stone shif'ts from the lowe.r. class districts to a luxurious hotel ' in Atlantic Cily and more elegant quarters. Musical touches of tlie picture include a travesty c-alled "I'm iSpanish Now," written by Dave Snell and Ray Egan, and sun'g by Miss Dressler in a party sequence ; and "Somehpcly," written by Roy Turk and Fred Alilert, which Chas. Morton sings. Fiom advance indications, "Cauglit Siiort" gives Miss Dressler and Miss Moran greater opportunities i'or their uproarious comic antics tlian they have ever before enjoyed,. the report being that Miss Dressler outdoes even her brilliant characterisntion in "Amia Christie." The world's famous funny men, iStan Laurel and Oliver Hai'dy will be seen m their latest and greatest comedy, "Men o' Wai*,'' an unforgettable comedy not. Without .question the mosk gorgeous C'olour-tone Revue to date will be seen in "Mexitano."' The above, with the latest Paramount and Metrotone Souatl News, completes what may be termed the finest_ all-talking entertainment witnessed in Napier in many a day. Seats may be rcserved at the theatre or by ringing 'plione 3809.