Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-02-02 | Page 16 | Comedy of Colonial Times Now at Gem

COMEDY OF COLONIAL TIMES NOW AT GEM Adapted from a great Broadway success The Pursuit of Happiness Happi Happi- ness an appealing romantic comedy comedy com corn edy of Revolutionary Re war days whose theme however is less olwar of ol war than of that curious colonial custom of bundling Is now at the Gem theater It affords the handsome handsome hand hand- some Czech actor Francis Lederer a 11 tailor-made tailor part as the conscripted conscript conscript- ed Hessian soldier who attracted by bythe bythe the he colonists' colonists constitutional guarantee guaran guaran- tee to every man the right to the pursuit of happiness des deserts the to seek happiness with the he rebels His adventures begin when found hiding in the hayloft of a colonial family amily he is taken Into the household household house house- hold hoM and falls in love with the blithesome blithesome blithesome blithe blithe- some daughter Thereafter although captured and held a prisoner by an ardent militia officer he becomes an apt pt student of the art of bundling bundling bun dUng progresses in his courtship and even wins an appointment in inthe inthe the tho colonial arm army Opposite Lederer Leder- Leder er Joan Bennet makes males a charming and demurely mischievous Puritan I while Charlie Ruggles and Mary Baland Boland Boland Bo- Bo land as her doting parents contribute contrib contrib- ute uto to the humor of the piece Barbara Barbara Bar Bar- bara barn Barondess Minor Watson Vatson and Walter Kingsford are importantly cas cast t. t On the surrounding bill is a Todd Todd- Kelly comedy Done In Oil a color cartoon Peculiar Penguins pictorial and news