"KHAKI"

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 88, 14 April 1930, Page 5

"KHAKI"

ARMY LIFE COMEDY

Another, successful laughter-maker was produced by Mr. Ernest LotingJi at the Grand Opera House on Saturday, and a full house rocked with laughter at the broad jests and excellent fooling. "Khaki" was the production^ ■ a "super dramatic comedy" in nine scenes. It hinges upon the adventures of Jimmie Josser, who is forced to don khaki and to go.to the front. His efforts to avoid this are ludicrous in the extreme, and he causes much fun in his disguises as a gardener, chauffeur, and butler. When he is at the front as Captain Partridge's orderly the fun is even more fast and furious, especially n ?i V s in G?rman hands. Underlying all the fooling is a' melodramatic story. Captain Partridge, ,the villain, is the guardian of Kitty Graham, whose husband stands between him and a fortune. What simpler than to send Lieutenant Graham on a bombing stunt from which he cannot possibly return alive? All is.set in train tor this, but Jimmie Josser is there, and i?i pl°s, is foillid- Partridge and Josser, botn tall into the hands of the Germans, and, pi course, it is Josser who contrives the escape. After further adventures in an apache den in Faris, all wrongs are righted and- villainy receives its retribution. Kight through the production Mr. Lotinga kept the fun going, -and the broader the jokes the louder the laughter. He is inimitable in his own way, and certainly a champion mirth-provoker. Mr. Harold VVillnnson made an excellent and sinister Vl , •",?/ CaP^in Partridge, and the part oi his friend," Captain, Spencer, was in the ca? ak le ,hands of Mr. T. A. Ellos. Lieutenant Graham and his wife Kitty were very capably played by Mr. Arnold Bell and Miss Ivathleen Barbor. Private Oppie and Private Pessie, -who added to the fun by their respectively optimistic and pessimistic views on life, were played by Messrs. Jack Frost and Fred Luck. Mr. Max Aviesou was equally at home as a British ■sergeant-major, a German private, and an aged German inventor. Mr. Laurence made a Anj , IP 1P OSl, n B .German general, and Mr. Adplt .Luck a splendid apache, den-keeper Miss. Ida May did all that was required of her as a maid. Miss Diasy Bindley was a typical V.A.D., and-Miss Rie-Costa-quite what one would expect an apache den-lceepera-wife-to be. English Tommies and berman privates completed the list of characters, the. whole company ably supporting their leader. ■'■■ ■*. ; Prior to ■ the performances those two clever dancers, Jack and George Hardgrove, earned rounds of applause for their eccentricities. :■; "Khaki" will be presented again tonight and to-morrow, the last Deduction-, of the season. ..being . "House -full on ; Wednesday... ~;i V-"..-i-- ...