ENTERTAINMENTS.
ST. JAMES THEATRE. . If you want first-class comedy entertainment with added chills and thrills of the finest vintage, don’t on any account miss “The Ghost Breakers” showing to-night and finally on Monday. Boy Hope is simply tops as the radio commentator who so valiantly, with shaking knees, enters the horribly haunted castle of the beautiful heiress on the island outside Cuba. His chat is so funny and so witty you are laughing even while your hair standsstraight on end. His sidekick, Willie Best, is incomparable, and after Paulette Goddard swims the very seas to reach her inheritance, she makes . it super entertainment with-her, beauty, grace and smart repartee. Paul Lukas is the villain who wants to keep in-, traders out of the castle for his own benefit. It’s thrilling and spoofing in just the right proportions with ghosts and gags following each other in rapid succession. One minute you hold your breath in suspense, and the next moment you let it go in a side-splitting laugh. Bob Hope is at his best. Even the skeletons rattled in the closets from laughter when they weren’t busy scaring people half to death.- And, as an aside to the girls-r-and the boys—Paulette is something to see. • , . -
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 113, 22 February 1941, Page 2
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