AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 45, 23 February 1931, Page 11

AMUSEMENTS.

PLAZA THEATRE.

Robert Wheeler and Bert Woolsey, the celebrated "Cuckoos," are, if anything, funnier in their latest comedy, "Half Shot at Sunrise," which is in its second successful week at the Plaza Theatre. They appear as two "doughboys," whose efforts to "win the war" are an unfailing source of merriment. Having incurred the enmity of their colonel, they escape from the military police by appropriating their superior officer's motor car, taking with them the colonel's attractive daughter and an appealing and vivacious French girl whom the colonel had been unsuccessfully attempting to woo. Much of the humour in which the story abounds is provided by the adventures and misadventures of the quartet in Paris, where the two men endeavour to regain the trust of their commander by accomplishing a delicate and hazardous piece of intelligence work. Instead, they bring down the wrath of the entire army 011 themselves and it is only with the aid of their feminine accomplices that they are able finally to emerge in the light of heroes. Throughout, the story is brimful of sparkling dialogue and witty repartee. Apart, however, .from the appeal which the picture holds from the 4 point of view of comedy it is replete with gorgeous settings and entrancing songs written by Harry Tierney, the composer of the musical scores of "Rio Rita" and "Dixiana." Included among the five songs which are introduced at appropriate intervals are "Riviera Moon," "On Parade," "Whistling the Blues Away" arid "Kiss Me, Cherie." MUNICIPAL BAND.

The Municipal Band, led by the bandmaster, Mr. G. Buckley, played a wellvaried programme of music at- the Zoological Park yesterday afternoon. A second recital was given at Albert Park last evening.