NEW HAROLD LLOYD COMEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 5

NEW HAROLD LLOYD COMEDY.

"MOVIE CRAZY" FOR REGENT. The longest series of big laughs ever assembled in one motion picture sequence, are credited to Harold Lloyd's latest release, "Movie Crazy," with Constance Cummings, the first picture the bespectacled comedian has made in two years, which comes to-morrow to the Regent Theatre. Eight minutes of consecutive laugh-producing incidents have been rolled in one "faction" of "Movie Crazy."

Previous to the magician's coat sequence in "Movie Crazy," which sets the new laugh-making figures, Lloyd rated his greatest series of continuous laughter as the football scenes and the basted suit episodes in "College Days." In "Movie Crazy," one "(jag" rolls into another, and to the satisfied amazement of Lloyd, neither dialogue nor music is heard in the entire ballroom situation, which runs virtually the length of an entire reel.

There are three among the numerous laugh factions in "Movie Crazy" which stand out in relief, and it is going to be difficult to find the funniest. There is a scene which, for novelty and laughs, will be difficult to surpass; the magician's coat episode and the fight which climaxcs the story, any one of which would have been sufficient to carry a feature-length comedy to successful results. For length of sustained laughs, however, the magician's coat, or ballroom sequence, can claim the undisputed right to first place. For ten years, since the production of his epic, "Grandma's Boy," Harold Lloyd has sought to outdo the "fadeout" trick in that picture. You may recall the seenc where he carried the girl across a brook, stepped on what he thought was a big rock, and when he came to his senses, floundering in the water, saw a pig nonchalantly walking up the bank of the brook. It was a laugh "riot," and topped off what many still regard as the greatest silent corner.'" ever produced. In "Movie Crazy he ends with just the trick which; he sought for so many years. It is built around the breaking of a straw hat worn by a motionpicture producer in his story. The appealing heroine in "Movie Crazy" is vlayed bv Constance Cummings.