HULBERT'S COMEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 198, 22 August 1935, Page 11

HULBERT'S COMEDY.

PLAZA'S "BULLDOG JACK."

Those were good days when every fewweeks the picture patrons could be sure of seeing a hair-raising tarce concerning runaway trains, motor cars, merry-go-rounds, or jtoboggans. Thus "Bulldog Jack," which is to bo presented to-morrow at the Plaza Theatre, with Jack and Claude Hulbert sharing comedy honours and Fay Wray, of Hollywood, as heroine, is all the more welcome because it belongs to an almost vanished era. When Jack Hulbert, acting as substitute for Bulldog Drummoud, who is in hospital, gets to grips with a gang or jewel forgers, the picture becomes most exhilarating. Devil-may-care Jack Peunington (Jack Hulbert) stalks the enemy to his lair, which is ya deserted underground railway station, and has a series of dazzling adventures there. He slides down a spiral staircase on an upturned table, uses boomerangs against the malefactors in the course of a midnight skirmish in the British Museum, and, at length, finds himself on a runaway tube train, which the demented villain-in-chief is driving to destruction aloop an underground railway line.