"TOPPER TAKES A TRIP."

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 109, 11 May 1939, Page 16

"TOPPER TAKES A TRIP."

AMUSINO FARCE FOR PLAZA.

A direct eequel to the screen version ot "Tppper," J'hor'ne .Smith's hilarioiw iHiee comedy, "Topper Takes u Trip," ia to open at the Plaza Theutro to-morrow. Hie original "Topper" came to Auckland virtually "unheralded and unminj;," but it proved one of the most amusiiii? comedies neen here. So successful in.lend was it nil over the world that Hul JJoach. the producer, wua prompted to put Thome •Smith's sequel on tlie ecrocn as well. "Topper Takes a Trip" vrtu produced ju»t as lavishly an its predct-eedcr, altiiou«h there is perhaps, a slight tendency to tire of the impossible always happening towards the end of the film. Those who liave already seen it, however, are unanimous in their opinion that there have been few funnier «tenes than that in j which a romantic French baron has his' iiithiriK tnmk« ripped off him on the I bench at tlio Kivieru by an invisible ConKtarice BiTinett. In addition to the gnimnrous Connie, as Marion Kerby, the «'•■! «ho i-Hii dfiiiaterialiHP .it will, there' "7V i, nt ', thr ' ".'-'K'l'Hl "Topper" cast »'«-:.!. Roland Yo,,n« | M ,„,!,,„ in the t th P in,:, r ,.,! little banker. Toppor, i i< v.-l.t.r "' V I " l V'" , Hln, >^> U «.li his in to X 1P " ' e foll,,W!< his "Uf to .■ i,,., ,' Uo ""' :' 'woni-ilwtion with i, ".',,,'• 'IT." 1 ; 1 /* , ' - -" ,, " , ; ,, -'- '" linn ho