BRIGHT COMEDY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 8 February 1927, Page 13

BRIGHT COMEDY.

"POTASH AND PERLMUTTER" AND. "BUCKAROO KID." NEW PROGRAMME AT LIBERTY. Love and laughter have been happily blended in the new programme presented to a capacity home at Liberty Theatre last night. Abraham Potash and Morris Pcrlmutter, formorly garment manufacturers, after a struggle- with the motion picture business, dissolved partnership following one of their vety exhausting and entertaining arguments. Now, in "Partnera Again," the United Artists release produced by Samuel Goldwyn, Abo nnd "Mawrus" are working together, not altogether harmoniously, as solo agents for the wonderful "Scherckum Six," a vehicle Vhich smelt and looked like an automobile. They were the 9 ole agents because men in the same business knew that everything about the "Scherckum Six" made n noise except the horn. Trying to u?c both hands and explain why "this is a car, lady, that ridea like an ambulance," they aprain become overheated and dissolve partnership, Abe waddling home to his fat and lovable Hosie and a hot mustard bath, while Mawrus sialkn off cnfiwing a cigrar butt, and cursing tho tenderness of his late partner. So Abe signs a, contract to take over the rights of an invention produced by a friend of bis wife's pet nephew, Pansiki, which is claimed to moan to the motor industry what Edison's name moant to „thc telephone. Of course, complications set in when Abe and his scores of inventors discover tho "crook, and there aro innumerable laughs when Abe palavers with tho judge and a jury, which includes some of his Yiddish friends. Tho ending j* very clover and satisfying. "Partners Again" contains an abundance of clean, wholesome humour, and many piquant subtitles. The palm for acting honours is easily taken by George Sidney as Abe, and Alexander Carr as "Mawrus." Romance in the golden west is well presented in "Tho Buekaroo Kid," featuring the prince of cowboy stars, Hoot Gibison. It is a Carl Laemmle picture, telling how Ed. Hurley, an orphan youngster, battled lone-* handed against the pitfalls in his life, and eventually won out. It is ft tale of CBttle men, set in the cattle town of Wynian. Hoot Gibson gives ft striking portrayal or the hero, and is admirably assisted by Ethel Shannon. , Minor pictures include ono issued by the. New Zealand Government Publicity Department entitled "White Mantle." dealing with the snowfields in the North Island; a Felix Cat cartoon, "Eats are West." and an Internationnl News. Under Mr Ernest Jamieson the Liberty, Concert Orchestra played appropriate music.