CRYSTAL PALACE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20021, 1 September 1930, Page 5

CRYSTAL PALACE.

"THE CUCKOOS. 5 ' At Crystal Palace Theatre this week "The Cuckoos" trill be presented. Robert Wool. bC y and Bert Wheeler, the two unforgettable comedians of "Rio Rita," have this picture all to themselves. They are to « ,e can screen what Ralph Lynn and Tom wans aro to the West End stage, a asses who are perfectly m.dtoh other'a thine they do; perfect foils f ° r wit. In "The Cuckoos they app-ear as two fortuno-tellers practising their Bftaay business in a small and mythical South American State where a revoiution is £°"J eni u ently brewing. A noisome bandit leader, u fair lady, a distracted lover, a CO f mamma, and—the two cuckoos—audthere.y the nucleus of the year u best comedy, rhe story may be classed as musical comedy romance, for Woolaey and Wheeler ore very eager to burst into «on2 at the slightest provocation, and their vocal efforts are every whit as funny a3 their broad comedy-making There are some beautiful ballets m the production, a pleasing love romance between June Clyde and Hugh Trevor, storn menace from Mitchell Lewis and Jobyna Howland. But though all those things help to make "The Cuckoos" an even brighter ana more complete show, the picture belongs exclusively to Woolsey and Wheeler. It has t this ad vantage, too, over other x>fctureui has a little of everything, from melodrama, to the incomparable slapstick of tho cuckoos. Effort* should be made by intending patrons to reserve ceats at Tho Bristol Piano Coin* pany.