CRYSTAL PALACE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20022, 2 September 1930, Page 7

CRYSTAL PALACE.

"THE CUCKOOS." With those well-known comedians, Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler, in the leading parts, "The Cuckoos" at the Crystal Palace this week, is a riotous comedy which produces roars of spontaneous laughter from a delighted audience. It can be said that Wheeler and Woolsey are great comedians. Anyone can say funny things if the worda ore supplied by a clever author, but the saying of them with just the right facial contortion and clownish aotion of the body, as ia always done by either of this delightful pair, denotes the true artist. The actions and scene of thia great entertainment are constantly changing, and catchy songs are introduced, which with the well-trained ballets, form a delightful relief from the uproarious comedy of 1 Wheeler and Woolsey. Many of the scenes are in gorgeous technicolour, which display to the greatest effect the costumes of the ohoruß girls. Into the genoral action of the play are woven two love affairs, a kidnapping and a thrilling rescue, and a gang of murderous knife-throwing gypsies, through all of which run the mad pranks of Wheeler and Woolsey in their part of American for-tune-tellers in Mexico. At the mention of the word "devil" there is conjured up through the smoke of a gypsy campfire a bevy of girls, who, clad in magnificent horns and little elße, dance delightfully and with charming abandon to suitably devilish music. To summarise its sttraotions, "The Cuckoos" offer light and who!esomo entertainment with real comedy and fascinating music. The supporting programme includes a novrsreel and a short comedy.