THEATRE ROYAL.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20274, 27 June 1931, Page 4

THEATRE ROYAL.

"FEET FIRST." All the places and circumstances in which amusing things may happen have been introduced into the action of "Feet First," the picture which started a season at the Theatre Royal yesterday. Harold Lloyd has the loading part, and it is to him that the amusing things happen. At first his antics are very funny, but later in the picture they become not only funny, but hairraising. It teems that if a cat has nine lives, Harold Lloyd must have at least nineteen. He must be ranked as one of the best comedians of the talking screen. Ho is shown first as a clerk in a shoe store, where there is plenty of scope for the antics in which ho excels. In the spaco of a few minutes ho manages to drop a cigarette into a lady's shoe, and thus burn her foot, and then to tie her two shoes together. The fact that she is the wife of tho proprietor does not help him. To improve his salesmanship, he takes a correspondence course in "personality." Then he manages to get on to a liner. Ho has a very trying time in escaping the officers, who demand that he should pay for his ticket, and haß to resort to a good deal of cunning to got his meals. When he is eventually exposed he has a chanco to "mako good" if he can get a letter to Los Angeles within two days. He gets himself into some ridiculous positions, and through them all wearl an expression of pained surprise. For those: who can enjoy a really gpod comedy, with • fast-moving action, "Feet- First" is almost ideal. It provides an opportunity for a gobd laugh that no ono can afford to miss.