AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20776, 9 February 1933, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

THEATRE ROKAL. "MOVIE CRAZY." SAID TO BE HAROLD LLOYD'S FUNNIEST. "Lady and Gent" will be sciccncd for tile last time to-morrow night. Said to be the funniest picture Harold Loyd has over produccu, "Movie Crazj i~ the big attraction which will be seen at the Theatre Royal on Saturday. Lloyd symbolic of good wliolesomo comedy, ana that is the kind of faro that theatre patrons want a lot of these days. In addition, tli film proves that two years of silence Ha\e only served to mature and perlcct me popular comedian's ait. . Constance Cumminga heads a ® u PP or *£?° cast that is of exceptional excellence. Her role is an exacting one, but she lives ui to' its every requirement. Tho second ma e lead is competently handled by Kennet Thompson, and Louiso Closßer Hulc, a, co medienno of tried ability, shares honour with tho star in the most hilarious of the many hilarious sequences. Lloyd himself has never been in " nor form than for his role of a, movie-strui-K boy from a small town who "crashes tho gates of Hollywood. Ho baa mado tho character a lovable, human one, and has pliiccu him in a stovy that is filled "with laughter from beginning to end. According to o'io critic, he should be awarded a medal tot producing the best cure for gloom that lias appeared oil the ecrcen since 39'29. In connexion with the screening of 'Movie Craiy" at the Theatre Royal on Saturday, tho will bo specially fitted up as a film studio, and the Christchureh competitors in the Cadbury, Fry, and Hudson screentest3 will appear. The finalists will co™" peto with those /torn Auckland and >\e]uiJg" ton in the Dominion final.