Hilarious Ben Travers’ Farce

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 301, 15 September 1933, Page 16

Hilarious Ben Travers’ Farce

YVHEN picture-goers see Tom Walls ’' and Ralph Lynn in their latest Ben Travers’ farce, “Thark,” which they have made for British Dominions Films, they are going to laugh all through the show, and will, in all probability, continue to chuckle after they leave the theatre. “Thark” is a slight departure from the usual Travers type of story, for it is a burlesque mystery thriller. It tells of complications, love, misunderstandings, and all the usual

German actors and actresses are to be forbidden to earn double incomes by fulfilling screen and stage engagements simultaneously until work has been found for unemployed artists.

ingredients that go to make up a Ben Travers tale, and introduces an allegedly haunted room, the scenes in which are, without doubt, the funniest ever screened. Walls and Lynn are seen ns the occupants of the room, and what doesn’t happen In the course of a few hours isn’t worth happening. Their screamingly funny adventures are shared by Claude Hulbert, and a number of well-known stars, including the one and only Mary Brough, who is as truculent and as amusing as ever. The two men, of course, dominate the show. “Thark’ is a genuine gloom-chaser, and is certainly one of the year’s best releases.

T'LORIA STUART Is one star who '“J has really done things. She has been editress of a newspaper, a stage actress, intercollegiate swimming champion of the University of Southern California; she is one of the few women polo players; and she was once “posted” from Hollywood to New York by airmail by Universal Studios. It took 25,000 one cent stamps to “post” her.

A MAZING scenes were witnessed both inside and outside the London Paladium recently, where Ramon Navarro, the film star, made his first appearance in London. Hundreds and hundreds of women and girls packed the alley leading to the stage door, and six policement had to be commandeered from Marlborough Street to get Navarro out of his car into the theatre.

RICHARD ARLEN has an “admirer” who, for years has been supplying him with boxes containing burnt matches, pieces of string and assorted newspaper clippings. None of the last-mentioned have anything to do with Arlen or the motion picture business. Arlen, who is one of the screen’s most popular younger stars, says he cannot imagine what he has done to deserve such treatment.