PLAZA THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 226, 20 June 1936, Page 13

PLAZA THEATRE

“Jack of All Trades”

That prince of merrymakers, Jack Hulbert, is in his element in “Jack of all Trades,” the brilliant Gaumont-British musical comedy which headed the new programme at the Plaza Theatre yesterday. Hulbert is immense as a youtaful adventurer, who rises to dazzling heights by pure bluff and optimism . Before long he is lording it in a bank, ordering the directors about, ajid floating companies. Through the machinations of the Ifldy he loves, be soon has a fall, and finds himself a fireman in a shoe factory. However, he nonchalantly dances and sings through good and bad luck, and ends up a hero by rescuing his lady love from a spectacular fire. The film contains some of the snappiest musical numbers heard from the screen. Hulbert is first seen in evening dress dancing his way along a street, and singing “Where There’s You There’s Me.” Later a jolly scene in a restaurant finds him with twinkling toes tapping out the rhythm of “Tap Yoiir Tootsies,” and again in an exquisitely romantic setting beside a river he dances and sings, with his sweetheart, “You're Sweeter Than I Thought You Were.” In many of his dance numbers. Hulbert is partnered with Gina Malo, one of the cleverest and daintiest dancers on the screen to-day.