DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 129, 2 June 1928, Page 7

DE LUXE THEATRE.

Karl Dane and George K. Arthur, who made such a hit in "Rookies," are even more amusing In "ilaby Mine," the hilarious -comedy, which was introduced to the Wellington public at Do Luxe Theatre last night. "Baby Mine was a most famous stage success. The story opens in the college, where Oswald is catapulted into a romance with Charlotte to give Arthur and Louise a eh nice to marry. Husband and wife have a quarrel, which the conspirators endeavour to putch up by. persuading U.me mat lie is a lather. Xne )fi(,n.l ii:ironi contracts measles from his son and iicir. which has been borrowed for the occasion, and when ■it discovers the hoax which has bc-'ii played upon him, he disposes <>r the infant, bUciung its face and his own to ■ cover up tho measles. But his collegei (hum is determine.! that bis friend shall nave a fonply, and lie surreptitiously smuggles infa'hts into ' the house until poor Oswald imagines that he lias a oaby farm. Charlotte Greenwood acts opposite to Karl Dane, and the love scenes are about the funniest things the screen has ever seen. A highly Interesting film dealing with the Paris Fair, a beautiful Government publicity subject revealing the glorious of the Wanganui River, and a bright comedy also figured on the new programme. The orchestra, under Mr. Emamiel Aarons. played "Czardas." from "Coppella Ballet,"1 as an overture, and "Kentucky Lullaby," in which organ and orchestra collaborated most successfully, as an entr'acte.