ST JAMES THEATRE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 27, 31 July 1941, Page 12

ST JAMES THEATRE

A Lively Film,

The Andrews Sisters, perhaps the most popular swing vocal team in 'radio today, appear in "Buck Pirates," which begins its season at the St. James Theatre tomorrow. New songs they sing are "You're a Lucky Felilow, Mr. Smith," "I Wish You Were I Here," "Bounce Me, Brother, With a Solid Four," "When Private Brown Becomes a . Captain," and "BoogieWoogie Bugle Boy." In addition to these they give a swing version of the old "I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time." It is said that the film was made to brighten the prospect of conscription for American youth. It depicts part of army life so bright as to be quite fictitious, but this does not lessen its value as a comedy. There is very little sense in it, but it "is carried along by plenty of swing, and a lot of wise-cracking backchat. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are the most prominent in this. Abbott and Cqstellq are a couple of misfit youths in khaki in the army and everything happens to them from K.P. duty to "solitary" in the guardhouse, with Nat Pendletori their nemesis in the role of a hard-boiled sergeant. There is a nice thread of romance, too, in the picture, framed by a young "Sergeant Quirk," "Captain Flagg" rivalry, played by Lee Bowman and Alan Curtis, over the affections of a pert and pretty hostess, enacted by Jane Frazee.