REGINALD DENNY AGAIN

Evening Star, Issue 20023, 14 November 1928, Page 11

REGINALD DENNY AGAIN

STARRED IN BRIGHT COMEDY Patrons at the Octagon Theatre next Friday are to bo served with Reginald Denny’s latest mirth-provoker, with the title of ‘ Good Morning, Judge,’ and if his pictures of the past are of any criterion, an excellent bill of faro should he on order. The picture is the story of a young man named Freddie and a beautiful blonde named Julia; some burglars, murderers, and forgers are also cheerfully mixed up in it, but nobody takes any notice of a burglar or three these days. And to see Reggio Denny dancing and prancing as a criminal is a sight to make the angels weep. Ho studies up criminals and their methods with a ferocity that is appalling; adopts their ways and their clothes and their speech; "and then agrees to be reformed. But it is here that fate, , in divers unpleasant forms, decides to ; take a hand. And, in the best Denny 1 stvle, .everything becomes hopelessly i tangled, and Freddie looks more -like a criminal than over. In the court scenes ho is undoubtedly at Ins funniest. He behaves with a lack of ' melancholy and solemnity proper to the occasion that infuriates the pudge, prejudices the jury, and alienates the affections of Julia. But everything goes as it should, even unto unbending in a creaky smile and ■'-the I lady condoning his masquerade. Alary i Nolan is the lady, and Otis Harlan and Dorothy Gulliver help things along. But Reggie Denny is the whole show, and ‘Good Morning, Judge,’ is one of the best.