COMEDY FOR THE OCTAGON

Evening Star, Issue 20024, 15 November 1928, Page 13

COMEDY FOR THE OCTAGON

UEGiXAUD DENXY’S LATESTA llcginuld Denny comedy generally proves a big attraction, and liis latest production, i Good. Morning, Jud^c 3 wliich mill have its initial screening at the Octagon- 'Theatre to-morrow night, should prove no exception to the rule. Denny turns out consistently good farces, and ho has a personality which is delightful in itself, and perhaps the greatest roasoip for his popularity. Ho is always quick and alert, if it ho in the pastime of outwitting the dull policeman, or telling an unblushing lio to his blonde,_ or explaining and expostulating to a judge of tho Supreme Court of tho United States. This is tiie sad story of a young man named Freddie and a beautiful blonde named Julia; some burglars and murderers and forgers aro also cheerfully mixed up in it, but nobody takes any notice ot a burglar or three these days. And to see Eeggio Denny dancing and prancing ns a criminal is a, sight to make tho 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 bo reformed. But is is hero that fate, in divers unpleasant forms, decides to take a hand. And, in the best Denny stylo, everything becomes hopelessly tangled, and Freddie looks more like a criminal than ever. In tho court scenes lie is undoubtedly at his funniest, ,11c behaves with a lack of melancholy and solemnity proper to the occasion that infuriates tho judge, prejudices the jury, and alienates the affections of Julia. .But everything goes as it should, even unto_ tho judge unbending in a creaky smile and tho lady condoning his masquerade. Mary. Nolan is the lady, and Otis Harlan and Dorothy Gulliver help things along.