NEW SCREEN COMEDIAN
BERT LAHR COMING TO STRAND It takes a clever person to act the fool at top pitch all tho time and still prevent tho watcher’s interest from slipping, and that Bert Lahr is able to do this in ‘ Flying High,’ coming to tho Strand on Friday, supplies the reason why he has won tho title of “ the most imitated comedian on Broadway.” This is a real musical comedy, which means that in addition to comedy there is plenty of tuneful music and dozens of pretty girls in dazzling danco enscblcs. There arc four big song numbers, of which ‘ The Happy Landing chorus is the most lilting and at tho same time the most spectacularly presented. Tho mass effects here are novel and colourful in the extreme, and plainly reveal tho hand of Busby Berkeley, the man who made ‘ ’Whoopee.’
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Evening Star, Issue 21099, 11 May 1932, Page 5
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142NEW SCREEN COMEDIAN Evening Star, Issue 21099, 11 May 1932, Page 5
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