HILARIOUS BRITISH COMEDY

Evening Star, Issue 21628, 25 January 1934, Page 7

HILARIOUS BRITISH COMEDY

OCTAGON'S PROGRAMME FOR TO-MORROW" Two very entertaining features, ‘Excess Baggage ’ and ‘ Scarlet River,’ will be included on the new programme which will start at the Octagon Theatre to-morrow. , . . ‘ Excess Baggage' is an hilarious comedy with a cast of stars headed by Claude (“ Spcofy ”)' Allistcr and Frank Pettingell. the inimitable North Country comedian. ‘ They recently appeared together in other popular comedies, ‘ The Medicine Man ’ and ‘ That’s My Wife.’ Briefly, the plot of the film is as follows :—Colonel Murgatroyd has a heated altercation with his C. 0., General Booster, and strikes him over the head with a bottle.. Believing the general to be dead, he sets. out. with the aid oi" his wife, Martha, to dispose of the body. It is put in a trunk, but | by mistake the trunk is exchanged for one owned by the Duchess of Bilhvulcr, and is carried into a house supposed to be haunted by a ghost. From thenco on things become very involved and lead'to lively fooling before the general and Murgatroyd bury the hatchet. The supporting feature, ‘ Scarlet River,’ is a. story .of Western adventure and romance, and stars Tom Keene, who, as a dashing cowboy, fights it out with the bad men of the West. '