FAMOUS BEN TRAVERS FARCE

Evening Star, Issue 21638, 6 February 1934, Page 5

FAMOUS BEN TRAVERS FARCE

LYNN AND WALLS IN I THARK ’ After one year of conspicuous success British Dominions Films Ltd. starts out on its second year of operation at the St. James on Friday with an array of all British attractions of greater quality than ever. To mark fittingly the occasion and to provide the merriest possible fare for nappy people, the specially selected attraction will be Ben Travers’s funniest Aldwych Theatre success, ‘ Thark,’ an hilarious farce-comedy with an unusual story that unfolds amid storm and tempest, and weird surroundings in a) haunted house. ... The funsters are the inimitable English team of Ralph Lynn and Tom Walls, who as uncle and nephew sell an old mansion with an evil reputation for spooks; and agree to prove that the place is immune from ghostly visitants by spending a night in one of its double beds, armed with a double-barrelled gun and a flask of dutch courage. The result is a gale of uncontrolled laughter from the audiences. When Mary Brough and Robertson Hare (with his own particular brand of dry humour) get going in support of Lynn and Walls the fun waxes fast and furious. Croivded houses have greeted ‘ Thark wherever it has been shown. There is on this programme another fins subject entitled ‘ With Cobham to Kivu,’ ivhich is classed as “the best j picture of its kind ever filmed.”