STANLEY LUPINO TURNS BOHEMIAN

Evening Star, Issue 21822, 11 September 1934, Page 11

STANLEY LUPINO TURNS BOHEMIAN

HILARIOUS FARCE FOR REGENT Enthusiastically acclaimed as the laughter successor to his ‘ Sleepless Nights ’ and 1 You Made Me Love You,’ Stanley Lupino’s new musical comedy, ‘ Happy,’ the cast of which includes some four or five other comedians, comes to the Regent Theatre on Friday. In this picture Stanley will be seen as an impecunious musician, starving in a Parisian garret, with Laddie Cliff as his partner in adversity. Stanley has invented a device whereby car stealing will be abolished, the only snag being that the machine will not work! Falling in love with a charming blonde (played by Dorothy Hyson), he tries'desperately to interest an American millionaire insurance broker in his new gadget, not knowing he is the girl’s father. Complications, many and varied, arise, but in the end every-thing-turns out in such a. manner as to render everybody happy, the audience included.

Some of the most hilarious sequences ever imagined occur at a big chateau party to which the millionaire is taken by Stanley’s landlord (Will Fyffe). The inventor is there to conduct the band, but the insurance man is under the impression that he is host, an impression that the hapless musician has to holster up, even though it involves him in a number of farcical adventures, including a feminine masquerade! As well as irrepressible Stanley, the cast includes a number of other exceedingly nopular comedians, including Laddie Cliff, Will Fyffe, and Gus MacNaughton, whilst the charming Dorothv Hyson plays the feminine lead. Incidentally, this is Will Fyffc’s first picture, apart from a brief appearance in ‘ Ejstree Calling.’ together stilt, with Lupino. Laddie Cliff—what a trio, the famous Scotch comedian provides irresistible fun.