ENGLISH COMEDY

Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 21

ENGLISH COMEDY

* EXCESS BAGGAGE ’ AT GREEN ISLAND The English comedy, ‘ Excess Baggage,’ which will be shown at the Green Island Cinema to-uight, starts out by being frankly an extravaganza. It begins on a note of'complete and comical absurdity and maintains the absurdity and comicality all the way through to the very end in a manner which should assure it of its quota of laughs from any type of audience. The protagonists in the comedy melange are a general and a lesser officer and, to a considerable extent, a detective, all of whom at various stages are forced to assume grotesque disguises and arc mistaken cither for each other or else for ghosts. A dastardly murder which has not really been committed complicates the mix-up. The trouble starts when Colonel Murgatroyd (played by Claude Allister) gets so annoyed with General Booster that he hits him over the head, and, thinking him dead, places him in a trunk. Fortune takes all the principals to a house in a little village of Mudflats, whore there is much hiding, gei timr, into and out of trunks, (lie colonel and Jiis wife assuming the dis-

cube o) foreigners, the genera) being frequently mistaken for a. ghost) anu a detective being taken for both the gbost and the colonel. The other picture features ipm Keene in ‘ Scarlet River,’ an exciting Western drama.