GRAND

Evening Star, Issue 23496, 9 February 1940, Page 11

GRAND

It is doubtful if Will Hay has ever done anything so absurdly funnj; as the hilarious character sketch which ho presents in ‘ Ask a Policeman,’ which is tho principal attraction at the Grand. Hay is one of three extremely bucolic policemen whose lives have, for about 10 years, fallen in pleasant places. There has been such a remarkable absence of crime that the chief constable determines ho may ns well do away with the police force altogether. The result is consternation among Hay and his two fellow-officers—Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott—and they put three somewhat rusty heads together and work out a crime. Smuggling is to be the crime, and the technique of it is to be that a keg of brandy will be put on the beach by two of the policemen and in the presence of witnesses by the third, who will immediately report the find to tho chief constable. Just as the third policeman and his witnesses are to make the momentous discovery, there is brought home to the three luckless ones that a real smuggler has been at work. A thrilling story of a modern Robin Hood is the associate feature. ‘ Crackerjack.’ The famous English actor, Tom Walls, is ‘ Crackerjack.’ a man of many disguises, and he first comes into the story as a young man of apparently unlimited means who is flying from the Continent to England on a cross-Channel plane.