EVERYBODYS THEATRE
DOUGLAS MACLEAN IN "GOING UP”; TO-NIGHT’S HOLIDAY ■ ■: ATTRACTION.
A real holiday attraction occupies pride of [ hue "on the programme screening to-night at Everybody’s. It is tlie_ sparkling, racy comedy ‘•Going Up,” based on the equally, famous musical play of the same name. • The picture was frankly built solely for laughing purpose's, and is funny from beginning to end, without a single lagging scene. The screen story might well servo as a model for comedy producers It is usually coherent, filled v.dth suspense and excitement, while the laugh-provoking situations convert a pretty drama into a'riotous comedy cnee more to_ demonstrate' how much more Can be done on the screen than on the stagei The role of Robert Street fits Douglas Maclean like a new kid glove. There are Some remarkably flying scenes in the picture—the sort that drag an audience to the edves of the seats and permit it to sink, back with a loud laugh when a dose-up of Mr. Maclean reveals that .he has-escaped, that danger and is still battling 'heroically to subdue his pirouetting! plane. The supports f delude- ‘"Why : the Rush?” (comedy). ‘-Bi-jck Magic” ■ <Patm> Interest) and Pot he’ Gazette. .
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10139, 27 October 1925, Page 6
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