BOTH THEATRES TO-NIGHT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 31 December 1923, Page 5

BOTH THEATRES TO-NIGHT.

OPERA HOUSE AND THE GRAfHX "BELL BOY 13."

Douglas Maclean is back again. This time he plays the title part of the "buttons" in "Bell Boy 13," a merry hotel mix-up with a thousand rooms and a thousand laughs. He had to become a bell boy because he could not keep his mind on business and love at the same time, and his rich old uncle cut him off without a penny. He gave him the air—and a good stiff breeze at that! But what are difficulties when one is young and in love? He became a bell boy, "Bell Boy 13/' and then things happened. Uncle got in the wrong room—when he wanted ice water, Bell Boy 13 got him into hot water, and uncle could not ■get him fired because- —well, that's part of the story. Say "Douglas Maclean'' and you laugh at the_ recollection of his adventures in the greatest racing comedy ever screened, namely, "The Hottentot." If you laughed at "The I Hottentot" you will scream at "Bell i Boy 13," Maclean's latest comedy. He has never put over such a funny characterisation as that of the bell boy with the unlucky number. Always at? his best in roles of every day chaps who just naturally can't help bungling their own affairs and those of everyone around them, he is in his element as the "buttons" who gets into a scrape every time he turns round, and who manages to hold up the entire routine of the hotel before he has had his job for half an hour.