POX LAUGHTER FILM DELIGHTS PICTURE GOERS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6551, 7 March 1928, Page 8

POX LAUGHTER FILM DELIGHTS PICTURE GOERS

“THE GAY RETREAT 1 ' CRAMMED WITH ACTION AND ROMANCE. Those two irrepressible funmakcrs, Ted M'Namara and Sammy Cohen who won fame with their characterizations of the two marines in “What Price Glory” score again as 6 laugh producers time in Pox Films feature war comedy “The Gay Retreat,” which has its premiere at the Palace Theatre to-night. This delightful entertainment is not only a happy, rollicking take oil on the war but contains in addition thrills in plentiful measure, a double barreled romance and a story that is logical and motivated to the smallest details. The story deals with a slecp-wmlking son of a millionaire who enlists in the ambulance corps and his two self-appoint-ed body guards, who enlist with him. The boy leaves his sweetheart Red Cross nurse in his father's care and goes to Franco with his guardians in the wrong outfit. They are A.W.O.L. and that is the beginning of their troubles. What happens to them "-hen they got overseas and the French girls with whom they fall in love furnishes the materials for one of the best and most hilarious- stories ever filmed. Betty Francisco as the nurse, Judy King as the French girl, Gene Cameron as the boy, Holmes Herbert as the father, Jerry the Giant, as a little refugee and Charles Gorman as the hard boiled sergeant give splendid performances. But it is the team of Cohen and M'Namara who keep an audience happy and shouting with laughter by their inimitable characterizations,