The Tivoli

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7068, 30 January 1933, Page 3

The Tivoli

time” can ever happen in any moving picture studio. None of the former ever thought a picture would be made from this excruciatingly funny and howlingly satirical play, or that any moving picture producer would have the nerve to make such fuu of the in- , dustry in which he was a prominont figure. They were both wrong, Carl ’ Lacmmle not only had the nerve to do it, but he felt that it was someone's duty to do it. The essence of humour is to appreciate a joke on yourself. “Once in a Lifetime” is a tremendous joke on the moving picture business, and it was up to somebody to show . that the moving picture business could take it on the chin and like it. That is exactly the thought in which Carl Lacmmle and Carl Lacmmle, junr., have brought this play to the screen and made the satire of recent years into this season’s most hilarious comedy j sensation. A matinee will bo held to* diffl at 2J& pun,

“ONCE IN A LIFETIME” * Truth is stranger than fiction, and in * tho case of the hilarious moving pic- . turc, “Once in a Lifetime,” •which is ( ( coming to the Tivoli thcatro to-day, is * much funnier. Moss Hart and George ; S. Kaufman, who had never been to 1 Hollywood, sat down in New York and [ from all the funny things they had heard about the moving picture busi- . ness, they wrote a play. The play ran J for two years ou Broadway. “Once in a a Lifetime” was hugely enjoyed by t moving picture people as well as by . the general public. None of the latter 11 ever dreamed that such unprecedented things as occur in “Once in a .bne- - n