“ Take My Tip ” Courtneidge-Hulbert Farce

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 63, 16 March 1938, Page 11

“ Take My Tip ” CourtneidgeHulbert Farce

CRAZY SITUATIONS ENACTED BY POPULAR TEAM (Meteor: Screening Friday.) In “Take My Tip” Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtreiclge present their most brilliant comedy. Not letting up on crazy situations, witty dialogue, tuneful numbers and lavish settings for one moment of the odd hour and a few minutes that it takes to screen, “Take My Tip” careers along a laughtermaking careers that hits home. It is indeed a long time since* wo have had the jdeasure of seeing Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge together in a film. One of, if not the first of their co-starring pictures was “Jack’s The Boy,” a comedy that showed them off to exceptional advantage, and although their subsequent appearances have been in outstanding vehicles none has come up to the standard of this first film. At least, not until they made their welcome re-appearance as a humour team and once again entered the Gaumout-British studios to make “ Take My Tip. ’ ’ Jack Hulbert is his eharming, inimitable self and introduces a number of really clever dauces; in one of these he is partnered by Cicely with screamingly disastrous results. Never has the versatility of Cicely Courtneidge been so wittily demonstrated, appearing as she does in numerous disguises whilst at the hotel. And as herself in the beginning, she has never looked so attractive before any camera. The songs arc all good and Philip Buchel partners Jack Hulbert in one of his dances with noticeable success. Frank Cellier is excellently cast as the ex-butler, Paradine, and Harold Huth is Just right as the sinister Buchan.