"I SEE ICE"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23106, 3 August 1938, Page 16

"I SEE ICE"

OUTSTANDING COMEDY The inimitable comedian George Kormbv appears in the hilarious comedy "1 See Ice," which is to commence a season at the Regent Theatre on Friday. The theme is admirably handled by a cast which includes Kay Walsh, Betty Stock field, Cyril Kitohnrd, Gary Marsh and Frederick Burtwell. Form by takes the role of George Bright, a photographer's assistant who is not particularly successful in his line, chiefly owing to the intimate interest he takes in the clients of his employer. Although ho is a poor photographer Bright is something of an inventive genius and he makes a camera so small that it can be concealed in a match box and his ambition is to become a press photographer. At a railway station he meets Judy (Kay Walsh), who immediately evinces (in interest in Bright that displeases her stage partner Paul Martine (Cyril Ritehard). Bright passes his station and to save being carried on to .London pulls the communication cord which liearly results in his being sent to prison. The girl .Judy comes to his rescue with a disguise which enables him to escape the vigilance of the ticket collector at Euston. Bright is offered a position as property man for Martine, who is to tako a part in an act on ice, an element foreign to tho photographer. He learns .that a celebrity Jlermanoff is in the audience and Bright determines to take his photograph and sell it to a newspaper. He secures tho print which shows tho celebrity, but which also includes the editor (if tho newspaper in too friendly converse with a lady with whom he lias been told bv tho proprietor of tho paper to avoid.' When Bright arrives with the incriminating photograph tho editor nt once suspects blnclotmil nwu does all in his power to secure tho negative. At a night club tho photographer is pursued by two detectives determined to rob him of the negative which ho has, however, already traded away. He is incarcerated in prison by the efforts of tho railway authorities who have learned of his whereabouts, but is later released. 110 finds that tho photograph has been responsible for Judy securing an engagement to daneo on the ice at intervals in an ice-hockey match and lie is offered a position on a newspaper if lie will secure pictures of the game. Bright is put in the referees' box and the removal of tho referees through the machinations of others necessitates his going on tho ico to control the match. The film is brought to an uproarious climax, which leads 'to the happiness of Bright and i.be girl Judy.