"TAKE MY TIP"

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23369, 8 December 1937, Page 7

"TAKE MY TIP"

JACK HULBERT COMEDY Jack Hulbert's latest comedy, "Take My Tip," will be the new attraction at the Grand Theatre today. Briefly, the story runs as follows .-—George (Jack Hulbert) and Hattie (Cicely Courtneidge), Lord and Lady Pilkington, are very fond of each other, but their individual extravagances lead to frequent quarrels. Then George, whilst taking a Turkish bath, is persuaded by a shady financier named Buchan to purchase a non-existent oil well for £ 15,000. which is the entire fortune of the Pilkingtons. Buchan, of course, disappears, and the couple are left to face the somewhat dismal future. However, a former butler in their household named Paradine turns up, proves to be the owner of a palatial hotel in Dalmatia, and offers them both positions there. They are obliged to accept, and Hattie—who was formerly a musical comedy actress—indulges in her former talents and becomes a wealthy coffee heiress, hostess at the hotel, and George performs the job of an ingratiating head waiter. While they are here in this guise, Buchan turns up and tries to put his oil-well story on the " Countess " in a very amusing scene wherein George, quite the jealous husband, pops in and out of the room with disconcerting results. At this point Hattie and George decide to get their own back from this adventurer, and the rest of the film depicts the adventures they have in playing a trick, similar to his own, upon him and recovering their fortune. Jack Hulbert is his charming, inimitable self and introduces a number of really clever dances; in one of these he is partnered by Cicely* with screamingly disastrous results. Frank Cellier is excellently cast as the ex-butler Paradine, and Harold Huth is just right as the sinister Buchan.