KING’S THEATRE, STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1934, Page 8

KING’S THEATRE, STRATFORD.

“HAPPY” VERY POPULAR. Enthusiastically acclaimed as the laughter successor to his “Sleepless Nights” and “You Made Me Love You,” Stanley Lupino’s new musical comedy “Happy,” the cast of which includes some four or five other comedians, commences at the King’s Theatre to-day. In this picture Stanley will be seen as an. impecunious musician, starving in a Parisian garret, with Laddie Cliff as his partner in adversity. Stanley has invented a device whereby car stealing will be abolished, the only snag being that the machine will not work! Falling in love with a charming blonde (played by Dorothy Hyson), he tries desperately to interest an American millionaire insurance broker In his gadget, not knowing he is the girl’s father. Complications, many and varied, arise, but in the end everything turns out in such a manner as to render everybody “happy,” the audience included. Some of the most hilarious sequences ever imagined occur at a big chateau party to which the millionaire is taken by Stanley’s landlord (Will Fyffe). The inventor is there to conduct the band, but the insurance man is under the impression that he is host, an impression that the hapless musician has to bolster up, even though it involves him in a number of farcical adventures, including a feminine masquerade! Every now and then the star has his supporting cast break into song and dance, these items being introduced to form a logical part of the story. ELTHAM TALKIES. “LONE COWBOY.” “Lone Cowboy,” a new type of outdoor romance, with tow-headed Jackie Cooper in the starring role, will be shown at the Eltham Theatre to-night and Monday night. While the yarn is laid against a background of the wide-open Nevada plains and mountains, it is not the usual “Western” in any sense of the word. It is a fine, heart-warming drama of a wideeyed kid from the tenements of Chicago. Jackie’s father, his best pal, is caught in a larceny jam. and rather than have the boy face the disgrace and shame, he sends Jackie out West to an old friend, who is continually moving from place to place, eternally searching with a killer’s look in his eye. Its effect on the boy is the story. The supporting cast includes Lila Lee, Addison Richards, a newcomer to the screen, John Wray and Gavin Gordon-