COMEDY TEAM DOES FINE WORK IN “ THE COHENS AND KELLYS.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18787, 17 June 1929, Page 7

COMEDY TEAM DOES FINE WORK IN “ THE COHENS AND KELLYS.”

Charlie Murray and Kate Price teamed as the Kellys, and George Sidney and Vera Gordon teamed as the Cohens, the twain with sons and daughters who would be Abie’s Irish Rose, form, in the screen comedy, “The Cohens and the Kellys,” one of the few genuine comedy gems of the screen. The picture will be presented at Crystal Palace Theatre this week. Picturegcers will possibly remember “The Cohens end the Kellys in Paris,” screened in this city a twelve-month since. Funny as the Parisian adventure was the Cohens and the Kellys are a thousand times more droll in their own backyard in the New York Eastside, which is the locale for this picture. Charlie Murray, as Kelly, plays a policeman, rather a crusty policeman; and George Sidney, fat and small and fussy, is the keeper rf a clothing shop. Their spouses, Kate Price and Vera Gordon, are as affectionate and as wise, and as quarrelsome as their lords, but these two women impart a subtlety to their work that is a joy to watch. Mr Alfred Bunz has arranged the following musical programme for the Symphony Orchestra: Overture, “Humours of Donnybrook” <Volti>, “Shamus O’Brien” (Stanford), “Juliska.” (Bodige), “Kosakish” (Huaenscliild), “The Rosary’’ (Nevin), “Sunrise on Derry” (Lyle), “Lily of Killarney" (Benedict), “Marie” (Berlin) Box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company, where patrons should book seats.