KARL DANE AND GEORGE K. ARTHUR STAR IN UPROARIOUS FARCE.

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

KARL DANE AND GEORGE K. ARTHUR STAR IN UPROARIOUS FARCE.

The management of Everybody’s Theatre are presenting a most interesting comedy programme this week. Karl Dane and George K. Arthur in “ Brorherly Love,” and Glenn Tryon and Barbara Kent in “ Lonesome,” are the two big comedies to be offered, and there will also be the usual bill of gazettes and short subjects. “ Brotherly Love ” concerns a prison warder, played by Karl Dane, who becomes embroiled in an argument with a fashionable little hairdresser, played with many exquisite mannerisms by George K. Arhtur. As a result the warden uses influence, ar.d has the minion cast into gaol. This gaol is the locale of the picture, surely a very original place. Once there, both men fall in love with the prison governor’s daughter: and then the fun begins. High jinks in a penitentiary, with the governor’s daughter alternately favouring the warden and the prisoner: plot and counter-plot, romance, everything, but always plenty of good, hearty fun. Jean Arthur is the lady in the case, and there is a football match between rival prisons that is one of the most priceless burlesques ever seen on the screen. In “ Lonesome,” Glenn Try-on does not devote himself exclusively to comedy, but tries his hand, most successfully, at a little of the sterner stuff. Mr Albert Bidgood has arranged a splendid musical programme for the Select Orchestra.