“THE LAST COUPON.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 643, 22 December 1932, Page 3

“THE LAST COUPON.”

Leslie Fuller in Bright Comedy. “.This Sporting Age” will he shown for the last time at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday night. “The Last Coupon,” a rollicking comedy featuring the inimitable rubberfaced comedian, Leslie Fuller, will begin a season at the Majestic Theatre on Monday. Fuller, who made such a hit in “ To-night’s the Night,’’ as the jubilant convict, this time appeal s as a dent football enthusiast, he spends hispare time in filling up football coupons and is successful in forecasting one result for which a prize of £20,000 is offered. Bill (Leslie Fuller) and his pal. Oeordie (Jimmy Uoddeii) are busy training their respective boxing champions for whom they are putting up £25 apiece, when Bill’s good fortune comes to light. The entire village repair to the “ local,” where they regale themselves ” putting it down to Bill Carter,” but Bill’s wife succumbs to unknown fears, which are in no way allayed by her husband’s ” high-falut-in’” talk of ” goin’ to Lunnon.” Her subsequent dreams prove both 4 ‘ rich and strange,” but the reality is even strangei*. How Bill loses the fight but wins the money and what happens to the £20,000 and Mrs Bill’s peace of thing genuinely hilarious and unique in film entertainment. An excellent supdudes Mary Jerrold, who makes a great personal hit in the role of Bill’s wife; Molly Lamont, who as Bill's daughter Betty, falls in love with Jack Hobbs, the local doctor; Harry Carr, the only member of the original West End cast, who is badly knocked about, by the doctor in a boxing match ostensibly for £25, put up by Bill and his pal Cieordie, but actually for the hand of Molly; and Marion Dawson, whose antics as the neighbour who is always borrowing something, will provoke yells of merriment from the aucWence. Varied and striking backgrounds include the Albert Hall on the occasion of a. boxing championship; a sumptuous modern flat in Mavfair and a coal mine.