TWO GOOD COMEDIES
Liberty Has “ Side Show ’ and “ Poor Old Bill.”
Two good comedies—“ Side Show” ! starring Winnie Lightner, and " Poor j Old Bill ” (Leslie Fuller) are featured * at The Liberty Theatre this week. The 1 setting of ” Side Show ” is a large circus ! 'the greatest show' on earth,” of I course—and most of the action takes I place either when the performance is in i full swing or when the members of the 1 company are travelling by train. As is* to be expected, the film is dominated I by Winnie Lightner, who finds a congenial role in the part of a determined young woman who by sheer force of character and vocal power, keeps the circus together in spite of arrears of pay. Besides this, she is invaluable to her employer because—to use her own words “in an emergency I can double for anyone id the show short of the fat lady and the living skeleton!” supporting picture is “Poor Old L'll, a. British International production which offers farce at its broadest. As in all Leslie Fuller pictures, the story wanders unrestrained through a number of ridiculous situations that are saved invariably by acting that never degenerates into the merelv vulgar.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 694, 22 February 1933, Page 3
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