“COLLEGE HUMOUR.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 939, 8 December 1933, Page 3

“COLLEGE HUMOUR.”

Sparkling Musical Comedy for Theatre Royal.

“I Cover the Waterfront,” the superb drama in which the leading roles are taken by Ben Lyon, the Jate Ernest Torrence and Claudette Colbert, will be shown finally to-night at the Theatre Royal. The supports include a fashion display on the stage. *'College Humour,” a sparkling musical production, packed with wit, catchy songs, beautiful girls and romance, will be featured at the Theatre Royal tomorrow. It is a musical comedy done in the new style which is becoming so popular on the screen—a picture in which the music, the comedy, the dances and the other char-

aeteristics of this type of entertainment are part of the plot, instead of being- extra scenes dom. An impressive and versatile all-star cast is featured in “ College Humour.” Bing Crosby, Richard Arlen. Mary Carlisle, Jack Oakie, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Lona Andre and Mary Kornman (who between them repre-

sent stage, screen and radio") play lending roles in the picture; and the “OxRoad Co-Eds,” a comely chorus of beauties, prance in and out of the action. Advance reports state that “College Humour ” is a story about university life, not as it actually is, but as it ought to be. The action takes place at a mythical American college, where teachers and graduates cynically watch the students making love and playing football, and wonder just how long it will be before the glitter wears off and the youngsters become disillusioned. But the students, not at all disconcerted, put vim into their romances and vigour into their football; and if they fail to shine in mathematics they do unusually well in their singing and dancing. It is a crazy, boisterous story, without a great deal of sanity—but that is exactly what it is intended to be. and it is said to prove most entertaining and diverting.