SPARKLING COMEDY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20281, 16 April 1934, Page 3

SPARKLING COMEDY.

“Britannia of Billingsgate” at Majestic. Picture-goers will appreciate the typically British humour of “ Britannia of Billingsgate,” the sparkling satirical comedy which opened at the Majestic Theatre to-day. In this film GaumontBritish again demon~trate their flair for producing comedy that makes instantaneous appeal to the majority of theatre-goers. Violet Loraine and Gordon Harker are the arch fun-makers, and the flow of merriment never ceases in this rare and joyous story. Violet Loraine, fresh from London

stage triumphs, makes her screen debut as Mrs Bilton, the fish porter’s wife who is suddenly “ discovered ” and pitchforked into film work. She makes of Bessie an intensely human character, whether in the atmosphere of tie Billingsgate fish and chip shop which is her own homely world, or in that ot the seething maelstrom of London life, under the glare of publicity that is inseparable from film fame. Gordon Harker, the famous Cockney character comedian, is ideally cast as her husband. Box plans at the D.I.C.