SUCCESSFUL PICTURE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20285, 20 April 1934, Page 3

SUCCESSFUL PICTURE.

“ A Cuckoo in the Nest ” to Run Second Week. “ A Cuckoo in the Nest,” starring the inimitable Lynn-Walls combination, which appeared with such success in Rookery Nook,” will enter the second week of its successful season at the I ivoli Theatre to-morrow. It has all the elements of the traditional Aldwych Lynn-Walls successes. First produced by the incomparable Lynn-Walls company at the Aldwych Theatre London, in 1925, " A Cuckoo In the Nest also features the entire company, cf which Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Mary Brough and Robertson Hare are the chief players. The original combination on both stage and screen included Winifred Shotter in the ingenue role, but since she accepted a position as a star in her own right her place in “ A Cuckoo In the Nest ” is taken by Yvonne Arnaud, the attractive little brunette who starred with s m “Canaries Sometimes - mg. The film is further enhanced in entertainment value by the fact that it boasts a dialogue and story by Ben 1 ravers, king of English farcewriters. It is so full of absurdities—as any robust farce should be—that vou almost accept the earnestness of om W alls and Ralph Lynn as being genuine. “A Cuckoo In'the Nest” is c-ne long laugh. Good “shorts” are also screened.