GEORGE WALLACE FILM

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20341, 26 June 1934, Page 3

GEORGE WALLACE FILM

Regent to Show “ A Ticket in Tatts.” George Wallace, the popular Australian comedian, adds to his laurels with 1 his clever work in the Efftee produc- : tion, “ A Ticket in Tatts,” which comes to the Regent on Saturday. The pic- • ture ’rivals the funniest of Hollywood • features. At the outset Wallace is a ; grocer’s assistant and gets into all sorts of troubles in his well-meaning but disastrous efforts to please customers. : Then he becomes a stableman protecting Hotspur, the Melbourne Cup favourite, from the unwelcome attentions of a gang of city crooks, and he rises to heights of sheer buffoonery that leave the audience helpless with laughter. The scenes include glimpses of Flemington on Cup Day, with thousands of people thronging , the picturesque course, and the interior of a lavish cabaret where George is a pseudo-waiter in borrowed “ tails ” and a walrus moustache, disguised jh order to hear the gang’s plans. A picture of unusual interest is “Dear Old London,” which was made by Claude Flemming for the managing director of E:tee Film Productions (F. W. Thring), who believed that a film exploiting the world’s greatest metropolis from a new angle would prove popular. This film will be screened with “ A Ticket in Tatts.” It opens wuth “ shots ” of ships steaming up the Thames. FTcm the river the film dissolves into the middle of Piccadilly Circus, and then takes in all the best-known sights of London, together with some that are less well known. Australia House and New Zealand offices are featured, and some wonderful “shots” of the, city have been obtained from the roof garden of Australia House. St Paul's Churchyard is, of course, included, with a close-up of “ No. 1 London,” a fruit shop opposite St Paul’s. Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, Old Drury Lane, the famous Dog and Bird Market, Buckingham Palace, W hitehall, the Horse Guards, the East End, including W 7 hitechapel and Petticoat Lane, Hyde Park, with riders in Rotten Row, all are shown on the screen, also the Tower of London.