HILARIOUS COMEDY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20342, 27 June 1934, Page 3

HILARIOUS COMEDY.

George Wallace in “ Ticket in Tatt’s.” “Sons of the Desert” (Laurel and Hardy) and supporting programme will be shown finally on Friday night at the Regent Theatre. George Wallace, expert creator of mirth, scores a great success in “ A Ticket in Tatt’s ” which will open at the Regent Theatre on Saturday. The picture finds the übiquitous George ideally cast for his inimitable talents and throughout the screening he is the centre of mirth and merriment, burlesque and jollity. It is, as the title suggests, essentially a film of the turf. The story is a simple one of the gamble of a beautiful daughter of a noted racehorse owner, who, in a rash moment, makes a bet to marry a man she does not want if his horse wine, while he promises never to propose to her again—he has already gone through that nerve-racking process twenty-two times—should the young lady’s horse reach the post first in the great Melbourne Cup race. Wallace takes the part of a somewhat adventurous rouseabout at the stables, where he secures a position after having been dismissed from his post of grocer’s delivery man. He is already on friendly terms with Hotspur, the favourite of the racing stables. A “ dope ” gang is encountered, and to defeat the scheming of this criminal organisation he disguises himself as a waiter at a cabaret, and in the scenes that follow there is a constant storm of laughter and a further impressive demonstration of the great versatility of the principal, who becomes bar-tender, band conductor and eccentric dancer, in which he gives an excellent display. Then comes the climax on the great Cup day at Flemington, and the screening of the race is splendidly carried out and directed. It is a really delightful picture, with George Wallace at his best, and the variety numbers in the cabaret scene are outstanding. A first-class supporting programme will be headed by the travelogue, “ Dear Old London.” one of the mostcomprehensive of all Home films. The majesty and grandeur, the contrast of night and day, of rich and poor, of places with histories going back hundreds of years and the business of the workadav world in the greatest city in the world—London—are superblv portrayed. % Box plans at the D.I.C.