BRIGHT COMEDY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20452, 2 November 1934, Page 3

BRIGHT COMEDY.

Will Hay in “Those Were the Days.” i In Will Hay, famous English stagand radio artist, British International i Pictures have found a comedian with a hitherto unsuspected flair for screen work. He will be seen in “ Those Were the Days,” which comes to Christchurch shortly. In Sir Arthur Pinero’s play. “The Magistrate” (of which this is a clever adaptation), 8.1. P. have found him the perfect vehicle for his introduction to cinema audiences. In the words of a leading film journal, he “ takes to the screen like a duck to water, revealing all those facets of his personality which have already established him as a great favourite in other spheres.” As Mr Posket. a judicial pedagogue of the late ’nineties, now beaming benevolently over his spec tacles at the petty offender, now fixing the more serious malefactor with a j sternly reproving eye. Will Hay has full scope for the highly individual, serio-comic style of humour he has already made his own on the London stage. The dignity of his deportment in the most absurd situations is irresistibly funny, and his completely natural manner contrasts comically with the farcical happenings—and farcical characters—in the background.