THREE ATTRACTIONS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20477, 1 December 1934, Page 30 (Supplement)

THREE ATTRACTIONS.

Theatre Royal Offers Varied Entertainment. Well-varied entertainment is offered at the Theatre Ro} r al to-day, the three major attractions being “ Strike Me Lucky,” an hilarious Australian comedy, in which Roy Rene (“ Mo ”) makes his film debut; “ Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back,” the Ronald Colman picture, which has been shown to packed “ houses ” at the Plaza during the last two weeks; and—on the stage —Madame Elsa Stralia, the world-fam-ous prima donna, who sings a bracket of songs. “ Strike Me Lucky ”is guaranteed to create the same laughter records as the inimitable Yiddish comedian caused before he broke in on the silver sheet. All those old characteristics—the lisping tongue and stupidlyamusing sayings—are brought back again, and there is just enough sauciness to make the show enjoyable. To see “ Mo ” once more is like welcoming an old friend, for there is no doubt that he and ' his partner were tremendously popular. Plenty of scope is provided for Roy Rene to exploit his particular talents, more scope, in fact, than the stage ever offered. Writing of this comedy, a northern critic said; One laughed to see him as the blundering handyman in the second-hand clothing shop of Lowenstein, as the “ tough ” man in a speakeasy, as the stunting aviator, gold prospector, lover (hard to imagine), and conqueror of a gang of robbers (also hard to imagine). And one sympathised with him when he was deprived of his ill-gotten gains, and when he was turned out on the street because he had overlooked a matter of a few months’ rent. For Rene has a way of getting under the skin, as it were, and making the audience live his life with him. Box plans at the D.I.C.