TUDOR THEATER

Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3761, 23 September 1940, Page 5

TUDOR THEATER

"A CHUMP AT OXFORD" LAUREL AND HARDY IN NEW COMEDY "A Chump at Oxford," which will be screened at the Tudor Theatre tomorrow and Wednesday, is rated as the funniest and most hilarious picture yet to co-star Laurel and Hardy ,the screen's leading pair of comedians. With many rollicking, good oldfashioned complications in the plot, "A Chump at Oxford" tells the story of two street cleaners who inadvertently capture a bank robber. When the bank president offers them a reward, they ask instead that they be sent to Oxford for an education, which during their misspent lives they happened to miss. From there on, the story is a series of humorous incidents. The pair become wonderful targets for the rest of the men at college, and what happens to the austere dean when he gets mixed up in the frolic provides one of the most laughprovoking episodes in the story. Stan Laurel is an Englishman by birth. A native of Ulverston, in Lancashire, Laurel spent the first twenty years of his life in various parts of the British Isles, at school and in the theatre. A careful observer and keen student of the manners and idiosyncrasies of his fellowmen, he was of invaluable aid in supplying local colour during filming of "A Chump at Oxford." Among the players listed in the supporting cast are Forrester Harvey, Wilfred Lucas, Forbes Murray, Frank Baker and Eddie Borden. Showing on the same programme will be "The Rebel Son," starring? Harry Baur and Roger Liversey. "The Amazing Mr Williams" and "Zanzibar" will be screened finally this evening.