REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1941, Page 8

REGENT THEATRE

“CAUGHT IN THE DRAFT.” Topical in its appeal because of its blend of humour with military life, “Caught in the Draft” will be shown tonight. Rollicking Bob Hope is the hero, and Dorothy Lamour does not seem as out of place as one might think as a civilised heroine. Bob takes the part of Don Bolton, hero of a hundred film romances, but a man who fears the sound of gunfire more than he fears anything on earth. To quote his own. words he is “allergic to bullets,” so it is rather hard on him when he falls in love with the daughter of a particularly fire-eating colonel. Don has trouble with tanks, trouble with uniforms, and trouble with po-tatoes-trouble in fact dogs his every footstep. His strenuous dislike of anything to do with the army doesn’t help him in his efforts to woo the colonel’s daughter, arid it is only when an elaborate dodge fails that he finally becomes a full-blown private. The colonel declares that nothing less than a corporal will do for his daughter, and Bob sets out to reach these dizzy heights. Trouble waits for him everywhere, and the nearest he gets to promotion is peeling potatoes and cleaning fish on fatigue. The picture is full of fun and hilarious situations.