AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19998, 15 November 1927, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

THE DUCHESS THEATRE (Aramoho) Plausible improbabilities. They constitute good farce, in the opinion of Melville Brown, brilliant young film derector, whose latest Universal production, “Taxi! Taxi!” is screening at the Duchess Theatre to-night. ‘ ‘ Farce is a particular type of comedy,” Brown declared, “and it demands the co-opera-tion of every audience that sees it. In other words, it must be regarded as a ‘suspension of disbelief’ on the part of the audience. There can be no serious moment in farce, or the entire structure is ruined. This is where it differs from straight comedy, for the latter type can be mingled with pathos and even tragedy. Farce must be continuously hilarious and light. Anything can happen providing it is given a cloak of plausibility. This, of course, demands that whoever sees it must view it as it is meant. An analytical observer, or one who demands that the characters in the story act in a logical manner, gives himself and whoever attends the theatre with him a very unhappy evening. ” “Taxi! Taxi!” is farce comedy of the highest type, with that popular farceur, Edward Everett Horton in. the featured role. Marian Nixon plays the feminine lead, and Buzr Mclntosh, Edward Martindel, Lucien Littlefield, William V. Mong and others are in the supporting cast. An excellent supporting programme will be screened, including a two reel comedy and International News reel.