AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20124, 18 April 1928, Page 11

AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

MUNICIPAL PICTURES Wallace Beery and Raymond Hat ton have achieved the impossible. They have made four comedies in succession and each one is funnier than its predecessor. In the latest nonsense opera of this inimitable pair, “Now We’re In the Air,” which will be screened again at the Opera House to-night, Beery and Hatton exceed anything they have ever done before for Paramount. They are shown as a couple of boob avaitors, who become such by wandering into a propeller testing room where six propeller? are roaing at once and having their Scotch Highlands costumes blown off thorn. !9onw one tosses them a pair of flying suits and they aro off. Mistaken identity dominates the theme. It does not end with th 0 comedians being mistaken for fliers, but Louise Brooks, the ciharm- | ing and beautiful leading woman, figures in the mistakes. She plays twin sisters, one German and one French. Wally loves the German girl, and Ray the French; their problem of telling them apart is a tough one, and leads to no end of amazing situations. Beery and Hatton arc first heroes of the French. Naturally such good “breaks” don’t last, and they find themselves before a firing squad and between the devil and the deep sea. Gag after gag. som o tried and true but nearly all new, escort this funny pair through their adventures. The story has a refreshing resemblance to an actual plot something that is not often found in comedies. The work of the cast is consistently capable. Malcolm Waite is the enemy spy who docs the villainous work; Russell Simpson is t.he Scotch Lord who hires the team as servants, and others are Emile Chautard and Duke Martin. Frank Strayer directed.