REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 78, 2 April 1938, Page 11

REGENT THEATRE

“Feather Your Nest.” George Formby’s latest musical mirthquake, “Feather Your Nest,” commences to-day at the Regent Theatre. The fun oscillates between George's work as a gramophone recordist and his mishaps in his “very jerry - built nest,” with hectic interludes at Turkish baths, the local “pub,” and on a runaway motorbike, thrown in, as it were, for good comedy measure. Everyone will fall for the Willie Piper of this picture, with his good nature, his simple desire to get married, and his succession of blundering mistakes that apparently make his objective more and more out of the question. The blunders start good and early, but the main one occurs when Willie, the mirth recordist in a large gramophone factory, who cannot help dropping things when the whistle goes, drops the valuable master-record of a famous crooner. To make matters worse, he and Mary have already paid instalments on their home and furniture. So to prevent Willie getting the sack, they both steal into the factory late at night and make a record, with Willie substituting for the crooner and providing his own banjo accompaniment. The crooner, of course, disowns the record—Willie is duly sacked—and the record instantly becomes the best-seller for the year, with the result that Willie is redeemed from a police cell, and is offered a substantial recording contract by his firm. Apart from his mishap at the factory’, Willie is shown disastrously fooling around with the beer-connect-ing pipes in the cellar of the pub, owned by his prospective mother-in-law: being, as the victim of a mistaken identity, subjected to a ferocious workout in the Turkish batljs; unconsciously insulting his superior in a mike test: and with his girl on the nillion, having a number of hairbreadth escapes as he careers along on a borrowed motor-cycle. Also on the programme is “Armoured Car,” starring Robert Wilcox, Juditn Barrett and Cesare Romern.