“EARLY TO BED"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 88, 14 April 1938, Page 3

“EARLY TO BED"

HILARIOUS HONEYMOON

From the moment the picture opens, when you learn that Ruggles is a trusted clerk of Matchless Eye Company who has been employed for 26 years, “with a bright future,” until the close of his hilarious honeymoon with Mary Boland at Lake Ookawookaboogee, Paramount’s “Early to Bed” is one long riot of laughter. The latest Boland-Ruggles farce which commences on Saturday of next week at the Regent Theatre, is unusual in many ways. Its gags are entirely new; it has no drunk scenes, it presents the pair as newlyweds rather than as much-married couple. Yet it is Boland-Ruggles comedy of the highest order, surpassing anything the two have done together before. A fence war in which they are pitted against a band of rustlers, who have posed as respectable ranch operators, involves William Boyd and Jimmy Ellison in Paramount’s latest punchfilled “Hopalong Cassidy” picture, “Heart of the West,” coming on the same programme. Boyd and Ellison tie-up with a ranch operated by a young Easterner, in the film. The owner's sister, Lynn Gabriel, proves a romantic attraction for young Ellison. Sidney Blackmer leads a crew of six rustlers operating out of the “Tumbling L” ranch, George Hayes plays an old rancher who uses only a blacksnake whip as a weapon.