OPERA HOUSE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 289, 7 December 1939, Page 9

OPERA HOUSE

“ASK A POLICEMAN” AND “BOY FRIEND” There will be no pictures at the Opera House to-night. Will Hay is as dumb and as delight|ful as ever in his latest comedy, "Ask .;a Policeman,” which is to-morrow's : | feature at the Opera House. He plays 11 the part of a village policeman in a I village that has about eight people, ■'.including a police force of three headed by Sergeant Will Hay. The ■ sergeant is boastful of the fact that there has not been a crime of any sort in the village for 10 years live weeks, four days, and incidentally remarks that he took over the job just 10 years five weeks and four days ago. The chief constable ponders over this, and decides that in such a virtuous village . no police force is necessary, so m I order to keep its job the force feverishly rushes round looking for a spot of crime. In “Boy Friend,” Jane Withers falls in love tor the first time with George Herbert, who plays the part of a student at one ol America's military preparatory schools. The story is not confined to this theme, however. It is a tale of the American police training schools, with a strong “Crime Does biot i*ay” message, zx group of young men, one of them Janes brother (Richard Bond), are in training to become policemen. One ol them appears to go astray by joining a gang of wholesale burglars, buc fortunately he never quite manages to convince the audience that he is not acting as an “under cover” man for the police. His former friends a.tnot as bright as the audience, bowi ever, and their hatred is increased when one of their number is shot down by the gang. Jane and her new boy (friend make up for things, however, [by leading the entire force to wnere 'the gang is carrying out a raid. A terjrifle motor-car cnase with revolver acIcompaniment follows.