AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20173, 27 February 1931, Page 17

AMUSEMENTS.

CIVIC THEATRE. " BALACLAVA," LAST DAY. The British picture, "Balaclava," which is giving such pleasure and satisfaction to patrons at the Civic, finishes to-night. Tomorrow the programme will be a complete change, comprising a Laurel and Hardy comedy and a Mickey Mouse cartoon, in ad' dition to a big Metro-GJoldwyn-Mayer feature, entitled "They Learned About Women." Xheie is no gainsaying the fact that for real laughs no artists on tho stage or screen to-day can approach Stan. Laurel and Olivet Ilardy. T'.:o absurd situations this pair of fools get into, only because they havo to get out again, must bo Been to be appreciated,' and in "They Go Boom" it is claimed they are at their best. Although Mickoy Mouse has many imitators there is only one "Mickey." Walt. Disney, the creator of this clever little screen-actor, possibly never knew he was creating a world celebrity, but such is a fact. To-day Mickey Mouse is lauded to the skies in song and story. He is tha mascot for motor-cars; ho is copied for toys. In fait, Mickey Mouse is the best known "poison" in t.ho world to-day. Mickey Mouse appears on the Civic's noxt programme in "The Chain Gang." In the feature Van and Schenck, tilled as the leading vaudeville artists in America, with Bes3ie Love, appear.