CIVIC THEATRE
If there was any doubt about.Bob' Hope's status as the screen's foremost funster, that doubt will be despatched to-night at the Civic Theatre where "The Princess anct the Pirate" screens. The Samuei Goldwyn production stars the inimitable comedian as a boastful but timorous 18th .Century actor who en route to seek his fortunes in Jamaica, is captured by huccaneers and under goes a flock of hilarious experiences 'in trying to rescue his beautiful fellow-passenger, a princess in disguise, from the villains who infest the Spanish Main. It affords Hope his finest opportunities for mirth-making to date, and the dialogue and situati^ns are keyed to take full advantage of his talents. Walter Slezak gives a brilliant performance as the scoundrelly Governor of a French island, and Walter Brennan covers himself with laurels as a double-crossing pirate who befriends Hope for reasons of his own. Victor McLaglen portrays that terrible buccaneer, The Hook, in swashbuckling style, and Hugo Haas and Marc Lawrence are excellent in prominent supporting roles.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 March 1946, Page 2
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