'CRADLE SNATCHERS’

Evening Star, Issue 19804, 1 March 1928, Page 1

'CRADLE SNATCHERS ’

HILARIOUS COMEDY. A hilarious farce of weary wives ot wandering husbands, ‘ Cradle Snatchers ’ will have its initial screening at the Octagon Theatre to-morrow night. This delightful comedy-drama, produced bv Fox Films from iho stage hit which played on Broadway for two years, is a gloom-chaser without' peer. It tells the story of three wives who, to teach their philandering husbands a lesson, hire three college boys to play the parts of lovers. Dorothy Phillips plays the part of the wife who concocts the scheme with her niece's sweetheart. Ho gets his two friends to join him in earning a thousand dollars each. Louise Fazenda, as one of the wives, insists that she may as well get some fun out of the business and chooses the most ardent of the college boys as her swain. Ethel Wales, in the part of tho timid wife, joins reluctantly in the scheme and takes a blonde viking who is even more timid than she. till ho gets started. While the wives and their hired sheiks are at the country home of one of them, the husbands show up. The fun, fast and furious till now, reaches a crescendo of humor seldom equalled. F. Farrell Macdonald is one of tho husbands, and this popular actor probably gives tlie best performance of his career in this picture. Sammy Cohen, who created a sensation as the funloving marine in ‘ What Price Glory,’ brings his share of laughs when he fools his college chums disguised as a girl. But every member of the cast is admirably suited for his part, with the result that ‘ Cradle Snatchers ’ is one of the few pictures one would care to see a second ime.