VICTOR MOORE PLAYS FIRST BIG ROLE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 137, 26 June 1937, Page 16

VICTOR MOORE PLAYS FIRST BIG ROLE

Madcap Vietor Moore has turned into a mouse-like little man whose problems of existence made it difficult for him to retain his sense of humour. From a cocky, sway-backed little chap who wcars a clownish hat outthrust in the manner of a tightly corseted, mid-Victorian dowager, he has developed into a greyed- stooped, moustaehed, mild-iuannered individual who walks with a shuffle, yet manages still to toss off unexpected witticisms at unexpected moments, The metamorphosis, be it understood, applies only to fhe Victor Moore of the stage, and it takes place in Paramount's "Make Way For To-mOrrow." Moore, former front-rank comic of the New York stage, has been in Hollywood less than a year, although some years ago he made three or four pictures which created no particularly vital impression. His "forte" always has been broad comedy. The- rneinorable Vice-President ThrottlebottOm in "Of Thee I Sing," and Public Enemy No. 13 in . "Anything Goes" was Moore at his best. Now, as the kindly but sometimes bothersome Pa Cooper in "Make Way For To-niorrow," he finds himself in a role of a type he always wanted to do, without opportunity until now. He essays the role of head of a large and lively family, which, like many other families, is snarl'ed in the inevitable battle -whicb .must arise when diflferent generations come into conflict: . Moore bfings to ,the screen all the genius which has made" him one of the screen 's f avourite comedians, "It's an old . man 's. role ' he plays^ but - he demonstrates- that' there.'s plenty of life in the old boy.-