REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 79, 27 December 1937, Page 10

REGENT THEATRE

, "A DAY AT THE RACES." , Hastings audiences who langhed until their sides ached at the crazy antics of the Marx brothers — Groucho, Harpo and Chico — in "A Night at the Opera," will consider those laughs mere giggles when they see "A Day at the Races," screen at the Eegent to-night. No comedians in the world can "put over" the same clever clowning of the Marxes, who are a veritable whirlwind of irresponsiblo doings, side-splitting stiuationg and convulsing wise-cracks for the best part of two hours in a story which hovers between a race-track and a sanitarium. Absurdity is not always funny, but with the Marxes it is more; it is uproarious clowning. The boys are madder than ever. Groucho is a horse doctor, Chico a racecourse tout and Harpo a jockey. The trio meet — how doesn't matt-er — and the upshot of it is that they deeide to assist a young woman (Maureen O'Sullivan), who runs a sanitarium. She also has an interest in a jockey and a mortgage, the holder of the latter desiring to secure the building for a gaming house. Allan Jones, in love with Maureen, buys a racehorse for £30 and has hopes of winning a big race, and thus being able to land the cash to meet the mortgage. This actually happens, but only after the" most amazing and crazy situations brought about by ^the brothers, with Groucho, as Dr. Hackenbush, in charge of the sanitarium. It would be impossible to describe the riot of fun, which has the audience in uproarious laughter throughout. "A Day at the Races" is the Marx Brothers at their best. The singing of Allan Jones is outstanding, partieularly his rendering of "Blue Yenetian Water s."