AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERY BOD YS’ PICTURES.

“QUEEN HIGH.”

TO-NIGHT AND SATURDAY.

Paramount 'has taken just those ingredients and a whole bagful more, in filfiiicatmg the explosion of laughs that is “Queen High” at the Princess Theatre to-night and Saturday. “Queen High” was originally a f Schwab and Mandel musical comedy * smash-hit in New York. In its audible celluloid form, it retains all the sure-for-lnughs craftsmanship of' the producers (who are billed as the makers and stagers of the film), and all the original wit of the basic piece, “A Pair of Sixes,” the farce comedy by Eward H. Peples, which started it ail. Ruggles and Morgan are the partners in a garter-producing business, wffio know how to support ladies’ garments with their wares, but "'ho do not know how to support each other’s opinions with any degree of pacifism. After many fights, their lawyer suggests that they each draw a hand of poker, to determine who will he the other’s butler. Buggies loses, aud thereafter. ,%s tho man-servant in the home of Morgan. Laugh follows laugh as the humourous situations pile up in swift 'tempo. But the luckless Morgan learns • of a way to en ( ] all of Morgan’s lordly ordering about He makes up to his “master’s wife.” That fetches the indignant Morgan.