AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS’ PICTURES.

“COHENS & KELLYS IN AFRICA.’ 1

GEORGE SIDNEY AND CHARLIE MURRAY.

Easily the outstanding screen achievement of those celebrated funsters, Charlie Murray and George Sidney, “The Cohens and Kellys in Africa,' opens at the Princess Theatre on Saturday night. The comedy introduces Cohen and Kelly as piano manufacturers whoso business is at the point ol ruin because of a shortage real ivory' for their keys. Meeting a pseudoe>plqi’er who paints a glowing picture of veritable mountains of ivory in

Africa, Cohen and Kelly decide to finance an exhibition to the “Dark Continent’’ with til© explorer as leader. The comedians become involved in almost every conceivable tangle on their expedition, and the screen play follows their escapades from the time they leave the boat at Mombasa, over the veldt and through jungles until, their departure from a sheik’s harem for the United States. The jungle atmosphere and harem scenes have been reproduced with .surprising fidelity. Murray, and Sidney are seen at their best., Having worked together in motion pictures for several years, they form a perfect comedy duo. natural in every movement, and their antics never fail to produce a maximum number of laughs.