AMUSEMENTS.
TO-NIGHT AND THURSDAY. “FLYING HIGHT.” “Flying High,” at the Princess Theatre to-night, was frankly made “for laughing purposes only.” Its plot was built definitely to arouse grins and gufjfaws. And it was made by the most successful comedy director of the year, Charles Riesner, responsible for such giggle successes as “Reducing,” “Caught Short” and “Politics.” Of the (principals, Bert Lahr has long been conceded the most imitated comedian on the American stage and Charlotte Greenwood —well, no one needs to explain her! Other well-known players who take part in the gay ine'ange of humour and song include Pat O’Brien, Kathryn Crawford, Charles Winninger, Hedda Hopper, Guy Kibbee and Herbert Braggioti. There is a satirical love ballad in “Flying High,” called “The First Time for Me,” which is noteworthy because its filming entailed the cost of eleven oak chairs. The number, by De Sylva, Brown and Henderson, comprises a love episode between Bert liahr and Charlotte Greenwood,, a scene so hectic in acrobatics that chairs are smashed right and left lige so many kindling wool. 11 were broken before the' scene was completed. A good supporting programme.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1932, Page 3
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187AMUSEMENTS. Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1932, Page 3
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