Frolics in the Land of the Pharoahs

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)

Frolics in the Land of the Pharoahs

“MUMMY’S EOYS” DIVERTING WHEELER—WOOLSEY VEHICLE (State: Screening To-day.) Murder, mystery and merriment among the ancient tombs of Egypt are in store for Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey’s legion of fans when the popular team of comics appears in ‘‘Mummy’s Boys.” , I The crazy comic’s nineteenth fea- . turc, together, this RKO Radio film re- . calls the famous “curse of King Tut” so widely headlined in connection with t ' strange deaths that struck many memj bers of the expedition that opened his tomb. j A lusty satire on the “terror type” - of mystery chiller, it takes the boys L from ditch digging in New York to i shovelling in the Valley of Kings, l graveyard of Egypt’s Pharoahs, in the j face of a similar curse. The fact that i a fiend is employing the supernatural : threat of death as a blind for his dirty i work spices the hilarity with thrills and • leads to a high tension climax when the ; boys and their new leading lady, BarI bara Pepper, are trapped iu a spooky • underground crypt with the murderer. Miss Pepper, who romances opposite i Wheeler, is a lively young blonde • beauty who got her start by being . “glorified” by the late Florenz Ziefeld. > Ln the Wheeler and Woolsey tradition, ten attractive young ladies romance . with Whoolsey. J With Moroni Olsen, Frank M. Thomas Willie Best Mitchell Lewis and ' Francis McDonald, topping the cast ; “Mummy’s Boys” was directed by ! Fred Gutol. Leo Marcus, who supervis- ' ed “The Nit Wits’” and “Love On a - Bet” as well as the above mentioned comedies, produced.