AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 243, 6 October 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

Those two great comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are back again in their latest musical comedy extravaganza. “Swiss .Miss,” which is screening Saturday. at the Regent Theatre.*’ Abso in the east are the new Viennese singing star, Della Lind, Walter Woolf King and tlie inimitable Eric Blore. Stan and .ollie appear as two mouse-trap salesmen, and their Alpine antics will kb.op you laughing for many a moon. .’A’

Music-lovers are offered a feast of melody in this new Laurel and Hardy musical extravaganza. Phil Clmrig, noted London and New York composer, lias written five smash’tunes, “Yo-Mo-De-O-Do-Lny-Ee-O,” ‘ ‘The Cricket Song,” “As Sure As There’s a Sky Above,” “I Can’ Get Over the Alps,” and “Gypsy Song” for the picture. Equnlly melodic arc the choral numbers and music for the dances which are in keeping with the background of the film.

Laurel and Hardy reach a new peak of comedy in an Alpine setting, climbing; do dizzy heights of mirth in “Swiss .Miss.’’ Their new picture lias been givejbha highly entertaining plot and a sumptuous production. Settings are of unusual beauty , aneb seme scenes iiL and about the vil''' where nibifj Of the action takes place rank high in pictorial quality. Singers, dancers and musicians, garbed in the quaint costumes of the region, give a glamorous impression of a Swiss fete. Many customs of the district such as ■yodelling, AI pen-1 id ruing, hell-ringing and Hag-throwing are introduced and afford an interesting and colourful background without obscuring in the leastjd’fio hearty and mirth-provoking antms of the stellar pair.

Their efforts to sell mouse-traps to the choose producers, including demonstrations of the devices* all of which in ingenuity would do credit to Rube Goldberg, are sequences as hilarious as have over come to the screen.. In success or in despair, their reactions never fail to hit the hell of pure and unad u 11era ted co inedy.