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FRIDAY AND SATURDAY A BRITISH PICTURE The turf, with all its fun, trickery, colour, and multitudes of human fcypes, is the theme of the clever farce comedy, "The Sport of Kings," which opens on Friday. Here you have the racecourse on its human and comedy side. Briefiy, "The Sport of Kings" is the tale of a sanctimonious hater of betting, who falls into sin owing to the wiles of a couple of society punters who excite his pronounced cupidity. Leslie Henson is the puritan in question, who first lectures the household on the wickedness of the turf (without being in the least aware that they all "have a bit on" on the sly) , and then drops headlong into the wickedness himself. To watch his decline and fall — his extraordinarily clever change from the smug preacher against betting to the wild bettor and "bookie" — is to be present at a feast of first-class comedy. "The Sport of Kings" is British through and through, humour, setting and characters. Its racecourse scenes, with their crowds, wellknown racing figures, including the famous tipster, Prince Monolulu, are vividly life-like.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 127, 21 January 1932, Page 6
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185MAJESTIC Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 127, 21 January 1932, Page 6
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