JACK’S THE BOY
JACK HULBERT BETTERS HIS "SUSIE" SUCCESS. LATEST COMEDY EFFOiRT. jBritish film studios would seern to •be the Hulbert's new happy hunting ground, for their new film, "Jack's ithe Boy," which opens on Monday- at the Majestic Theatre, goes on .better thatoi ".Sunshine Susie/' and shows that when Jack Hulbert gets into his stride he takes the British film public with him. The mlakers have made a, film that is thoroughly English — .the jokes.. about the policeman, haggis, sil'k bats and that most English of institutions, Madaime Tussaud's. The story is made up of familiar elements — Jstolen pearl necklaces, girls who are taken in by crooks, and sons who tmake good. The events of the story lare traffic hlocks, smash-and-grah raids, and family misunderstandings. Jack Hulbert plays the part; of a son whose father at Scotland Yard
tells him such a ne'er-do-well could not "stick being a policeman." But he enlists in the force and is instrumental in capturing a glang whose dayli'ght jewel robbery hJas baffled the Yard. [Cicely Courtneidge finds ample in this role for a sketch of a particularly English typo.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 704, 2 December 1933, Page 2
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186JACK’S THE BOY Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 704, 2 December 1933, Page 2
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