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“BATTLING BUTLER” At last a comedy star has made a “different” picture. It is “Battling Butler,” the new* Buster Keaton mirth - provoker, now being shown at the Grand Theatre. The story of “Batling Butler.” a successful musical comedy before it was adapted to the screen. Is a scream from start to finish. Kea :on, wearing his traditional frozen face, portrays the part of a rich, pampered youth who goes to the country for an outing—and finds adventure. He falls In love, masquerades as a famous boxer to win the lady of his choice, and suddenly discovers himself hailed as a hero—the champion middleweight pugilist. To confess the deception imperils his status as a bridegroom; to go through with it endangers his peace of body. How he “saves his face” and retain# his wife’s love, is too novel a denouement to reveal to those who have not seen the picture. Buster has surrounded himself with an unusually capable cast. SaPy O’Neill Walter James, Tom Wilson, Francis* McDonald and Mary O’Brien give excellent performances. “Batling Butler” was made under the Joseph Schenck banner for MetroGold wyn-Mayer.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 77, 22 June 1927, Page 15
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185GRAND Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 77, 22 June 1927, Page 15
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