FRED THOMPSON
THE DOWN AND OUT Who, of all the strutters of the human stage. i 3 so funny, and at the same time pathetic, as the down-and-out actor? Fred Thompson, and Guy Boton, the playwrights, immortalised the type in their Broadway success, “Tiptoes” with Dorothy Gish, Will Rogers, and Nelson Keys. This film version promises to be even funnier than the play, because the scene has been laid in London, where the picture was produced, and the down-and-out vaudevillians’ perplexities are more comic because the whole Atlantic cean bars their counting the ties me, as they hove been wont to do th T tf r Bhow went “broke” on the oaa ' It s a Paramont picture.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 124, 16 August 1927, Page 15
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117FRED THOMPSON Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 124, 16 August 1927, Page 15
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