“RUBBER HEELS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 215, 30 November 1927, Page 16

“RUBBER HEELS”

AT TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S Ed. Wynne comes to the Tivoli and Everybody’s Theatres in his first Paramount motion picture comedy, “Rubber Heels.” The inventor of more silly appliances than have ever been registered at the Patents Office enacts a role that’s fraught with comic possibilities. He’s the green graduate of a correspondence school for detectives! And does he detect? Listen! Homer Thrush becomes Tennyson Hawks’s right-hand man, but loses the job when he demands his salary. Then, Princess Arline arrives with- a casket of precious jewels, which she hopes to sell for her impoverished kingdom. Homer intercepts her call to the Hawks Agency, and secures a position as guardian of the jewellery. Needless to say, Hawkes and his force disguise themselves and enter. Suddenly, midst much excitement, the jew’el casket disappears and Homer sets out after it. The Hawks crew have stolen it and start off for Canada, but Homer sticks to the trail he “gets his men" and —well, there are big kicks to be found in each reel, but the last one is perhaps the most sensational of all. In addition to “Rubber Heels," the film of the much discussed fight for the world’s heavyweight championship between Dempsey and Tunney will be screened. The film is of great interest and depicts most clearly the details in the sensational seventh round, when Tunney was floored.