PRINCESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 224, 10 December 1927, Page 18 (Supplement)

PRINCESS

“WHITE PANTS WILLIE” “White Pants Willie” deals with the plights of a young gent who likes to wear white pants in spite of the small town he lives in. He works in a garage and has an invention up his sleeve—a gadget called a magnetic bumper that prevents tyre trouble by sniping tacks out of the road. Willie gets a chance to migrate to Cold Springs, a fashionable resort where he knows the girl and her father have hied. As soon as Willie arrives he is mistaken for a polo champion. Of course he has to make good, win the game, win the girl, etc. Besides giving us Johnny in his funniest picture, C. C. Burr has surrounded the comedian with an exceptional cast of players who chase Johnny down the laughter stretch. There is Leila Hyams, a little beauty who can act, playing the leading feminine role. There is another charmer, Ruth Dwyer, who you have seen before in Johnny’s pictures, and there is Henry Barrows, Walter Long, Margaret Seddon, George Kuwa—and there is the most amazing goose named Bozo who seems to have lots of fun while making us laugh: The setting are decidedly lavish and pictorial, beautifully photographed. Charles Hines directed with his usual skill, not overlooking a bet when there was a chance to raise the ante and cashing in.