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“THE GAY RETREAT” Those two irrepressible funmakers, Ted McNamara and Sammy Cohen, who won fame with their characterisations of the two marines in “What Price Glory,” score again as laughproducers, this time in Fox Films feature war comedy, “The Gay Retreat,” which is now being shown at the Grand Theatre. This delightful entertainment is not only a happy, rollicking take-off on the war but contains in addition thrills in plentiful measure, a double-barrelled romance and a story that is logical and motivated to the smallest details.
Th© story deals with a sleep-walking son of a millionaire who enlists in the ambulance corps and his two selfappointed bodyguards, who enlist with him. The boy leaves his sweetheart Red Cross nurse in his father’s care and goes to France with his guardians in the wrong outfit. They are marked A.W.O.L. and that is the beginning of their troubles. What happens to them when they get overseas and the French girls with whom they fall in love furnishes the materials for one of the best and most hilarious stories ever filmed.
Releasing shortly is a new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer racing drama “In Old Kentucky,” James Murray, a newcomer to the screen, has the principal role with Helene Costello and a large number of Negro players in support.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 282, 18 February 1928, Page 16
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