Beery and Hatton Remain on Top

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 340, 28 April 1928, Page 25

Beery and Hatton Remain on Top

First in the Field DUOS DRAWING POWER Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton as a team, have beeomr almost a fixture in the motion picture tcorld. Their work together has given impetus to the formation of a dozen other teams of players, hut Beery and Hatton, first in the field , have remained at the top of the list in drawing power.

They really began their teaming before they officially joined hands, for one remembers them as Beauseant and his scheming partner in the film verson of Bulwer-Lyt ton’s “The Lady of Lyons,” a pair of titled rascals who betrayed poor Pauline Deschappelles into a humiliating position. But their beginnings as a team

may be said to have begun historically and their teaming is part of the history of motion pictures—with “B e h i n d the Front,” in which their '-'owning amazed the world and set a fashion of travestying war that quite overran the screens for a time.

They took their “boob doughboys'* into the navy and were equally futile as gobs, in “We’re in the Navy Now,” and then, Americans in France, “Now Were in the Air,” they had adventures in the air. They were fire laddies alter that, and now they reappear (says a Hollywood correspondent) in a somewhat more serious picture, “Partners in Crime.” Beery as a detective and Hatton as a pocketContented Partnership Its story has more body than the flighty comedies in which the pair have been appearing, but Beery and Hatton are never the less comic for that reason. From time to time there ha»> been stories of disagreement between j them as to their individual value in 1 the duo, and threats of disruption of j the teamehip, but attempts at single performances have not been successful. The twain seem to have settled down into a contented partnership in j laughter making.