THRILLS AND HILARIOUS FUN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1044, 7 August 1930, Page 14

THRILLS AND HILARIOUS FUN

ROXY'S BIG PROGRAMME The most picturesque, romantic and adventurous branch of the army—the cavalry—is the real hero of “Troopers Three,” the Tiffany all-talking production shown at the Roxy Theatre last night. Arthur Guy Empey, World War hero and a member of the 11th United States Cavalry, which performs thrillingly in the production, is the author of the story. Ilex Lease, Dorothy Gulliver, Roscoe Karns and Slim Summerville head the cast. The breezy and attractive Lease plays the role of a egotistical song and dance man of vaudeville, who thinks he is getting 30 days of free bed and board from the Government by joining the Citizens’ Training Camp, and finds that he has been tricked into signing up for three years in the cavalry. His companions are Roscoe Karns and Slim SumervilJe, acrobats. The tricks played upon these three misfit “rookies” by the regular troopers provide the comedy. Drama and romance is supplied by the rivalry between Eddie played by Lease, and Hank, played by Tom London. Hank lias a whole-souled love for pretty Dorothy Clark, played by Dorothy Gulliver, but Eddie is a philanderer and his love is not serious until ho has taken some pretty tough knocks. Tlie same programme also includes another splendid talkie comedy, entitled “The Time, the Place and the Girl.” Is a woman ever justified in sacrificing her own £ood name for the benefit of the man she loves? This is tlie question that is answered in the most rollicking way in the latest and peppiest talking picture ever made, “The Time, the Place and tho Girl,” which stars Betty Compson.