TILLY THE TOILER
(Columbia)
[IELY the Toiler is a wellknown comic strip in America -though we doubt if this in itself is sufficient justification
for allowing Tilly loose upon the screen. Still, if you like your comedy crazy without being particularly intelligible. then we advise you to attend all the Tilly films. Tilly herself is delightfully dumb without being particularly beautiful, which is explained by the fact that she (Continued on next page)
(Continued from previous page) began by being a caricature anyway. If you’re in a comic strip I suppose you're so used to having conversation bursting out of you in balloons that you’re not much good at talking in the ordinary manner, Tilly (Kay Harris) has a tendency to say her lines rather than live them, and she covers up all the joins by smiling, a smile that exploits the possibilities of her .indiarubber mouth and engulfs the rest of her face. Office boy Mac (William Tracy--another brand-new discovery) has a Cro-Magnon look about him. His brain, judging by his actions, is certainly under-developed, or maybe it’s just that he’s in love with Tilly. The story has its moments. There’s the time Tilly takes her shorthand to a former teacher to decipher and the teacher suggests taking it to an Egyptologist. "But," says Tilly, "neither the boss nor I know Egyptian." And if you do have to sit through a fair amount of watching people being thrown out of windows and basted with custard-pie equivalents, the dénouement of the film is at any rate worth waiting for. On a double bill programme "Tilly the Toiler" would be worth at least 6d, of your 1/6,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 16
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276TILLY THE TOILER New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 16
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