Lighter Side Of Army Life

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 37, 24 February 1939, Page 14

Lighter Side Of Army Life

[232 Hours’ Leave." Action Pictures. Directed by John G. Blystone. With James Ellison, Terry Walker. First release, Welington, February 24.) AMBLING again forms the theme of ‘‘233 Hours’ Leave,’’ but this time it takes place in the army and is therefore quite innocent and frightfully jolly and free from vice. The film seeks to show the lighter side of camp life. The period is 1917, the setting America, and the hero a cocksure young sergeant who is an inveterate — and diabolically lucky — gambler. A bet he makes that he will have breakfast with the general of the regiment provides the main situation of the picture. More than that, it provides practically the whole story-what there is of it. The rest of the footage is eked out with a vast amount of hearty, head-punching, tomatothrowing horseplay by the troops, who also sing barrack-room ballads of a kind that Kipling never wrote. The names of these ditties are "Goodnight, My Lucky Day," "Now You’re Talking my Language," "We Hapnen -to be in the Army" and "Tt Must be Love." The last one is good. Army Girl HE actor who goes round bet- ting the shirt off everybody’s back is Jimmy Ellison, best known as Hopalong Cassidy’s original protege. He is more at home on the prairie than In the army. Since there is a general in the story, there must also be a general’s daughter. Her contribution to the simple scheme of things is to run 2 free taxi-service for the troops and fall in love with the hero; which only goes to show that generals’ daughters in America are more democratic than elsewhere. The name of the girl, if you’re interested, is Terry Walker.