SAMMY COHEN IN "HOMESICK," AT MAJESTIC.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 68, 22 April 1929, Page 2

SAMMY COHEN IN "HOMESICK," AT MAJESTIC.

Tt has been said of Sammv Cohen that he has the most buighable face in filmdom and from the amount ut hilarity which eddied in waves out of the ventilators of the Majestic Theatre auditorium on Saturday night, the individual wlio remarked thus was speaking naught hut tlie trutli. C'ohen's latest comedy hit for Fox, "llomesick," topped tlie bill at the popular house of entertainment on Saturday and the popular Jewish eomedian in this feature certainly gives his aiulience more food for laugliter than tlie average man would iniagine was possihle in a single perl'orniance. I'he story itsclf is humorous enough, hut Cohen adds to that humour as only a great eomedian eould. The fun starts wlien a waitress in (,'alifornia inserts a matrimonial advertisement in a New Yorlc paper. Marjorie Beehe wns the waitress and Samniy Cohen and Harrv Swect the two chaps wlio mad it. There .vas a cnteh in the advertisement, for the girl who wanted a liusband with enough lucro to purchase a chicken raneh. Neither Sammy nor llarry had other than a tliin dime, requirod him to be iirovided, but Fate, in the shape of a poster, advertising a transeoiitinental bicycle race, xvitli 25,000 dollars to the winner, gave the boy.s an idea. They entered the race. AUliough the rules did not eall for it, nevertheless it turned out to be a combinaticm of I'iding and fighting. for every hundred miles Sammy and Tlarry lenewed tlieir old feud. Ibe picture is a complete and huigliable suceess. Seoond on the list is anotlier verv line British lny-tory ]iicture. It ! tells of a plot to stoal valual.le plans for a new tvpe ( f aricraft, and liow the voung inventor marries a girl whom he incets in Paris. He eventually beeomes convinced tliat she is a spv hu' a foreign oi'ganisation, but wlien she is oongratulated by the bead of the British Seoret Serviee he realises that she has pulled off one f tho biggesfc eoups ever know v The storv takes tbe audienee to Paris — gav liotels and cabarexs, and to Afontmartre. wliore secref meetings are lield by tlie enemv organisation. A fine cast of Englisli artists has been assembled for the production, which co-stars Joan Lockton and Brian Alicrne. "With excellent supports, a really fine programme is made up.