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Show "GHOST BREAKERS" PACKS CHILLS AND CHUCKLES Spooks to the left of them, spooks to the right of them, Paul-ette Paul-ette Goddard and Bob Hope, go after ghosts with gags in one of the merriest mystery stories of the season at the Rivoli theatre Friday Fri-day and Saturday. It's Para-mount's Para-mount's "The Ghost Breakers." It will break you up completely. Cleverly directed by George Marshall from a well-planned screen-play, by Walter DeLeon, it gives Bob Hope ample opportunity opportun-ity to ad lib at the expense of the wierdest assortment of uncanny goings-on ever assembled. Dressed Dress-ed in the latest fashions that display dis-play her gorgeous figure to perfection, per-fection, Paulette Goddard is an eyeful. Action is the keynote of "The Ghost Breakers." From the very first moment when Paulette finds that she has inherited a haunted castle on an island off Cuba, until she finds out why it was haunted, at the end of the picture, not a moment is wasted. It is only natural na-tural that two people united in solving such a thrilling riddle should gradually drift into romance, ro-mance, although they are thrown together accidentally in the be ginning. Paul Lukas plays the villain that is, one of the villains and a very handsome one, indeed. Richard Rich-ard Carlson makes a dashing character char-acter come alive, and Willie Best, as Bob Hope's negro man-servant, is a great foil. Other members of the cast who add to the chills and chuckles include Anthony Quiun., Pedro de Cordoba, Tom Dugan, Virginia Brissac, Noble Johnson, Paul Fix and many others. Bob Hope plays the part of a gossipy radio commentator who gets in wrong with a racketeer. While endeavoring to fix things up with Mm before going on a vacation, he runs into a gun battle. bat-tle. Thinking he killed a man, he hides in Paulette's trunk and doesn't escape until he is delivered deliver-ed to her stateroom on the Cuban boat. Alter scaring her half to death when she opens her trunk, he tells her he is a ghost breaker a man who rids haunted houses of ghosts. It is only necssary to add that as a ghost breaker Bob Hope approaches ap-proaches his profession with a new slant. He convulses the haunts and ghosts with laughter which renders them useless. The au- , dience also shared in the merriment. merri-ment. It's the best picture Miss Goddard and Hope have made. |
