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Show Hope Hilarious In Current Mario Show "Monster Beaucaire," comedy version of Booth Tarkington's famous novel starring Bob Hope and Joan Caulfield, is now playing play-ing at the Mario. A tongue-in-cheek romance of 18th century court life, it runs the gamut of comedy from a minimum of funny fun-ny to a maximum of hilarious. The film is a fine vehicle for the inimitable Hope brand of tomfoolery, taking him out of the 20th century, but leaving the story wide open for Bob's present-day, rapier-like wit. Hope plays the part of Beaucaire, Beau-caire, who is the royal barber in the palace of Louis XV. With a razor in his hand Bob is more than the king can stand, and, becoming particularly annoyed, Louis orders Hope beheaded. Disguised as France's foremost swordsman and lady killer, Monsieur Mon-sieur Hope flees to Spain where he is received at court as the nobleman he is impersonating. All eventually ends well, but only after the audience has exhausted ex-hausted itself with, laughter. An excellent supporting cast includes Patric Knowles, Mar-jorie Mar-jorie Reynolds, Joseph Schild-kraut, Schild-kraut, Reginald Owen, and Hillary Hil-lary Brooke. |