CRIMSON PLAYGOER

For dutiful students who have been spending most of their time in Widener a dashing visit to the Metropolitan this week is suggested as one way of forgetting the approaching midyears and throwing off the weariness of the fiesh resulting from much reading. In "Wife Savers" Raymond Hatton and Wallace Beery display every brand of slapstick, horseplay, and clownishness capable of being photographed. With a French postwar background, a matrimonial motif and the assistance of Zazu Pitts, Ford Sterling, and Tom Kennedy they reach new heights of hilarity which are diverting, if not side-splitting. In the war scenes we have a burlesque of "What Price Glory," "The Big Parade" and "Wings"; later, after the armistice, Raymond Hatton returns to America leaving his French sweetheart in charge of Wallace Beery. An edict that all young women marry immediately, or something similar, complicates things and Beery appropriates the woman in the case. Hatton come back and intrigue, duels and the hatching of a brood of ducks by Beery keeps the comedy of this fast team from losing impetus. See it if the jaded mind needs a stimulant. It is served on "Blue Plate," the stage attraction, which makes it more appetizing.