Movies:

"Honeymoon Hotel"

Two guys on a honeymoon!! What fun!

This story of two guys, supposedly on a honeymoon together, is delightfully put on the screen. Don't miss it, whatever you do. In fact, see it with your best buddy.

Robert Goulet, long on Broadway in Camelot, and Robert Morse, a fine actor on Broadway, and funny-make a lovely couple. It starts out with Robert Morse about to be married to a she-witch. When he takes a lastminute glance at a classy chassis, she stands him up. Cheers from the audience! The clean-cut All-American kid is better off without her! Now he's stuck with the hotel reservations, so he takes his roommate, Robert Goulet, off with him to use them. What he doesn't know is, the reservations are at a hotel for honeymoon couples only. Now the fun gets funnier, as various and sundry people mistake them for a couple on their honeymoon.

At the plane, a fellow hands a corsage to each couple boarding. He presents one to handsome Goulet, who hands it to Morse by his side. The fellow presenting the flowers is dumbstruck. The audience goes numb with roars. The two play it-if you'll pardon the expression-"straight."

It's no real-life hotel, the honeymooners there are consistently loveydovey, which is a jolting inaccuracy that doesn't come off funny, but it's in the background, and part of the game of "pretend.”

When the two boys arrive at luxurious Honeymoon Hotel, Robert Goulet goes alone to the old aunty of a room clerk, who beams, "And where is your little companion?"

Goulet blinks his baby-blue eyes. "Taking the bags up."

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Aunty is stunned. "You'd let your little companion do that?"

"My little companion is stronger than I am."

So starts the room clerk watching these unusual honeymooners.

Robert Goulet, constantly dressing and undressing in the picture-how nice!-slips into the shower out of sight. Elsa Lanchester, the maid, comes in to hang their clothes up. She opens one after another suitcase-all men's clothes. Elsa, the marvelous trouper, does a mystified, confused, lecherous take, gazing at the long closet, one half crammed with suits, the other half empty, except for one filmy nightgown. Elsa runs out. The bass voice in the shower booms, "Thank you." She excitedly buzzes the news to another old crone at the switchboard, and they set about watching for developments with this couple. "She" must be going to spend the entire honeymoon, in bed!

The sexiest line in the picture-any way you take it-is, "We were roommates for six years, before coming

here."

Keenan Wynn is excellent as harassed, hen-pecked businessman interested in a little fun with his featherbrained sexpot secretary, Glynis Johns. Miss Johns is delightful, manuevering to seduce anyone who comes within range of her radar. She has one scene that is the funniest this reviewer has seen in any motion picture in his life. It depends on surprise, so won't spoil it for you, but that one scene is worth going to see the picture for!

So much can be read into this picture by someone gay; it's delightful and sexy. The two Roberts never actually touch each other, but they play most of the scenes in the picture together.

Lensed superbly in color at MGM, this sparkling, action-packed comedy should go places and be talked about, both in gay and straight circles.

Chuck Taylor