ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 35, 20 November 1937, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ST. JAMES THEATRE. “Wee Willie Winkie,” featuring Shirley Temple, will be shown to-night and again on Monday night. Life at a frontier army post in India is not too happy for Shirley and her widowed mother June Lang, for her grandfather, C. Anbrey Smith, is a gruff old disciplinarian. The youngster decides that the only way to win the Colonel’s approval is to become a soldier herself, and her friend, Michael Whalen, a young lieutenant, turns her over for training to the burly sergeant Victor McLagden, who dubs her “Wee . Willie Winkie.” Shirley gets into plenty of trouble at the post but wins the gratitude of an imprisoned chieftain, Khoda Khan, when she returns his lost amulet. In a surprise raid on the post, the proud chieftain is freed, and the border is immediately tvith crimson warfare, with McLaglen’s life being.one of those lost. Feeling that both Khoda Khan and her grandfather would prefer peace, Shirley takes a desperate step to end the killing, and sets out at night for the Pathan camp. When her departure is discovered, the Highlanders set out grimly for Khyber Pass, graveyard of many a soldier, determined to rescue her or die in the . attempt. There is an interesting climax.