AKAROA PICTURES

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIX, Issue 6262, 31 December 1936, Page 1

AKAROA PICTURES

.LAST:.ROGERS FILM FAMOUS FLAY ADAPTED FOR SCREEN' New Year's Night Programme Out to the blue grass' country where the girls are all beautiful and the horses fast, the action of "In Old Kentucky," coming New Year's night to the Akaroa Theatre, carries Will Rogers in a whirl of romance, adventure and pounding horse thrills. The story of the great star's last and greatest picture is that of the memorable and beloved Charles T. Dazel play of he same name. But. under the able hands of scenarists, Sam Hellman and Gladys Lehman, it has been brought up-to-date and crammed with additional laughs. "In Old Kentucky" tells the rollicking story of a group of people who love horses and dislike each other, a story that revolves about the shrewd and philosophical Rogers. Charles Sellon is the head of one family who have a perpetual feud with Charles Richman's family. Their rivalry even extends to their horse racing, and to their girls, Dorothy Wilson and Louise Henry, both in love with Russell Hardie. Through plot and counterplot and some of the most hilarious adventures of any Rogers picture, Will' guides his horse to victory in the smashing, crashing climax, and Miss Wilson and Russell Hardie to a happy union. Prominent in the supporting cast is Bill Robinson, that light-footed genius of tap dance. Esther Dale, Alan Dinehart- and Etienne Girardot contribute largely to the fast movement of a grand story. George Marshall directed "In Old Kentucky," which was produced by Edward Butcher, COMIC TEAM HAVE HOLES IN COMEDY Cast as an eccentric radio inventor, with a nitwit wife, Burns and Allen provide many of the comcdy moments in Paramount's latest laugh riot, "The Big Broadcast of 1936," which comes on Saturday, January 2, to the Akaroa Theatre, featuring Jack Oakie, Lyda Roberti, Wendy Barrie, Henry Wadsworth and the Nicholas Brothers. The story traces the amusing' experiences of Oakie and Wadsworth, radio entertainers, who are held captive on a Cuban island by Miss Roberti, cast as a young, beautiful and wealthy but eccentric countess. In the course of many rib tickling ' events, the boys unwittingiy' compete in an international radio contest when they broadcast their thrilling escape and chase by the Countess' henchmen. Bing Crosby, Amos V

Andy, Ethel Merman, Bill Robinson. Ray Noble and his band, Willie, West and MeGinty, take part in specialty numbers. "I Wished on the Moon," "Why Dream," Miss Brown to You," "Dreaming Through a Doorway," and "The Animal in Me" are a few of the song hits in the picture. Norman Taurog directed the fun piece.