HORRORS AND COMEDY

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22768, 21 July 1939, Page 18

HORRORS AND COMEDY

Strong medicine, especially recommended for vicarious adventurers who have had no experience more dangerous than walking across the Square at midday on Saturday, is “Savage Gold,” the hair-raising jungle film coming to the Plaza next week. This is the authentic record of Commander George M. Dyott’s encounters with savage head-hunters in Ecuador. “Savage Gold” starts with a foreword vouching for its authenticity, explaining that Dyott had not originally intended it for motion picture theatre presentation. Then the leader'and his two companions arrive in the jungles after a long and tortuous journey. They , are welcomed by the Jivaro chief, .but the witch-doctor, an evil villain, thwarts their efforts to find their friend Schweitzer, the German gold prospector who is mysteriously lost.

The photography in this picture is unusually good. John Martin speaks the dialogue with a proper appreciation of its dramatic value. Those who like jungle films—and above all, horror films—will be’fascinated by “Savage Gold.” , Also at the Plaza next week, Charlie Ruggles will head the cast of “His Exciting Night,” with a supporting cast including Maxie Rosenbloom, heavy-weight challenger of Joe Louis; Marion Martin. Broadway beauty; Ona Munson, fresh from New York musical comedies; Stepin Fetchit, Benny Baker, Georgia Caine, Richard Lane, Frances Robinson. Raymond Parker. Regis Toomey, and Stanley Hughes. Ruggles will be seen as an innocent and unsuspecting bridegroom who is lured to the home of Miss Martin, a

Jungle Film for Plaza

voluptuous vaudeville pgrfoirmef. i® . that he may be compromised in fhg, eyes of his bride, Ona; andher mother, Georgia Caine. Ajealouv. Strong-man husband, a . crazy. taxi; driver; a superstitious butler,;; Sfid -S iseries of hilarious situations : k«6p .the - comedy high-paced. With this -mixed, programme of horror and comedy an exciting chapter of “The Lone Ranged will be shown. •' • ■ 1

William Collier, sen., featured' la Paramount’s “Invitation to Happiness," wrote, directed, produced,, and in his own plays during his long career on the New York stage. •. -> j

Douglass Montgomery will leave jfpT, two’ months’ vacation in N£w 'York when he completes his role With' Bob . Hope and Paulette Goddard in “The Cat and the Canary.” - • . ’

After five years’ absence from films,.. Diana Wynyard, of “Cavalcade” ; and “Reunion in Vienna” fame,' ifeto’face the cameras again. She will cb-stdr with Ralph Richardson in “Thp Night : of the Fire,” being produced af Den- :• ham Studios, London. Ji!

A message from the Denham bead* ■; quarters of Alexander Korda- productions states that A. E. W.' Mason, author of “The Four Feathers." .has been so well pleased with the technicolour screen version of hie Story, that he has given permission for special issue of Cinegram to be issued containing a pictorial serial of the. film.

“Man About Town’’ is the final title for the comedy which stars Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour, and' Edward • Arnold. The producer of this feature is Arthur Hornblow, jun„ picture is “The Cat and the -Canary." which has started production, with Bdb Hope, Paulette Goddard, and Gale Sondergaard.