“IDAHO”

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 117, 12 February 1944, Page 5

“IDAHO”

Coming well up the straight and set tor big things is the studio of Republic Pictures, youngest and smallest ot the Hollywood concerns. For a long time its sole asset—but a useful one—was Gene Autry. When music began to take n prominent place in horse operas it didn’t roc l u , l £® much to persuade Republic to comb toe sage brush out of its hair and t ,ir p t 0 musicals. Tbe war, with its exciting deeds more incredible than auy that ever happened on the prairie, gave the. studio vet another opening. The result is that Republic lias four films on Wellington screens this week—a musical, a horse opera, a war film, and a "whodunit." The horse opera is "Idaho" (De Luxe), which has that pleasant and popular son.j of the same name, as well us “Whoopee Ti Yo,” "Home on the Range,” ami "Lone Buckeroo”—all of them popular enough to need little introduction to the regular patrons of the Courtenay Place theatre. Roy Rogers, who sings most ot them between bouts with his six-shooter, Is the star, and be had able assistance from Smiley Burnette, who has reecu Uy graduated from his apprenticeship as a featured player with Autry and Rogers, and Is scheduled to come forth soon as a full-fledged star. Other stalwarts of the open spaces are Virginia Grey and the Sons of tlu ; Pioneers. “.Mantrap." the "whodunit" of the quartet. is the other picture on the programme. Henry Stephenson, Lloyd Corrigan and Dorothy Lovett are the players who share acting "honours with the shadow of death and the other impedimenta of the ntsual SUtefiß thriller-