PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 6

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

"Too Hot to Handle."

With a cast headed by Myrna Loy and Clark Gable, "Too Hot to Handle" continues its Wellington season at the Paramount Theatre tomorrow. The first portion of the bill, which is almost entirely in technicolour, includes such brilliant entertainment as "Carnival Days," a musical comedy featuring Henry Armetta and Felix Knight, a new cartoon entitled "Speaking of the Weather," which burlesques most of the favourite film stars, an exclusive Paramount overseas news, . a technicolour traveltalk by James Fitzpatrick, "Sydney— Pride of Australia," which features a song dedicated to Bondi, and a Pete Smith specialty, "Follow the Arrow." The principal attraction, "Too Hot to Handle," will • find approval with all. Clarke Gable, and Myrna Loy are daredevils under fire, provide thrills, romance, and action-packed drama in a story of the daring feats of newsreel cameramen. Action gets off to a flying start in Shanghai. War, aviation thrills, the quest of a lost aviator amid savage tribes in South American wilds, the crack up of Miss Loy's plane, are among the rapid-fire details of the new picture. The story"' shows Gable and his rivals ferreting out "scoops" in the Orient, ranging from bombings to the "Chinese Big Apple." Miss Loy starts on a mercy flight. Gable, in quest of a "scoop," manages to involve her in a plane wreck. There is a hoax accusation and love dawns amid a melee of excitement. Lawrence Stallings, author of "What Price Glory" ,and "The Big Parade," and John Lee Mahin did a clever ]Ob of scripting from the original story by Len Hammond, Walter Pidgeon plays Bill Dennis, Gable's -principal rival; Walter Connolly is Gabby Mc•Arthur, Gable's boss; Leo Carrillo has the comedy role of Joselito. Also in the cast are Johnny Hines, Virginia Weidler, Betty Ross Clarkei Henry Kolker, Willie Fung, and Patsy O'Connor. High lights include Miss Loys plane crash, Gable filming newsreel amid a rain of bombs, the trek, into the South American jungles, filmed on location amid actual savage tribes, the filming of a fog-bound liner on fire from the air, daring aeriar tricks in gliders, and the aerial rescue of the jungle imprisoned flyer.