SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN TALKIES

Evening Star, Issue 20846, 16 July 1931, Page 7

SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN TALKIES

•RANGO’ REACHES REGENT TO-MORROW 1 Entertainment different from the usual run of screen faro will bo featured at tho Regent Theatre to-mor-row. The picture in question is Paramount’s ‘ Rango,’ made in tho jungles of Sumatra by Ernest Schoedsack, coproducer of those two amazing films, * Chang ’ and ‘ Grass.’ In ‘ Rango ’ Schoedsack has gone one step further than be did in either * Chang ’ or 1 Grass.’ l And that one additional step makes ‘ Rango ’ a unique and unusual picture. I’ or in ‘Rango’ Schoedsack not only .brings to the screen primitive animal life but also, in story form, contrasts human life with animal life in tho jungle. Specifically he has taken an ape (called Rango) and his son, and a native man and his son, and shows both m tho everlasting struggle for existence, their battle for life, their unceasing warfare against their common enemy, . tho deadly ruler of the jungle, the tiger. And the development of this story is as interesting and as fascinating as tho very idea itself. Schoedsack first secured the services of a native man and his son. Then he made “ polite ” overtures to an ape and his son. Then with camera and gun he developed his story, always in wait for the entrance of the picture’s villain, the tiger. It took Mr Schoedsack eighteen months to assemble results that were satisfactory to him. Eighteen months in tho heart of a jungle which only a handful *of men had ever penetrated! At the risk of life, ho has gathered a picture of vivid thrills that have been assembled into a throbbing, fascinating dramatic story. Patrons will find ‘ Rango ’ a compelling motion picture, one that will hold undivided interest from beginning to end. It is the type of picture which, through the very nature of its subject mutter is seen all too rarely on the screen. ‘ Social Errors.’ which also opens at the Regent Theatre to-mori’ow, features Leon Errol, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, and Stuart Erwin. Errol has the role of a bad man who is so crooked that he can’t stand up straight. His attempts to make Allen wander from the path of righteousness lead to a series of amusing adven tures on a,modern health farm, where Arlen meets Mary Brian, as the daughter of. a big gas and oil man who declines to ho in good health. Erwin, the dumb Axel of ‘Sweetie,’ has the part of an amateur sleuth who could not even catch a cold. Box plans are at Tho Bristol.