TROPICAL HATE AND LOVE

Evening Star, Issue 22671, 10 June 1937, Page 2

TROPICAL HATE AND LOVE

‘WHITE HUNTER * STRONGLY EMOTIONAL Love and hate in a tropical atmosphere provide the theme of ‘ White Hunter,’ which will commence to-mor-row at the State. Warner Baxter and June Lang are brilliantly cast in a story that provides full measure of excitement and romance. Assisting the stars is an excellent and _ impressive cast headed by Gail Patrick, Alison Skipworth, Wilfrid Lawson, and George Hassell. Warner Baxter plays a hunter-guide in a strange and foreboding country. By a coincidence he is engaged for the hunting expedition of Wilfrid Lawson, munitions magnate, and the man responsible for Baxter’s exile and his father’s death. Lawson is accompanied by his young wife, Gail Patrick, his daughter by another marriage, the beautiful June Lang. Alison Skipworth, a talkative shrew, and George Hassell, her henpecked husband. It is not until their •aeroplane has departed, not to_ return for a month, that Lawson discovers who Baxter is. Certain that the man he has wronged will seek to _ square accounts, Lawson is overcome with fear and determines to forestall him. Under an ominous sky, the party encamps. During the first night June Lang’s life is menaced, and Baxter heroically saves her. Gail finds Baxter to be her former lover, but because he has found her to be false and dangerous, fails to revive the old feeling. Oppressed by the' fierce menace on all sides, by his fear of what Baxter may do, Lawson tries to escape. When his attempt is foiled he decides to end the grim battle of survival between himself and Baxter by planning to shoot him “ accidentally ” during an elephant _ hunt. Meanwhile, jealous Gail has lied to June about Baxter’s relations with her (Gail), and June, heartbroken, runs blindly from the camp in to the wilds. The hunt gradually reaches a climax of plotted murder, self-sacrificing heroism, and love. ‘ White Hunter ’ is June Lang’s third picture with Warner Baxter. ‘ I Loved You Wednesday ’ was the first.