AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 9 May 1936, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Graeie Fields has been up to her usual stunt of spreading laughter around the place, this time with her new picture, “Look I'p and Laugh-'’ which is now at the Opera House. She frolics through this merry story, speeilaly written for her by J. B. Priestly, spreading happiness with her funny antics and very catchy songs. She scores with a charming straight song-—a sentimental number “Love is Everywhere.” With Graeie in the brilliant east is a great team ol comedians including Harry Tate. Billy Nelson. Douglas Wakefield and Morris Harvey. “PURSUIT’’—MONDAY Drama moves on wheels in a lilting comedy romance with thrills and gripping drama in “Pursuit,' Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer’s fast moving story of adventure on the highways and byways coming on Monday to the Opera House. If deals with a young couple trying to smuggle a child, object of a guardianship suit, out of the state. Pursued by private detectives, crooks and all kinds of enemies, they hide out in auto camps and farms and in a clever denouement win the Mexican border. Chester Norris, who scored in “Public Hero.'' and Sally Eilers, recently seen in “Dance Team'' play the fugitive couple, with Scotty Beckett of “Our Gang’’ comedies, as the child. (J. Henry Gordon as the private detective. Henry Travers as the comical paperhanger. Dorothy Peterson as the child's mother. Harold Huber as a pursuing crook. ! Dramatic highlights include a plane, i accident; hiding of the fugitive; the couple, handcuffed together escape in the auto camp; the crooks seize the child. Regent Theatre Every reader of Jack Londtn, cue

of the most marvellous imagination writers of tho last century, will be sure to see “The Call of the Wild’’ to-dav or to-night, at the .Regent Theatre. London leaves a lasting impression of a star in development, both in exploitation and thought—evolutionary thought—that has passed. and “The Ca'l of t*’e Wild’’ has thus a philosophical -s well as a dramatic appeal for oil. .Rich in rugged drama and (dean fun, <’.•_> picture fascinates every member of every family— the yongster.- and their dads ■won’t hnvo to be to’d for they've all thrilled to this most fa.'ous of Jack London’s tales. 'I he lore story, beautifully played by Clark Gable and Loretta Young, will Insure the feminine contingent a grand timo. Jack Oakie contributes the comedy, new dog star—a huge, soft eyed St. Bernard named Buck —makes his screen debut, in “('all of the Wild.’’ The film was shot amid the majestic beauty of sub-zero Mt. Baker, was adopted by Gene Fowler and Leonard Prashins—a brilliant piece of work. Gable is ideally east as a swash-buckling prospector who sets out with his buddy. Shorty Hoolihan (Jack Oakie) to find a “lost claim.’’ They rescue the beautiful Claire Blake (Loretta Young) from wolves ond learn her husband has been lost searching for the sapie claim, discovered by his dead father. The “ tako-what-you-want ” code of the Northwest is foreign to this over-civilised woman and the pair ore in conflict. Their mutual contempt. turns to a deop and genuine love. The trio locate the rich claim, but Smith, a villainous prospector who surprises them and takes their gold and their canoe, and drowns in the rapids, with hi.s stolen bounty. The unexpected return of Claire’s husband offers a challenge to Thornton’s code, but ho finally agrees to let her go.