TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 26 January 1933, Page 2

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

1 ‘PAYMENT DEFERRED’ ’. The -main attraction at the Hawera Opera House to-night and to-morrow evening will .be the Metro-Goldwyn-Ma.yer feature “Payment Deferred,” starring the' Eiiglish stage star Charles Laughton. Although a newcomer to the screen, he gives a. performance that must be ranked amongst the finest. The supporting cast includes Maureen O’Sullivan, Veree Teasdale, and Dorothy Peterson. On the same programme' the latest Laurel and Hardy comedy entitled “-Scram” will be presented. The first pictures of the arrival and reception of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith at New Plymouth will also be shown to-night for the last time. Seats may he reserved at Miss Blake’s; ’phone 2713.

“BRING ’EM BACK ALIVE”. “Bring ’Em Back Alive,” visualising the adventures of Frank Buck in fetching) the largest and most ferocious beasts from the jungle to the zoos of the world, will be shown at the Opera House matinee on Saturdav and will continue for a season of three nights. The picture shows, among other events a .stalking, preying, frothing female tiger cut a tinv baby elephant off from its mother. The baby pachyderm is no higher from the ground than a medium j sized, police dog. Still whimpering for its mother’s milk, it senses danger, j Its miniature trunk trumpets an StlS for mama. The .tiger relentless, tireless, intent on the kill, lopes along. The wee elephant runs this way and that. It turns - it scampers to the •brush wild with terror while the tiger enemy trails it with drooling tongue and bared fangs. Frank Buck is there with a long barrelled rifle. A careful, easy, well-timed shot brings the tiger down. And .then a wild chase to capture the baby elephant with bis bare hands. Again, a little black honey-bear ambles into camp. It is so young its eyes are still unopened. Buck places it in a rough-hewn cabin built six feet off the ground. Dinnertime, and a hungry cub, missing its mother, lifts the simple latch purely by accident. By instinct it rolls off to the jungle. Now comes the. villain of the piece • - • a long, lithe, forkedtongued snake coiled in the sun • , every ear and sense alive with hungry hope. And there’s the little bear. Innocent, ambling, trusting. The forked tongue leaps out • • •- the coiled body uncoils • • • dinnertime for Mr Snake. Lights out for Mr Bear ? But no. Kindly l providence, in the guise of Frank Buck’s native, boy, momentarily stops the snake and a little black honey-bear comes back home. The more dynamic portions of “Bring ’Em Back AHve,” RKO-Radio picture, shows 1 , actual combats between tigers and pythons, crocodiles, panther 'arid water buffalo. Clyde E. Elliott directed this production in the .Malay jungles for the Van Beuren Corporation.