TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 30 January 1933, Page 2

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

OPERA HOUSE-TO-NIGHT. “BRING ’EM BACK ALIVE.”. An unusual motion picture of jungle savage beasts in action is to be shown at the Hawera Opera House to-night and to-morrow night. It is “Bring ’Em Back Alive,” visualising the adventures of Frank Buck in fetching wild beasts from the jungle to the zoos of the world. The picture shows, among other events, a stalking female tiger "cut a baby elephant off from its mother. The baby pachyderm is no higher from the ground than a medium sized police dog. Still whimpering for its mother’s milk, it senses danger. Its miniature trunk trumpets an SO'S for mama. The tiger relentless, 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. But Frank Buck is there with a long barrelled rifle. A careful, easy, welltimed shot brings the tiger down. Then ensues a chase to capture the baby elephant with his bare hands. Again, a black honey bear ambles into camp. It is so young its eyes are still unopened. Buck places it in a rough-hewen cabin built six feet off the ground. Dinnertime, and a hungry cub, missing its mother, lifts the simple latch purely by accident. rSy instinct it rolls off to the jungle. Now conies the villain of the piece. . . a Jong, lithe forked tongued 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 providence, in the guise of Frank Buck’s native boy, momentarily stops the snake and a little black honey-bear comes home.

Cither portions of “Bring ’Em Back Alive,” RKO-Radio picture, shows actual combats between tigers and pythons, crocodiles, panther and water buffalo. Clyde E. Elliott directed this production in the Malay jungles for the Van Beuren Corporation. An excellent supporting programme is shown. Seats may be reserved at Miss Blake’s.

“ON OUR SELECTION.” After months of ceaseless, preparation, followed by many more months of hard work, and the spending of a fortune, the first real all-Australian talkie, “On Our Selection,” wa.s_ completed, and on Wednesday it will commence a season of five nights- and five ma.tinees at the Opera House, Hawera. Australia produced many “silent” pictures, but with the advent of the “talkies” the time came to produce the voice of Australia on the screen. Only after long consideration was “On Our Selection,” Siteele Rudd’s outstanding wayback story, selected as the vehicle. This modern story of Dad, Mum, Dave and all the rest* of the big-hearted Australian Rudd family, characteristic of the pioneer families of the great outback, is a- triumph for Australian film production. “The Selection,” Australia’s own story, as a stage play has convulsed thousand's of comedy lovers, hut the film .story, modernised, rewritten, and .specially adapted lor the screen, blazes a. new' trail of laughter in telling the world a- story of Australia to-day—a story tliat retains all the kookaburra laughs of the play and 1 allies them to thousands more in this talkie. Further enhancing the film story is the unlimited scope afforded by the audible screen —the gorgeous natural beauties of the Australian bush in early spring splendour.

GRAND THEATRE.

‘PENALTY OF FAME,.”

A number of nationally known radio entertainers take part in “Penalty of Fame,” the Universal newspaper drama, which shows finally to-night at the Grand 1 Theatre, with Lew Ayres in the starring role. Ayres is seen as a broadcasting columnist attached to a- New York newspaper, and a number of scenes are laid in the radio station from which he delivers his regular programme oif ,spioy bid-bits over the air. Among the Well-known radio performers appearing in these scenes are The Three Cheers, the famous Cocoanut Grove Trio of men singers, The Bluettes, trio of feminine vocalists, Everett Hoagland’.s dance Iband, and Emerson Treacy. Ayres’ supporting cast is headed by Maureen O’Sullivan, and also includes Louis Calhern, Walter Catlett, Nance O’Neill, Emerson Treacy. Margaret Lindsay and other favourites of the screen. The final episode of “Danger Island” is also pre-

sented.