AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 211, 20 August 1934, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

STATE S JUNCLE FILM SCHOOL HOLIDAY ATTRACTION ‘‘Wild Cargo” is the picture that the State will show this change, and apart from being of absorbing interest to the general public it is the best of tare for the children. The Malayan jungle was the scene of a most unique episode in the filming of ‘ Wild Cargo.’’ The incident involved the capture of a beautiful leopard in a manner unparalleled for its adroitness. Leopards are usually caught with large steel nets, after being lured in with live bait. However, the rare clouded leo-, pard obtained for the noted wild animal collector’s current ‘‘Wild Cargo” was made to nose-dive into a net, not walk into it. Frank Buck, on his expeditions, carries a high-powered rifle, loaded with mushroom-tipped bullets; not to slav animals, but fcr protection in an emergency. The bullets happened to be perfect for the task at hand, which was to dislodge the leopard without wounding it. For the animal was found in a tree, out on a limb. And there it would stay until brought, down. I'he native crew was instructed to spread the net under the tree. Thereupon, Buck took his rifle and started a systematic target practice against the branch on which the animal was crouching. The first bullet nicked the branch behind the leopard’s body. The second cut it more. With a warning to the boys to be ready to advance and fold the net over their prey, Buck shot again and again. The branch parted and down came the leopard. A quick rush by the boys, and the steel links of the net were lapped over its frantic form. COSY THEATRE “GOLD DIGGERS:” TUNEFUL COMEDY. Aline Mc-xMahon and Joan Biondell ar e the gold diggers in the latest film of that name, now at the Cosy I'heatre; Guy Kibbee and Warren William are their not-so-very-willing victims; Ginger Rogers is the persevering but unlucky “vamp,’’ and Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell supply the necessary romantic love interest. The story is clever, the music good, the settings marvellous and the film contains some of the most elaborate undressing yet seen on the screen. There are several clever songs, the best being ‘‘Petting in the Park,’’ which is put across very wittily The others, while good are composed primarily as backgrounds for ballets. Here, the one on the corkscrew staircase with the girls dressed in helical frocks is particularly clever, good effects being obtained by complete darkness and the figures outlined by light. The story is, perhaps, better than the average, dealing with a trio of down-and-out show-girls who land good jobs, only to find that the show, at the last moment, may have to be withdrawn. No, not because of the censor but because the leading juvenile develops the pains of old age. Everything, however, is solved tunefully in the end and the four gold diggers realise. the error of their ways and decide to settle down—after their victims have settled up—with the ‘‘play boys” they have been running around with ARCADIA THEATRE. WILL ROGERS IN ‘‘DAVID HA RUM.”

I’he film that thousands upon thousands oi people have asked Will Rogers to make is now at the Arcadia Theatre, It is ‘‘David Haiutn,” and has the famous star tn what is the most fitting role ol his entire career. Presenting tho character of the shrewd horse-trader with a heart that alternates between cold steel and gold, Rogers is said never to have been better. Every facet tn the makeup ot this famous character of literature is given full play by America’s foremost humor-ist-philosopher. He fairly glories in the role. It is a film that has the elements that will find a response tn the heart of every spectator. The screen play, following closely the typically American theme of the novel, concerns itself with the life of a shrewd and ruthless horse-trainer. His dealings with the people in the small town in which he lives are cold-hearted and .unethical. But a young man who is employed as a teller in the bank owned by the horse-trader, learns of his concealed sympathy for the poor, and realises that underneath his bard crust he really has a soft heart. REGENT THEATRE, HASTINGS. A GRIPPING DRAMA. “Miss Fane’s Baby Is Stolen” is one of the most intensely gripping dramas that have been brought to the screen. It has a story that strikes at the very hearts ot women. It gives Dorothea Wieck opportunity for powerful emotional scenes which, as you can imagine, she perforins tn a thrilling fashion. Also in this picture which shows at the Regent Theatre to-night, is Baby LeRoy, Paramount’s infant star, who is supporting Dorothea Wieck and Alice Brady. Leßoy, who has appeared in four previous pictures during the past

year, has every action of his photographed by a motion picture camera. He has been sketched by famous artists, -nd now A. V. Louis, British sculptor, has written to the baby’s mother from London, asking permission to do the baby’s figure in stone. The picture is full of interest from start to finish and cannot fail to appeal. The supporting films have been well chosen, and altogether the programme is an outstanding one.