SCREEN STAR ENDS AFRICAN HOLIDAY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 June 1933, Page 3

SCREEN STAR ENDS AFRICAN HOLIDAY.

After a six-months vacation spent hunting big game in Africa, Gary Cooper returns to the screen to co-star with Tallulah Bankhead in Paramount’s * ‘Devil and the Deep,” which is at the Eegent Theatre to-night. The months he spent in .Africa seemed less remote when he read the script of the picture. Eor the action, of “‘Devil and the Deep’’ is set in a small port on the north coast of that continent. Charles Laughton, noted English character actor, making his movie debut in the picture, is cast as commander of a submarine based at the port. He is insanely jealous of Miss Bankhead, his wife. Cooper, a young lieutenant, is sent to replace am officer transferred because of negligence of duty—a charge brought against him by Laughton, who suspected him of being too interested in his wife. Cooper and Miss Bankhead meet, neither knowing who the other is, and fall in love. When Laughton discovers this fact, he gets them aboard his craft, heads it for another vessel, and then turns the controls over to Cooper as crash. In the crippled sufmarine, lying on the ocean floor, ensues the most dramatic action of the picture.