AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1934, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVFIYBODY’S PICTURES

“TUGBOAT ANNIE.” ’ Thrills, laughs and heart throbs all mingle in the reunion of Marie Dressier and Wallace Beery, beloved team of “l\lin and Bill,” who are again costarred at the Princess Theatre in “Tugboat Annie,” filn.fisation, /of the famous - Saturday Evening Post stoiies of a battling . feminine tugboat captain „ and her sanguinary -adventures. Miss'Dressier plays Annie, with Beery cast as her shiftless but good-natured mate, Captain Terry. They battle and make up again for countless laughs; there is ia d/amatic note of mother love and a gigantic.thrill in the climax when - Beery enters; a blazing firebox to repair a boiler at sea and thus save a storm-tessed liner. Episodes in several of the Post stories are used. Annie and Terry raise their boy to be a sea captain; he seeks to - remove them from the squalid tug that is, their home. Terry lapses into his old drinking habits and is disowned by his son, -but comes through in the stirring sacrifice at the finish. Robert Young, who scored in “Hell Belovv,” is seen as the young captain. Maureen O’Sullivan lias the romantic feminine load, and the cast also includes Willard Robertson, Tammany Young, Frankie Darro, Jack Pennick and Paul Hurst. Good supports.