AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. TO-NIGHT TO-NIGHT “THE PLAINSMAN,” Handsome Gary Cooper is cast as “Wild Bill” Hiekok in the saga, and lovely Jean Arthur portrays “Calamity Jane,” famous frontier-woman who ■ loved the silent, hard-fighting peafco | officer, but could not have him. They are a far different pair in “The Plainsman” than they were in “Mr Deeds.” and yet their assignment to the leading romantic roles is regarded as a .master stroke of casting. Cooper is widely know n for his portrayals of the outdoor man-of-action, soldier- orJ fortune and soeker-at:er-danger. “Wild Bill.” who was sent- .into the West by the Government in the early seventies to find out who was responsible for selling guns to the Indians, was 1 all of that. “Calamity Jane,” on the 1 other hand, was a hard-boiled beauty, equally familiar with shooting irons and the bull whacker’s whip. There was something of the tomboy about “Calamity Jane” which is particularly adaptj able to the hovdenish Miss Arthur. Be- . hind this tender romance De Mille paints on heroic canvas the whole of the ! American frontier scene in the ten years which immediately followed the 1 Civil War. Such famous frontier folk as James Ellison, Helen Burgess, Jack McCall, Porter Hall, Charles Pickford, John Miljan and '2OOO Cheyenne Indians, 259 army cavalrymen and an equal number of horses arc cast in this picture. TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. “DON’T TURN E’M LOOSE.” RKO Radio assembled a note-worthy array of established troupers for “Don’t Turn E’m Loose.’’ Lewis Stone is the small town school superintendent who, as a member of the state parole hoard, suddenly learns his son is the notorious criminal Bat Roberts As he ponders this dilemma, or paroling his boy or keep him behind bar s so that he will not harass society, the tense situations mounts to heart-gripping proportions. In the east are James Glecson, Bruce Cabot, Louise Latimer, Betty Grable and others.