TOWN HALL TALKIES

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4483, 3 September 1940, Page 2

TOWN HALL TALKIES

“C H E CKEBi S” SHOWING NEXT SATURDAY There is wild excitement and. cheers as Jane Withers rides down the home stretch in “Checkers” her newest 2(0-Oentury-Fox picture, but what will thrill most of all is the grand human story. The uproarious fun. the aching thrills and the bright enchantment that come once in every young life unfolds on the screen of the Town Hall on Saturday next, and the audience share it all with Jane, so proud in those checkered racing silks. Jane recently was voted one of the six most popular stars of today and in this story of galloping hoofs, and gallant hearts she’s at her very best. Stuart Erwin and Una Merkel play the lovebirds in a hilarious sevenyear romance, and Marvin Stephens, the bad boy of “Borrowing Trouble”, is the first “crush” of Jane’s career. Stuart, as the slickest horse-trader who ever got stung, keynotes his romantic life* with the motto: “Love me, love my horse, but Una is a girl who refuses to fill her hope chest with horse blankets. When, after the never-say-die courtship, Stuart again pops the question, it’s not a pop—it’s an explosion.