ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 March 1939, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

METEOR THEATRE. “EXPOSED.” Exploring a new motion picture field, the candid camera magazines that have revolutionised journalism during the past few years, Universal’s “Exposed,” featuring Glenda Farrell and Otto Kruger, is now showing at the Meteor Theatre. Heading the talented supporting cast are Herbert Mundin, David Oliver Lorraine Kruger, Charles D. Brown. Bernard Nadell. Richard Lane and Eddie Anderson. Miss Farrell is cast as a candid camera girl who risks life and limb to furnish a photo magazine pictorial with "scoops” of news events and human interest stories. When she makes a picture lay-out of a down-and-out attorney, portrayed by Kruger, ho sues for libel and begins a dramatic comeback in public life. Her fast, lino of chatter and her candid lens take the feminine photographer in and out of many jams. culminating when she and -the lawyer are put “on the spot” by a mob after she lias obtained photographic evidence of _ the gangsters at their racketeering activities. “SWING YOUJI LADY.”

Hillbilly hilarity is the dominant note of “Swing Your Lady,” a gay, speedy comedy trout tho Warner Bros, studies, now snowing at the Meteor Theatre. Its novel, tuneful, picturesque—and altogether a great deal of fun! V ou’d better see it. There’s a smart New A ork wrestling manager (Humphrey Bogart) who s conducting one of his boys (Nat Pendleton) on a tour ol the country to pick up loose change. You know Nat—dumb, but powerful. They hit a hamlet in the Bills atid encounter an Amazonian. female blacksmith (Louise Fazenda) who’s willing lo wrestle any of the champ*. KOSY THEATRE. ■ ■'.l'llE BORDER PATROL.” Willi a blazing six-gun in hi; hand and a beautiful girl in Bis anus. George O’Brien rides through a fast, and exciting series of adventures in "1 he Border Patrol.*' wliielt is now showing at the Rosy Theatre. Fighting and loving more recklessly than ever, O'Brien this time meets his match in a girl who is the equivalent of a pack of wildcats. Before the film reaches its whirlwind climax Polly Ann Young leaches O’Brien things he never guessed about tho West. Miss Young gets O’Brien into trouble in the early liiomcms of the film when in a forest she delies his warning about forest lives. Angered by her evident headstrong nature, O'Brien picks her up and carts Iter nil' bodily to patrol headquarters. \\ hen his captain reprimands him for bis action, O'Brien resigns and gets a job from Miss Young's grandfather taming the heiress. Polly Ann is more than attracted hv tho dashing O'Brien, but when site, finds out that lie is attempting to play guardian to her, she blows up and sets off a powder keg' of excitement by eloping with tBo head of a gang of jewel smugglers. Produced bv Sol Lessor, "The Border la--11of also features Key Mason. Mary Bonin mid Smiley Burnette. David Howard directed tho production. "SHOW THEM NO MERCY.”

The associate picture, a gripping story of a nation's war on crime, interspersed with moments of hilarious comedy and tender romance, is provided in ‘fellow them No Mercy.” Rochelle Hudson, who lias the leading role, is teamed romanticailv with Falward Norris, while _ Cesar Romero and Bruce Cabot arc prominently cast as the leaders of the outlaws. When tho heroine amt tier husband blunder m on the hide-out of criminals waiting for the alarm of their crime to how over thev become prisoners. I lie illness ot their baby makes them demand their freedom. But their captors have other lueas. Tiny force the husband to pass some of lhe “hot” money and discover that it is mat ked.