ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 22 March 1939, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “THE BORDER PATROL.” With a blazing six-gun in his hand and a beautiful girl in his arms, George O'Brien rides through a fast and exciting series of adventures in “The Border Patrol,” which is now showing at the Kosy 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 ils whirlwind climax Polly Ann Young teaches O'Brien things lie never guessed about the West. Miss Young gets O’Brien into trouble in the early moments of the film when in a forest she defies his warning about forest tires. Angered by her evident headstrong nature, O'Brien picks her up and carts her off bodily to patrol headquarters. When his captain reprimands him for his action, O'Brien resigns and gets a job from Miss Young’s grandfather laming the heiress. Polly Ann is mere than attracted by the. da-shing O’Brien, hut. when she finds out that ho is attempting to play guardian to her, she blows up and sets oil a powder keg of excitement by eloping with the head of a gang cf jewel smugglers. Produced bv Sol Lessor, “The Border Patrol” also features Roy Mason, Mary Doran and Smiley Burnette. David Howard directed Ihe produel ion. “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 “Show Them No Mercy.” Rochelle Hudson, who has the leading role, is teamed romantically with Edward Norris, while Cesar Romero and Bruce Cabot arc prominently east as the leaders of the outlaws. When the heroine and her husband blunder in on the hide-out of criminals waiting for the alarm of their crime to blow over, they bccumc prisoners.

METEOR THEATRE. “EXPOSED.” Exploring a new motion picture field, the candid camera magazines that have revolutionised journalism during the past few years, Universal’s “Expceed,” .. featuring Glenda Farrell and Otto Kruger, is now showing at the Meteor Theatre. Heading the talented supporting cast arc Herbert Mundin, David Oliver Lorraine Kruger, Charles 1). 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 mIcrest stories. When she makes a picture lay-out of a down-and-out attorney, portrayed by Kruger, he sues for libel and begins a dramatic comeback ill public life. Her fast line 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” hv a mob after she has obtained photographic evidence of . the gangsters at their racketeering activities. “SWING YOUR LADY.” I-lillhilly hilarity is the dominant note of “Swing Your Lady,” a gay, speed} comedy Irom the Warner Bros, studies, now showing at the Meteor theatre. Its novel, tuneful, picturesque—and altogether a groat deal of tun! lon u belter see it. There’s a smart New York wrestling manager (Humphrey Bogart) who s conducting one of his hoys (Nat lendleton) on a tour o[ the country to pick up loose change. You know .Nat—dumb, but powerful. They hit a hamlet. m the lulls and encounter an Amazonian lemale blacksmith (Louise Fazenda) who s willing to wrestle any of the champs.