“Miss Pacific Fleet” Is Riotous Film

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 141, 17 June 1936, Page 5

“Miss Pacific Fleet” Is Riotous Film

TWO BLONDE BEAUTIES TEAMED AS GOLD DIGGERS (Regent: Screening To-day.) Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, blonde beauties of the screen, again teamed as gold diggers, return in the new Warner Bros, production Miss Pacific Fleet.’* Playing with them are those two inimitable comedians, Hugh Herbert and Alien Jenkins, with Warner Hull, the famous radio singer, in the romantic role. The picture is a gay and rollicking comedy which also carries a glamorous romance.

The fun starts in an amusement park at a naval base on the Pacific Coast, where Joan and Glenda, two stranded chorus beauties, are ruuniug a cane rack. The fleet comes in auji Allen Jenkins, in the role of the champion prizo tighter of tho fleet, puts them clean out of business by his skill in ringing canes. Hugh Herbert, in the role of a wily promoter, suggests a beauty contest. Jenkins agrees to fight the local pug in order to w T in tho 5,000 votes offered as a prize to give to Joan. Herbert can’t help taking a sly peck at the q)retty girls, and his wife, a part played by Minna Gombcll, nearly wrecks him. Jenkins wins the fight after a terrific beating, but he throws his votes for a dumb-witted girl when he finds that Joan has slipped off with his chum instead of attending the fight. Hilarious situations follow each other in quick succession winding up with a melodramatic smash in which there is a kidnapping, a motor-boat chase for tho abducted girl, and a free-for-all battle between sailors, marines and their girls at the contest, hall. Others in the east • include Eddie Acuff, Mario Wilson, Guinn Williams, and Anita Kerry besides hundreds of extras in tho roles of sailors and marine?'

’When Gladys Swarthout, young opera star, completes her new Paramount musical, “Give Us This Night,” sko will start on a concert tour of twenty cities before arriving for her curent season at the New York Metropolitan Opera. <S> <J> <3> <t>

Traces of W. C. Fields’ visit to the Samoan Islands were discovered in a subsequent visit to Eddie Sutherland, now directing Fields in “Poppy,” who said he found the natives juggling coconuts, bananas and other objects after the manner taught by the Paramount comedian fifteen years ago.