Spills, Chills and Real Thrills

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 175, 27 July 1938, Page 11

Spills, Chills and Real Thrills

PUNCTUATE LAUGHS OF FORMBY’S “I SEE ICE” (Regent: Coming Soon.) Having survived the perils of the T.T. Motor Cycle races in “No Limit,” dared audiences to “Keep On Their Seats,” while laughing at his second screen scream, “Feathered the theatres' Nests” and shown the world how to “Keep Fit” funnily, George Formby has now made “I See Ice” on the decidedly slippery way. Punctuating the laughs are some of the most exciting thrills ever witnessed. These occur during the International Ice Hockey Match, which George unwittingly referees. The amazing speed, skill and daredevil spills of the world famous exponents of ice skating, in this sequence, has to bo see to be believed. As in “Keep Fit,” George’s leading lady is again that blue-eyed Kay Walsh, and other principals in this Basil Dean-A.T.P. production are Cyril Ritchard, Betty Stockfeld, Garry Marsh and Frank Leighton. Anthony Kiramins wrote the story along with Austin Melford, the same Austin who put such fits of fun into the dialogue of • ‘ Keep Fit.” This time they have made George a young jihotographer, more amateur than mature, who takes the truiu for Birmingham, but is so “carried away” on meeting petite Kay Walsh that he arrive in London instead. Here George gets a temporary job as property man ia a theatre, all of which is enroute to the mammoth ice rink and George’s antiee therein in his endeavour to qualify not only as an expert skater bnt as an Ice llockev champion! Everything end* happily for all, except Cyri Ritchard who is the villain of tho piece, and of course, George finds the time and occasion to fit in four of his inimitable songs, which he sings to his own banjo accompaniment.

Jean Arthur hug returned to Columbia Studios where she has been assigned the leading role in Frank Capra’s production, “You Can’t Take It With Yon,” tho Pulitzer Prize Play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. Refreshed after a lengthy vacation, the blonde young star assumed her part with enthusiasm and remarked that she is looking forward to the brightest phase of her career. Hollywood regards it as a omen that she is resuming screen work in a Capra production. It was that director’s “Mr Deeds Goes To Town,” co-starring Miss Arthur with Gary Cooper, that first firmly entrenched her as a star. Miss Arthur’s most recent roles were with Cooper in 4 ‘The Plainsman,” with Charles Boyer in “ History

Is Made At Night,” with Edward Arnold—who is also in the cast of “You Can’t Take It With Yon”—in “Easy Living,” and with George Brent in Columbia's “More Than A Secretary. ’ - Allan Lane is off for a fishing trip now that tho cameras havo taken their final turn for RKO Radio’s “Crime Ring” in which Lane teams with 'Frances Mercer. Tho brunette actress is remaining in Hollywood for a tew days after which she would like to fly to New York and visit her fnther, sportwriter Sid Meroer.