“ Elephants Never Forget, Romantic Comedy

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 174, 26 July 1939, Page 11

“ Elephants Never Forget, Romantic Comedy

BEAST TREATED BY DR. TIBBITT (OLIVER HARDY) (State: Screening Tuesday next). Hal Roach’s new romantic comedy “Elephants Never Forget” has a star-studded cast which includes Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, June Lang, Billie Burke, Alice Brady, James Ellison and Harry Langdon. The story of ‘‘Elephants Never Forgot” unfolds in Caterville, Mississippi, in the year 1870. Oliver Hardy plays .the role of Dr. Tibbitt, a genial, easygoing medico, who has two great loves in his life—his daughter and the Declaration of Independence. His life becomes deeply involved with intrigue nnd publicity, however, when tho town’s society arbiters learn that the doctor has treated an elephant, Zcnobia, who is ballyhooing a medicine show. Further complications follow when Zeuobia, to show her gratitude, breaks her chains and hunts out Dr. Tibbitt at his homo.

Billie Burke and Jean Parker play the roles of Dr. Tibitt’s wife and daughter respectively. Alice Brady impersonates a society snob, whose son, played by James Ellison, is in love with Tibbitt’s daughter. A thrilling climax is provided by a court scandal which involves all the important families of the town as well as sentimental Zeno-

“No woman living to-day anywhere in tho world is capable of writing a book equal in power and splendour of imagination to the novel ‘Wuthering Heights’ written by Emily Bronte in 1847. I am glad it now appears on the screen, because the picture is so admirable, so faithful to the novel, and also because it will send thousands to reading and re-reading the book.”—Win. Lyon Phelps, Professor of English Literature, Yale University.