“McGREGOR FUND BENEFIT”
“STEAMBOAT ROUND THE BEND” STARS WILL ROGERS Drama and suspense is brought lo Will Rogers’ rousing picture of Mississippi steamboat life, “Steamboat Round the Beiul.” Special interest attaches to the screening of this iihu in view of the fact that the proceeds will help to swell the fund that is being organised to provide for the dependents of the late Squadron Leader McGregor whose tragic death has removed one of New Zealand’s foremost aviators.
Two unusual entertainment elements combine to make the great and moving story of “Steamboat Round the Bend.” One is the laugh-filled rivalry of Will Rogers and Irvin S. Cobb. America’s two greatest humorists, as the crusty captains of competing boats; the other is the wistful and tender romance of Anne Shirley and John McGuire. Ben Luicien Burnam’s novel furnished the original story for “Steamboat Round the Bend.” Producer Sol M. Wurtzel, Director John Ford and scenarists Dudley Nichols and Lamai Trotti, all of whom assisted in the making of “Judge Priest,” are again joined" with Rogers in “Steamboat Round the Bend.”
In the supporting cast are Stopin Fetchit, Eugene Pallette and Berton Churchill, assisting Rogers in comedy characterisations.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 21 March 1936, Page 8
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