ENTERTAINMENTS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4008, 4 February 1938, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

AT THE REGENT. FINAL SCREENING TO-NIGHT. “THE LADY FIGHTS BACK'.” It was the young engineer’s idea to build a dam. But the girl, who managed a fashionable salmon fishing club on the north woods river, had a different idea. She fought back with every force at her command

Starting with this situation, Kent Taylor, as the engineer, and Irene Hervey, as the girl, are catapulted into a captivating comedy drama in Universal’s rollicking production of “The Lady Fights Back” which is now at the Regent Theatre. Complications and surprises develop thick and fast as Miss Hervey starts her campaign to make the engineer forget his plan for building the dam. The scenario by Brown Holmes and Robert T. Shannon, is based on Arthur Stringer’s hilarious novel “Heather of the High Hand,” which is now on the book stands. It has every element to make it a sure-fire comedy hit. There is laughter, romance, action and drama amid the majestic beauty of a sparkling river paradise in the great north woods. Through every scene the story whirls along in the blithe mood of “My Man Godfrey.”

COMMENCING SATURDAY. “COME AND GET IT!” Hollywood’s “eatingest” picture comes to the local Regent Theatre on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. It’s “Come and Get It!” Samuel Goldwyn’s production of Edna Ferber’s great novel of the lumber camps of the north woods, with Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea and Frances Farmer in the leading roles. There are 12 eating sequences in the picture, necessitating the consumption of more food than ever was eaten in one film before. In one sequence, which took four days to shoot, 80 hungry lumberjacks consumed 300 pounds of meat, 50 dozen eggs, 200 pounds of oatmeal 4'oo pounds of potatoes, 140 pounds of butter, 50 gallons of coffee, and huge quantities of sugar, cream and pies. “Come And Get It!” is released through United Artists.

AT THE EMPIRE. FINAL SCREENING TO-NIGHT. “THE MAN IN BLUE.” Drama throbs faster than heartbeats in Universal’s “The Man In Blue,” which opened on Wednesday at the Empire Theatre. Written and produced by Kubec Glasmon, who has turned out such notable screen plays as “Public Enemy,” “Unoin Depot” and “Show Them No Mercy,” it is a picture that makes a vivid impression on audiences. The central characters are a policeman and a boy whom the officer adopts after killing the lad’s burglar father in a gun fight. The drama develops when the youth, having grown up to manhood, makes a mistake at the bank where he is a teller. Circumstances indicate that he intended to emblezzle some money from the bank. When even his foster father suspects him, the boy’s world falls in ruins about him. In his bitterness he yields to the influence of a crooked uncle and is sent to prison. The return of faith and trust bring about his regeneration and provide the subject of a tense, compelling climax.

COMMENCING TO-MORROW.

“THE MAN WHO FOUND HIMSELF.” How a woman’s love re-builds a man’s shattered career, and inspires him with new ambition and determination, is the motivating force of “ The Man Who Found Himself,” a romance in which John Beal, Joan Fontaine, and Philip Huston are featured. The story deals with a rising young surgeon who suffers some unpleasant notoriety which obliges him to abandon his career and become an outcast. Eut a nurse who discovers his secret takes him in hand and sets about his regeneration, which ends in a thrillpacked romance. Jane Walsh, Billy Gilbert, George Irving, and Frank M. Thomas have the other principal roles in “ The Man Who Found Himself,” an R.K.O. Radio picture opening to-morrow at the Empire Theatre.