ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1932, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

NEW PLYMOUTH OPERA HOUSE. ... •'■CAUGHT PLASTERED.” Cpnimeneing to-day and said to be one of the best laugh tonics of the season,, is Plastered,” presented by the chemists of mirth, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. These two merry comedians have returned in a further dizzy whirl of madcap revelry iVith their little £irl friend, Dorothy l«ee, .and .an excellent suppprting cast. These ineprrigi'ble laugh fcifigs are said to be funnier than ever in an altogether refreshing way.. In this, production the comedians gambol ludicrpusly into good Samaritanism, save an old lady from the poorhouse, put a bankrupt buriiiess on its feet and foil the plot, of the suave villain who is forever poking his moustache around the corner. S6als may be reserved at Collier’s, or by ’phone updn ringing the theatre after 1 o’clock this afternoon. ‘TRADER HORN’ NEXT WEDNESDAY “Trader Horn,” MetrO-Gdldwyn-Mayer’s sensational filffi of the famous book of African adventure, Will opep pt the Opera House' next Wednesday, t?s tile biggest undertaking in the filming of adventure in hisfoiy. With a motorised safari of a hundred trucks and autos, the troupe pressed into jungles Africa nevPr before traversed by white men. They carried the first and only sound recording apparatus ever brought to Africa’s jungles, and filmed and recorded tke drama, With: wild beasts, savage native dances and ceremonies and . other details right on- the ground. They covered British East Africa, the Belgian Congo, and invaded the dreaded AiUtehiSdP ‘ Falls “sleejipg sjckpeSS” country, in the 2,000-mile Ideation trip. The story, as adapted from the famous book by Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis, deals with the trader' affd his protege, Reni, wjio promises a woman, missionary to find the “White Goddess” of the savage Isdrgi, whom she belieVes to be her daughter, lpst in a native raid ps a baby. How they brave terrors of the jungle and the savage head hunters, find the girl, escape, both fall in love wifh her, and Trader Horn’s drapiatic sacrifice at the end to send the two younger people to safety are apiong the elements of the talc. It binds together wild elephant charges, fights between lions and leopards, thrills among crocodiles, the charge of a savage rhinoceros, and other terrific natural drama of the jungles.