AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19669, 11 December 1933, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

“THE MEDICINE MAN” AT REGENT LIGHT-HEARTED ENGLISH COMEDY. “The Medicine Man,” a British picture in which the principal parts are played by Claude Allister, and Frank Pettingell, outstanding British comedians, had Saturday’s audiences at the Regent in great humour. The Honourable Freddie Wiltshire (played by Claude Allister), is in his usual state of impecunioslty. In an effort to raise the wind, he foolishly promises to impersonate his friend, Dr. Primus, for a few hours. These few hours turn out to be exceedingly hectic. First, he is called upon to cure one or two minor ailments, which he does to the best of his ability, but without much success. Then he is called to a nearby police station to certify a man as drunk. This man turns out to be his prospective father-in-law, who has always posed as a temperance worker. Even the thrills of getting this old humbug to walk the chalk line and stumble over the words “truly moral” do not finish his hours’ excitement, for he is captured by a gang of bandits to tend one of their wounded. Freddie Wiltshire finds that the life of a “medicine man” is hectic, and, in all probability, short. In an outstanding supporting programme, "Called Back,” is the feature.