"KLONDIKE ANNIE”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20504, 24 August 1936, Page 9

"KLONDIKE ANNIE”

MAE WEST AT REGENT There have been few stars with the glamour that pervades the screen work of Mae West, and the latest example of her ability to both act and entertain is “Klondike Annie,” which is the current attraction at the Regent Theatre. A strong cast supports the blonde star— Victor McLaglen as the hard-boiled Bull Brackett, skipper of the tramp steamer, Java Maid, Phillip Reed, and Helen Jerome Eddy. The action begins in San Francisco of the ’nineties, where the beautiful Frisco Doll is kept practically a prisoner n the luxurious gambling house of Chan Lo. The infatuated half-caste finds that the Doll is trying to escape with an admirer, and in a struggle she stabs him with his own knife. Fleeing from the law, the Doll finds sanctuary on the rough coastal steamer of Bull Brackett. At Vancouver another passenger joins the vessel, Sister Annie Alden. The rigours of the voyage are too much for the frail girl, who dies before Nome is reached. But before this she has impressed the Doll with the importance of the evangelical work, and when finally the latter cheats justice by assuming the little missionary’s identity she feels that she owes the mission a debt of honour.