THE EMPIRE THEATRE.

Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3178, 14 May 1932, Page 5

THE EMPIRE THEATRE.

PROGRAMME FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. “GOING WILD.” A riot of fast, moving' fun is “ Going Wild,” the First National and Vitaphone feature which will be the bill of fare at the Empire Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday next. The picture stars Joe E. Brown, the talking screen’s most popular comedian, and the result is that there is scarcely a quiet minute in the house. “ Going Wild ” is an even funnier picture than Brown’s two previous pictures, “ Hold Everything ” and “ Top Speed,” which .set attendance records everywhere in the country and established Brown on the top rung of comedy. “ Going Wild ” is a farce built around an airplane race. Brown is a newspaper reporter, broke, and out of a job, who is en route to Florida with a companion), Lawrence Gray. Brown, because of similar initials, is mistaken for the author] of a famous book on aviation, and the whole town is at the station to greet him. As may be imagined, Brown takes it very big, the only fly in the ointment being that he is eventually challenged to a race by a real pilot (Walter Pidgeon), and because of a crush on a girl, Laura Lee, he is unable to back out. One of the funniest sequences in the picture is that in which Brown teaches himself how to fly in an hotel bedroom. If you want to know how to do it, see the picture. Frank McHugh as usual turns in a splendid performance as the drunken proprietor of the hotel. Ona MJunson in the leading romantic role is not only beautiful, but has one of the best voices that have come to the screen. Lawrence Gray makes a very,.'effective hero and a good foil for Brown. The picture is • liberally interspersed wtth catchy songs.