PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 107, 7 May 1936, Page 12

PLAZA THEATRE

“EAST OF JAVA.’’ One of the most thrilling and tense of all jungle productions is Universal’s “East of Java,” starring Charles Bickford, which screens to-day at the Plaza Theatre. Bickford, cast as an American gangster fleeing from East Africa with “G” men on his trail, champions seven tjwering human beings, including a beautiful women, against seven lions, when a tramp schooner is wrecked on the reefs of a jungle isle a hundred miles from the nearest civilisation. This is the film in which Bickford was attacked by ft crazed lion and nearly died of his wounds’. In the cast are Elizabeth Young, Frank Albertjgon, Leslie Fenton, Clarence Muse, and many other noted players of stage and screen. The story opens with Bickford fleeting the East African port of Simba Sao in the tramp schooner Sei Dragon, Leslie Fenton, master. The ship is shipping, beside human cargo, a consignment of lions and other jungle beasts, to America. A tropical

hurricane sweeps the ship on to reefs, humans and beasts escape to the inland, and the fight for the survival of the fittest starts. “Paddy O’Day.” With a twinkle in her eye and asaucy Irish brogue in her song, little Jane Withers heads a stellar cast of funmakers in her joyous Fox picture, “Paddy OlDay,” the new attraction at the Plaza Theatre on Saturday. The picture, which follows the fascinating adventures of a motherless little girl from Erin to the strange city of New York, persents Pinky Tomlin, Rita Cansino, Jane DarwelJ, and George Givot —the Greek ambassador of radio —in the strong supporting cast. Its songs, from the versatile pens of Harry Akst, Sydney Clare, and Edward Eliscu. include “Keep That Twinkle in Your Eye” and “I Like a Balalaika.” Pinky Tomlin, who wrote “The Object of My Affections,” contributes one of his own, “Changing My Ambitions.” and Trov Sander collaborated on the song, “Which is Which?” sung by; I Miss Cansino in the big production 1 I number.