PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 108, 8 May 1936, Page 12

PLAZA THEATRE

“EAST OF JAVA.” One of the most thrilling and tense of all jungle productions is Universal’s ‘ 1 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 cowering 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 a crazed lion and nearly died of his wounds. Ju the cast are Elizabeth Young, Erank Albertson, Leslie Fenton, Clarence Muse, and many other noted players of stage ami 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, htimans and beasts escape to the island. and the fight for the survival of the fittest starts. “Paddy O’Day.” With a twinkle in her eye and a saucy Irish brogue in her song, little Jane Withers heads a stellar cast of funmakers in her joyous Fox picture, “Paddy O’Day,” the new al traction at the Plaza Theatre to-morrow. 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 Darwell, 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 JJke a Balalaika.” Pinky Tomlin, who wrote “The Object of Aly Affections,” contributes one of his own, il Changing My Ambitions, ” and Troy Sander collaborated on the song, “Which is Which?” sung by Miss .Cansino in the big production number There will be a special children’s session.