UNUSUAL STORY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 27 November 1936, Page 10

UNUSUAL STORY

"THE MAN M HO COl LD WORK MIRACLES.” The combination of Ji. G. Wells as author and Alexander Korda as producer, which made such a success of "Things to Come” has produced in a much lighter vein. "The Man Who Could Work Miracles." which will start on Saturday next at the Regent. The cast is headed by Roland Young Joan Gardner. Ralph Richardson.’ Ernest Thesiger, Robert. Cochrane and Lady Tree. The story revolves around the unusual and amusing consequences which follows when a humble village shop assistant. Fothertngay, discovers that he possesses the power to work miracles. The Bengal Tiger.” Barton Mac Lane's animal-taming picture, recently completed at the n/'rah 1 ' n rOS -' , First National studios as The Bengal Killer,” will be released under the title "The Bengal Tiger,” it is announced by producers Appearing with Mac Lane, who has the leading role of a trainer of tigers and lions, are Warren Hull and June Travis as the romantic juveniles, Paul Graetz, the noted German actor recently imported by Warner Bros. First National, Joseph King, Dick Purcell Carlyle Moore, jun., and others. "The Bengal Tiger" was directed by Louis King, and it is expected to be a record breaker. * * • . Escape. Jean Arthur. Hollywood’s meteor of the moment, and other members of her film company, narrowly escaped a disastrous drenching when a high pressure hose hurst on their set during a recent, night, location. The hose, under extra pressure to expedite film-’ ing. was being used to settle the dust, around a large set at the Columbia Ranch in which much of lhe action of "Adventure in Manhattan,” co-star-ring Joel McCrea, takes place. Before wardrobe or settings were damaged beyond repair the incipient cloudburst was shut off. hut work was not resumed until the entire company had been thoroughly dried out under lhe lights. j • .Stng ng. dancing, dimples flashing; even when tears are clinging to her lashes. Shirley Temple will next be seen in lhe Twentieth Century-Fox production "Dimple ," said to be the greatest siory Shirley has ever had. and the ouis’.e.mling hit in her parade ot sufcesic .. As a little minstrel, har- , mottishr: v. ttii street singers, playing lever, role in "L'ncle Tom's Cabin" I single-handed, starring in a minstrel 'show and mothering and caring for her irrepressible and incorrigible guardian, Frank Morgan. Shirley shares her love and laughter, tears and thrills, trials and triumphs. In addition to Frank Morgan, the supporting cast includes Robert Kent. Astrid Allwyn, Delma Byron, Helen Westley and Stepin Fetchit. Other Merry M'idows. The J. C. Williamson revival in Australia of "The Merry Widow,” with Gladys Moncrief!: as Sonia, and Frank Leighton as Prince Danilo, recalls to the minds of older theatre-goers the principals in the original presentation in Australia and New Zealand of the Lehar operetta in 1908. The cast included: Carrie Moore as Sonia; Andrew Higginson, Prince Danilo; Victor Gouriet, Baron Popoff; Reginald Roberts, de Jolidon; W. S. Percy. General Novikovich; Florence Young, Natalie; Fred Leslie, Nisch; Arthur Hunter, the waiter at Maxim's; and Claude Bantock, Edmund Sherras, D. B. O’Connor, Ivy Scott, Jessica Deane, Connie Milne, Lybus Caffyn, Mignon Ashton, Gladys Young, George Musgrove. Birdie Gross, L. Raleigh. Nellie Wilson, Gladys Turner. The play was produced by Gerard Coventry, with Gustave Slapoffski as musical director. Some of these artists are in Australia to-day, including Carrie Moore, Andrew Higginson, Victor Gouriet, Reginald Roberts, Nellie Wilson: also Gustav Slapoffski. Ivy Scott is in America; Fred Leslie and W. S. Percy I are in England. W. S. Percy recently I published a charming travel book on I Scot.land.