REAL CIRCUS LIFE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 137, 11 June 1937, Page 10

REAL CIRCUS LIFE

THRILLS AND EXCITEMENT. All the thrills and excitement and adventure of a real circus are found in "Bengal Tiger” the Warner Bros.’ production screening next Wednesday at the Regent Theatre. Barton MacLane has the leading role, that of a tiger tamer, who early loses a leg when clawed by Satan, and thenceforth conducts his act on a peg leg. I June Travis gives a tine performance as the daughter of the assistant animal trainer, who gave his life to save his boss. She marries the animal trainer because she is grateful to him for helping her out of trouble, then promptly falls in love with his best friend, the aerialist. Warren Hull, in the role of the aerialist, gives a finished performance. Paul Graetz, famous German actor, does excellent work as the assistant trainer who gives his life to save Mac Lane. Others in the cast worthy of special mention are Satan, the tiger; Joseph King, the circus owner; Don Barclay, a clown; Gordon Hart, a hospital superintendent; and Carlyle Moore, jnr., an ambulance driver. SURGICAL DRAMA LOVE LN THE HOSPITAL. Errol Flynn, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, and Sir Cedric Hardwicke have the principal roles in “The Green Light,” the main feature at the Regent Theatre. This picture breaks new ground, and is admirably acted. The prominent and charitable Mrs. Dexter dies on the operating table as the result of a surgical mistake. The operation was begun by the young and brilliant surgeon Newell Paige; it was taken over by Dr. Endicott, a man who at this moment has been caught up in a crisis and momentarily unnerved. Paige is blamed by the hospital and bound to silence by the terms of his medical vow. And then there comes back to America the daughter of the woman who died so unnecessarily, and the two fall in love. This tense and dangerous situation for them both is worked out in a novel and thrilling way.

Lewis Shaw, who was “Young ■ Woodley” on the New Zealand stage some years ago, is in ‘What Should a [Husband Do?” a new comedy, in England. Lawrence Tibbett to Tour. The finalising of arrangements for a concert tour of Australia by Lawrence Tibbett, the world-famous bari- ' tone, is now announced by J. and N. Tait. This brilliant artist will make his first appearance in Australia at the Town Hll. Sydney, on April 23. 1938. The London Daily Mail recently published this item regarding Tibbett. who is one of the stars of the Coronation season of Grand Opera at Covent Garden, London: “Tibbett, who is the highest-paid singer in the world, will be making his first appearance in this country. He is singing at the Queen's Hall, and also starring in Eugene Goossen's opera, “Don Juan,” the only English opera to be done at Covent Garden this season. English audiences have been eagerly awaiting the advent of Tibbett, whose voice >s known to them by his remarkably fine records.”