RECENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 89, 16 April 1938, Page 11

RECENT THEATRE

ROARING TIMBER” AND “EDUCATING FATHER."

With a star-studded cast headed by Jack Holt, Grace Bradley, Raymond Hatton and Ruth Donnelly, "Roaring Timber,” Columbia's spectacular action drama of the big timber country, commences to-day at the Recent Theatre. Holt is cast as a logging boss, the hardest-driving superintendent in the whole north woods, who faces the job of getting out an enormous volume of timber in record time in order to fulfil a contract. Suddenly his boss dies. Holt learns his new employer is the owner’s daughter. She arrives from the East. A society debutante, played by pretty Grace Bradley, she quickly comes under the influence of an unscrupulous company official who is blocking Holt’s efforts. In addition, Holt resents working for a woman. Complications ensue. Holt quits. A strike follows, with rioting, and the girl is compelled to beseech her former superintendent to return to work. Why Holt does this, and how he meets the climax towards which the story sweeps, proves great screen fare. Vivid spectacle highlights the whole; a dam breaks, with thousands of logs rushing to sea; there is a forest fire sequence, with Holt and his workmen dynamiting whole acres to halt the blaze! "Educating Father," the second Fox Aim to feature the ones Family, is on the same programme, with Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane, Dixie Dunbar, Spring Byington, Kenneth Howell, June Carlson, George Ernest, Florence Roberts and William Mahan in the leading roles. Another exceptional stage booking has been secured for to-night, Monday and Tuesday in Jack Carter, the yodelling, hill-billy cowboy, who is now playing New Zealand after a record-breaking Australian tour. As a yodeller expert, we have not heard his equal in New Zealand, ahd he is an exponent of stockwhip manipulation as well.