“LOVE AND HISSES"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 254, 27 October 1938, Page 3

“LOVE AND HISSES"

SINGING COMEDIENNE As a singing comedienne, gay, vivacious little Simone Simon makes a triumphant debut in the bright and snappy comedy “Love and Hisses,” which is now showing at the Piaza Theatre. Simone, as attractive and as saucy as ever, takes a lighter type of role than she has in the past and sings a number of catchy songs with charm and vitality. Walter Winchell ana Ben Bernie, popular radio stars, cause many merry moments in their friendly fight over the pert Parisiennc who promises to be a new sensation in entertainment. Ben brings Simone over from Paris for his night club and tries to get Walter, America’s “one-man newspaper,” to boost her up in his daHy news session over the radio. His hopes are shattered, however, when Walter, wishing always to get the better of his rival, puts over the air the most adverse criticism of the new “find.” Simone’s rise to fame is quickly stopped, but Ben is not beaten and arranges things so that Walter “discovers" her under another name.

W. C. Fields is discussing the possi bility of playing the title role in “Th Wizard of Oz.”

More Fun Than a Circus. Two hundred schoolboys took pai in a rousing free-for-all light c Universal’s “Little Tough Guy” se where the Dead End” kids start riot in a slum settlement hous< Eager to make good, the boys outdi themselves. Harold Young, one of tl smallest directors in Hollywood, w: punched and pushed around uncen moniously. The youngsters had n ceived their instructions from an a sistant director and, taking Young f< an opponent, “let him have it.” Dan aged property included 27 broke chairs, three smashed picture frame seven shattered windows, and a doc torn from its hinges. The boys e; hibited skinned knuckles and bruise noses and shins, but declared th: “working in pictures is more fun tha a circus.” Sol Lesser is bringing bacK. “Peck Bad Boy” to the screen in a serie of six features. Jackie Coogan orig nally created the character on ’th screen. Lesser would like to borro' Tommy Kelly.