OPERA HOUSE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 287, 5 December 1939, Page 9

OPERA HOUSE

“CLIMBING HIGH” English comedy at its best is to be found in “Climbing High,” a good effort by Michael Redgrave and Jessie Matthews, which heads the new programme at the Opera House to-day. It is a hilarious story of the adventures of a Canadian girl (Jessie Matthews) studying art in London, of her romance with a very eligible young millionaire (Michael Redgrave), whom she thinks is out of funds and work, and of the chapter ot accidents that follow the employment of both of them by a fashionable advertising photographer. There is also a designing “Lady Cynthia” who tries to hook the eligible bachelor, an escaped lunatic and other ingredients to keep the fun moving. Events rush to a climax when the heroine’s brother arrives from Canada. He has oldfashioned ideas and objects of seeing lightly-draped photographs of his sister adorning magazines and advertising hoardings. Miss Matthews does not dance in this picture, but she sings occasionally and in very unusual circumstances. Twentieth Century-Fox’s adventure film, “Chasing Danger," is the associate feature, with Preston Foster and Lynn Bari featured in the cast including Wally Vernon, Henry Wilcoxon, Joan Woodbury and Harold Huber. Foster and Vernon are seen as a couple of daredevil newsreel cameramen —Foster always ready to roister or fight, make history or love; and Vernon so jittery he thinks a cat’s footsteps mean marching armies. Lynn Bari plays a lovely patriot duped by a dictator to spread revolt in the Sahara. Ricardo Cortez directed “Chasing Danger,” for which Robert Ellis and Helen Logan wrote the screen play-