OPERA HOUSE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 288, 6 December 1939, Page 9

OPERA HOUSE

"CLIMBING HIGH” AND "CHASING DANGER” I I Screening to-day at the Opera House, "Climbing High” is a fastmoving romantic farce, starring Jessie Matthews, with Michael Redgrave. “Climbing High,” which was made for laughter purposes only, was directed by Carol Reed, and the impressive cast contains many well-known names. The main theme of the picture is the romance between Jessie Matthews as a girl earning her own living and Michael Redgrave as a wealthy young man about town, who finds himself in the toils of a designing society girl and her equally designing mother. True love, of course, triumphs in the end and the man marries the girl who works for her living rather than the girl who lives only for her selfish ends. But before this happens there are hilarious complications and misunderstandings. Action, excitement, laughs, romance, intrigue and thrills are being served up in generous portions in “Chasing Danger,” 20th CenturyFox’s new film, which is the associate feature. Preston Foster, Lynn Bari and Wally Vernon head the cast of this grand tale of two camera daredevils on the loose in the midst of an Arabian revolt. Henry Wilcoxon, Joan Woodbury and Harold Huber are included in the film, which was directed by Ricardo Cortez. "Ask a Policeman” The well-known British comedian, Will Hay, ably hindered by Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt, has blundered through many public services. In the G.B.D. attraction, "Ask a Policeman,” which opens on Friday at the Opera House, the three do their best to ruin the local rural constabulary, and here they make a hilarious digression into what they imagine to be the realm of the supernatural. As members of the police force in a village that has had no crime for ten years five weeks and four days, they are faced with the necessity to justify their by no means miserable existence.