MINERS' THEATRE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9205, 5 April 1938, Page 3

MINERS' THEATRE

TO-NIGHT AND TO-MORROW’S PROGRAMME “Mr Dodd Takes the Air,” wince will be shown to-night and to-mor-row at the Miners’, features a new screen personality as fresh as the voice that thrills the world on the radio and a joyous stpry that’s more tunefully pixolated than the same author’s “Mr Deeds Goes to Town,” What Mr Deeds did with a tuba, Mr Dodd does with a sore throat and a microphone. Frank McHugh, Alice Brady, Gertrude Michael and Jane Wyman help to make this picture the gayest laugh hit every produced and the words and music of the songa were written by the same team which wrote the tunes of “42nd Street” and “Gold Diggers.” On Thursday and Friday radio's greatest singing cowboy. Smith Ballew, becomes Harold Bell Wright’s most thrilling hero in “Western Gold.” Blazing a trial for goldladen stage-coaches thundering through treacherous mountain passes that bristle with the guns of raiding desperadoes—chanting unforgettable cowboy ballads to the tune of whining bullets—bringing you actionteeming entertainment, with all the romance and colour, the sweep and grandeur of the tumultuous times that inspired a great author to write this story.