ACADEMY AND MINERS’ THEATRE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9362, 17 April 1939, Page 2

ACADEMY AND MINERS’ THEATRE

CURRENT PROGRAMMES When Cinesound Productions de--1 cided to made a comedy, Producer--1 Director Ken G. Hall remembered George Wallace’s Chaplin-like gift of 1 miming, and his ability to combine 1 pathos and laughter, “Let George Do ■ It,” he suggested. So George Wallace, Australia’s greatest comedian, who will be remembered for his work in “His Royal Highness,” created “Joe Blake,” a subtle, yet uproariously funny characterisation, in this new Cinesound production, which is to be shown at the Academy Theatre to-night and to-morrow and Wednesday. Wallace’s legion of admirers, who always enjoy the comedian’s smart tap-dancing, will be particularly interested when they see his, famous fall in “Let George Do It.” The effect is George, with his feet J in the air, gaily sliding on his ear in I the middle of a dance routine. In the following sequences, there w-as nothing George couldn’t do, from “giving a lady the bird,” jumping in a swimming pool, trying to commit suicide by drinking a “poison cocktail,” and risking his life in a thrilling speedboat chase. A return screening of that stupendous drama, “The Lives of a Bengal Dancer,” will be given at the Miners’ Theatre on Wednesday. The story I ells of three reckless devil-may-care members of the Bengal Lancers, Prancliot Tone, Gary Cooper and Hichard Cromwell, who as friendly enemies, believe in that saying, “all for one and one for all. The stqry depicts the Lancers' ride into action and perhaps death through the weakness of one of their fellow men and j their emerging victorious by sheer courage and the strange bond of friendship that binds these men together. i