“MAISIE” IN THE JUNGLE

Evening Star, Issue 23687, 21 September 1940, Page 7

“MAISIE” IN THE JUNGLE

ANN SOTHERN RETURNS Maisie as back on the screen again—this time in the jungles of Africa. With Ami Sothern in the title role, ‘ Congo Maisie,’ which is the leading feature on the new programme at the St. James, makes the show girl as lovable, as amusing, and as sure-fire for entertainment as her adventures in the Wild West. It gives her another dramatically adventurous story. Sho finds herself in plenty of predicaments. She is stranded, subdues a baud of savages, wins her man, and tho audience, too, by her acting. Continuing the second role in tho adventures of the wisecracking show girl, the actress wears her Maisie finery, complete with imitation jewels, parasol, and battered suitcase. Her team mate in the jungle drama is John Carroll, soldier of fortune, who jumps from world-wide adventures into the role of Hollywood loading man, as tho renegade Dr Michael Shane.

Placed in the African jungles, ‘ Congo Maisio ’ combines adventure, thrills, and comedy with the problems of scientists battling the superstitious of the natives and brings into vivid relief a cross-section of the lives of four every-day people. Outstanding among the problems of the jungle is the straightforwardness and honesty of the tawdry show girl, Maisie, who through her own integrity brings happiness to the scientist and his bride. Regardless of locale, Maisie is Maisie. Her quick thinking is as sharp in 'the Congo as it is at 42nd Street and Broadway. The same tricks that held audiences in her show girl days hold the warring natives spellbound. Set to the modern 1940 standards, it is a story of a girl whose principles ami ideals are ns sturdy and permanent as time itself. Supporting is ‘ Dangerous Fingers.’ a mystery drama, in which the leading parts are capably taken by James Stephenson and Betty Lynne.