WAIPAWA REGENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 210, 21 September 1937, Page 4

WAIPAWA REGENT

TWO FEATURES TO-MORROW. Blendiug rich, hoinespun comedy with dramatic human interest in a gripping story of events in the Holmwood Diotion picture colony, RKORadio's "The Farmer in the Dell" brings Fred Stone to the screen at the Regent Theatre, Waipawa, on Wednesday in a made-to-order role which should set him securely on the pinnacle of film fame. Jeau Parker is co-fea-tured. For many years a top-notcher m vaudeville and on the musical comedy stage, Stone recently made his screen debut with Katharine Hepburn in "Alice Adams" and achieved such success that he has been elevated to stardom. In "The Fartner in the Dell," Stone plays an lowa farmer who is "high-pressured" into journeying to Hollywood by his movie-struck wife, who plans to launch their daughter on a sereen career. But an impish Fate reverses these plans, and it is Stone who is, against liis iiiclination, drafted into pictures when he visits a studio in company with his daughter. Beeause of his unspoiled native appeal, Stone is given a featured role in a film, and what looks like a giant salary to the humble lowa farmer. No more thrilling drama of the air has come to the sereen tlian First National 's new picvure, "China Clipper." A tribute to the vision, ingenuity and courage of the aien who battled not only storm and fog, but the tiinidity and prejudice of eapitalistie air lines, "China Clipper" is a brilliant chapter in the pictorial history of daring aviatlon.