AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT, WEDNESDAY ONLY

“Fast Company” at the Princess Theatre to-night only. It is real amusement of the highest order, with comedy of the best rib-tickling kind. Jack Oakie is the main reason for the laughter. He is a very clever comedian.

The plot is based upon a. story of bnsehall players written by a great Aimericain h'umorist, Ring Lardner. The hero, played by Jack Oakie, is a boastful but lovable slangster who wise-cracks and home-run-hits his way to the foreground, helping his team, the Yankees, to win the League pennant. He falls into the fast company of smart city-bred folks, including a show-girl and some craifty gamblers, and he almost ruins his own and his team’s chances for victory on the day of the final game of the World’s series when something happens to change the whole aspect of the plot. Oakie is a new type of comedian on the screen, and he will add thousands of admirers to his string with his swaggering “big league’’ comedy capers in this one. Evelyn Brent, as the girl who spurns him hut later warms to his naive charm, does a great job as always. Richard “Sheets” Gallagher, (another young actor who lias risen rapidly in comedy roles, gives a remarkable performance as the manager of Oalde. Gwen Lee adds a full quota of feminine cl f irm, and Sam Hardy as the manager of tue Yankees, is, as ever,. equal to the demand upon his powers as a gifted actor. In a word the thrills, the laughs, the exciting suspense of baseball hie here aplenty and there is an a bands at overflow of clever acting. See it. Also Sound News, Talkartoon and Comedy. Prices:. 3/-, 2/t, plus tax.