AMUSEMENTS
EVERYBODY’S PICTURES.
TO-NIGHT AND SATURDAY.
“HOLD ’EM JAIL. 1 ”
Bert Wheeler, and Robert Woolsey have taken the grim background of a penitentiary and turned it into a circus in RKO-Radio’s “Hold ’Em Jail,” now at'the Princess Theatre. .
In “Hold ’Em Jail,” Wheeler and Wool'sejr poke ; some good-natured fun at the; “convict-coddling” system in vogue in many prisons.. In the cells to which Bert, and Bob are, assigned, are radios, feather beds, hot and. cold running water and room service for caviare and cocktails.- ‘. •
Prison football teams, which will liojd the sports spotlight this fall, also come in .for some burlesque in this riotous comedy. Rosco Ates-,. Edna May Oliver, Edgar Kennedy and; Betty Grable, a newcomer, to ' the • films, are- featwrea in the. supporting..cajst. Norman l Tajurog directed-. - A good- supporting- programme will also be shown.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1933, Page 3
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137AMUSEMENTS Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1933, Page 3
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