AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 18, 1 April 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“I MET HIM IN PARIS” The special brand of humour that Claudette Colbert has made her own sparkles throughout Paramount’s ‘T Met Him in Paris,” brilliant eomodyromance which screens at the Do Luxe Theatre on Saturday and Monday. With two leading men, M'elvyn Douglas and Robert Young, righting to win Miss Colbert’s affections, *T Mt't Him in Paris” offers a. double guarantee of sparkling situations and bright dialogue to the legion of Colbert fans who thrilled to her earlier come.dy hits, ‘‘it , Happened One Night” and ‘‘The Gilded Inly.” in “I Met Him in Paris,” Miss Colbert, a young American girl in Paris on her vacation, is the object ot : the affections of both Douglas and Young, who portray, respectively, a playwright and a novelist. Jlutli men aie masters of the gentle art of the “gag”_but discover that the innocent little ‘‘gal from back home” is just a shade too. fast on the comeback for them. The action oft the film is at whirlwind pace; the trio of stars is whirled from Paris to> Switzerland and then back again to Paris. But no matter where they are, both men find the time—and the incli.ua turn to keep right on the trail of the girl. In a flurry of some of the most breath-tak-ing winter sports scenes ever brought to the screen, both .ry to sweep Miss Colbert off her feet, but they manage only to confuse her- so much that she can’t decide which one of them she Joves. She flees back to Paris, resolves to forget them both, but the persistent young swains pursue he. hack tof Paris, and force a showdown. ‘ ‘CHEROKEE! STB IP’ ’ The brave days of old when America. was throwing open free homestead lands to pioneers willing to face for them and develop them, live again in “The Cherokee Strip, ’ the Warner Bros, melodrama starring Dick Foran, which opens at the Do Luxe Theatre Saturday. The choicest land went to those who claimed first, travelling by cow ponies, backboards, covered waggons, or on foot. All this is depicted with historic accuracy. No writers’ fancies were needed m plotting “The Cherokee. Strip.” which Warner Bros, has made oil a v a.st scale.

There are two heroines. Jane Bryan and Helen Valkis, and a number of other noted players, including .ltd Cobb, Milton Kill bee, David Carlyle and Gordon Hart.