AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 28, 2 May 1938, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

“WHERE’S SALLY” Gene Gerrard promises to bring a big package of laughs to the l)e Luxe Theatre on Tuesday in liis latest Warner Bros. Terringten production, “Where’s Sally.” The picture is full of humorous situations, and is the story of Jimmy Findlay, who, immediately following his marriage to Sally Hickory, finds the wedding reception invaded by a round dozen old flames, brought along by liis well-meaning but fatuous pal, Tony Chirers, while his other intimate. Dick Burgess, gives a tips\ speech that paint.-: the bridegroom’s past a particularly lurid shade of blue. Off on his honeymoon to a bad start, the hapless Jimmy finds his troubles only beginning, but eventually triumphs, emerging unscathed from a welter of. hilarious vicissitudes that would have downed a lesser man. The misunderstandings are hilariously involved and snappy dialogue is the order of the day. The cast includes some well-known names such as Claude. Hulbert, Reginald Purdell, Renee Gadd, Ralph Roberts, Violet Fairbrother, Chili Bouchjer, Atliole Stewart and others. “THE THREW AIAXIAIS” A Circus lias come to. town in “Tiie Three Alaxims” which screens at the De Luxe Theatre Tuesday and Wed-nesday-—a circus teeming with all the thrills of the great sawdust- ring—a. circus under whose big top is enacted one of the most sensational climaxes ever presented on the screen, imagine the scene . . . sixty, seventy, eighty feet up in the air, “The Three Maxims” are in the midst of their daredevil trapeze act, while a breathless audience watch, fascinated, their every move. Little do they know that up there, before their very eyes, one nuui is fighting the greatest battle of his life .... with jealousy. Jealousy against liis partner —his friend, the man whom he believes has stolen from him the love of the girl—the third of the trio. Revenge seems so easy—soon they are to prform the “flying angel” —mistakes often happen—a. ” ks-timecl catch and' his rival woulgf j buried to his death in the ring jr ■/]'. An evil laugh escapes liis dnylf ,Jps as ho swings to meet- the stiver’st -dutching. hands . . . with clenched fists. A

woman’s scream pierces his revengecrazed brain .... he looks up . . . the girl has fainted on the trapeze and her slim body lies helplessly across /- that thin steel bar . . . eighty feet . above the ground . . . Brought to you by three great- stars—“ The Three Maxims” is the ultimate in thrilling romantic entertainment.