AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 94, 7 October 1938, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

•'WAY OUT WEST” When Laurel and Hardy sing a duet with variations, preceded by a dance ol the guy SMl's vintage, in tho Hal Uoarli-M.-C-AI. feat tiro-length comedy, “Way Out West,,” it represents the most, hilariously funny wand brilliant entertainment this stellar team of comic,s have presented during tho more than ten years they have been together on the screen. Sad-I'aced Stan and pompous-jolly Ollie arc a, riot of Inn Irma the time they miter the picture across a doser stream with their trick donkey until their fade-out crossing lla; stream on t( 11 1 e way back. It’s their.'first western $ mid the boys whoop it up l|S a pair ol •‘teaderbeel” prospectors trying to do a good deed in delivering a gold mine deed, only to e,nd up in a series of misdeeds.

“Way Out West” which screens at. the He Luxe Theatre. Saturday lam I ice a given ail excellent physical mounting ol llm colour amt glamour of the wild and woolly west, and the characterisations hy Sharon Lynne, James Hilda,Yson, Mosina Lawrence, the Avalon Hour, and Stanley fields me outstanding.

“CHAR LI H. CIIAN ON mtOADWA V” Called into action on. New A ork’s (dent, U Inle Way, t Imrlie v him mvaoes tile night dulls to seek the Kin'i r who./ - ooulile murder easts a shadow m terror over Alanlml tail’s gnyfsl spots in Ihe newest, of Ids .nA'elil.ietn Ceil lory- Hon screen ndveii'"uiies, •‘Charlie t han On Hroadwny,” Saturday at the He Luxe i lieu I re. It’s “candid-camera night” in a niidtnwn eiiharel, and as I lie lliishliglil s gf .u hundred yin husnisi ie “mi ii lea in' ’ lanff hoom. death strikes, then strikes ujfuin; hringiug Chan, iresli Irom Ids sleiilhiug. irmmplis in distu 11 1, hinds, to eon 1 1 on t. the most hall ling advent ni-e of Ids career. W ill tier Olaml is leal lin'd in his Ia m i !in r 011 1 si a ndi ng dia rail m i :*u I ion of the (loinese detective, and pi'umin- ;■ nI rele.'i in I lie east are played by Iveye I,ukc, as Chan’s “number one sou.” J. I'M ward Itromberg, .Joan Mursli, Louise Henry, .loan Wooi.lhur.V, Ooiuild Woods, Omiglas I'oW'leN, and Harold -tinner. 'I lio hlundm Hi'.' iu: io-dy oi ( ban's “number one son” i s Hie opening wedge of c han’s mil ranee into a myx|i rv eoneei llillg a night-club singer’s secret, diary, supposed In contain sensational inlormii 1 ion that, oin-o publislied, will ‘ 'blow Ibo lid ell t lie town.” Itefere tile diiir'y is brougbl to liglit, however, Ihe singer is killed in Drondway’s gayest night spot, a murder, soon lollou e,| by a second, that sei\eM |,, hit II le I lie poliee even more. 11l I lie at leiii pi to imitate the wily sleiilhiug ol his fa I her. lu'e Chau manages to place In nisei I in a highly suspicious position, Irom which he Inis to he ignoiii i n lo.usly ex Inca led hy Ihe Oriental <lelecl iV e. A i, 111 1 (it ia le ol conflicting clues becloud I lie entire case. Hrout I lie eonjiisien of eireiimsl unies ('ban manages in liis quint, philosophical lasliH ,n, Id piece logelber mi amazing solution that is Ibrillingly proved in a surprising climax.