AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 97, 14 October 1938, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“MERRY-GO-ROUND OF 1938”

“Merry-Go-Round of .1938,” which screens Saturday and Monday at the lie Luxe Theatre is a Juugh-riot, a steam roller of hilarity, a deluge of delicious, delightful and grouch-de-stroying comedy. Go to see this' latest product,of Hollywood and learn just how notch yon can laugh without getting a stitch in the side. "If your ribs hold out until the final, furious; fade-out, you are a hopeless ease and should be examined by a squad of psychiatrists. Round and weighty Billy House, tall and thin .Mischa Auer, short and shv Jimmie Sava and 1 raucous Bert La hr are teamed in what is one of the funniest foilrsomq of thb season. Four madder, merrier comedian's were never thrown together in one picture.. .The result is devastating. Of a farce comedy plot, plenty of good music, hordes of comedy gags,

gangs of pretty girls, songs by Jimmie McHugh, and Harold Adamnson, and the screen play by Dorian' Ofvos and Monte Brice, the director, Irving; Cummings has woven a langh-foreing production that, ranks as the best of the screen’s mad and merry musicals.

Ninoteen-thirty-eight find's four broken down . and" poverty stricken comedians faced wit-1} the task of straightening out the love affairs of their adopted daughter. iShe is in love with a. young man, heir to the millions of an eccentric aunt. The aunt objects to the young man’s' marriage to any girl with a theatrical background. Tin? boys .determine to set her straight on that little matter.

Dressed as, and protending to he,, a titled Englishwoman, aunt of the girl, Billy House gets into the confidence oj the Aunt.. Mi sell a Auer is introduced into her household under the

guise of a Swnmi, with Jimmie Savo, world-famous pantomimist, as his assistant. Swami Auer’s powers summon Bert Lain*, who pretends to be tlio long-lost sweetheart- of the Aunt—and then the fun becomes fast and furious, leading to laugh-jammed situations galore. “THE SHADOW” Thrilling death leaps by daring trapeze artists, savage animals, maddened to a frenzy, laughing clowns and cold murder before thousands of witnesses, are features seen in Columbia’s “The Shadow,” thrilling circus drama, which screens Saturday and Monday at the De Luxe Theatre Charles Quigley and liita Hayworth are featured in the .film with Mare Lawrence, Arthur Loft, . Mar j dries Main and many more appearing in support, Charles C. Coleman directed 1 .