AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 160, 20 March 1939, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“BRINGING UP BABY” “Bringing Up Rally” which screens at.the D'e Luxe Theatre Tuesday and Wednesday, is fast-paced modern coinedy romance with Katharine .Hepburn, playing mad pranks as an heiress animated with mischief, and Cary Grant is an equally bizarre but eon-, blasting role as the victim of her torments. Miss -Hepbiu-n portrays an impetuous society girl who always gets what she wants, and yvarnting Cary Grant*, a staid and dignified professor of zoology, she goes after him and does her best to break up his impending man iage to his secretary. Grant, however, has only one interest in life—the completion of the skeleton of a giant dinosaur at his museum. Miss Hepburn, with the aid of a tame, leopard, entices him from liis work, and involves hint in a flood of complications in which their exploits, the leopaid’s escape and pursuit over the •Connecticut countryside, a million-dollar bequest, a big game hunter, Mjiss Hepburn’s domineering aunt, a* boastful Irishman and a suspicions psychiatrist, are all tangled together in one riotous piece of screen fare. * Grant’s matrimonial plans and his peace of mind are lost in the shuffle, while Hepburn, with the best of intentions, manages to get into- trouble with her dynamic prosecution of her romantic campaign. The results are as disastrous as they are entertaining. Miss Hepburn, who heretofore hits scored chiefly in strong d'ra m a ticroles, as in the recent “Stage Door,” is- sai<| to be sensational as a madcap, comedienne in the new offering. She is ably matehod'byi Grant-, whose work in “Topper” and “The Awful truth” has sent him soaring to top rank among screen funsters. “CITY STREETS” Flditli' Fellows and Leo Carrillo, costars of “Little Miss Roughneck,” are gloriously reunited in “City Streets,” Columbia comedy drama which scre.-ns Tuesday and Wednes-

day at the De Luxe Theatre. Carrillo scores as usual with his amusing dialect, portraying a neighbourhood Italian grocer. Edith is a distinct surprise. Heretofore usually seen as a. spoiled brat, she now plays a sympathetic role, a crippel waif who is adopted by the good-natured Italian. The story centres on the great sacrifice Carrillo makes to enable Edith to walk and play with other youngsters. Learning that a famous specialist is in the city, he sells his store to. meet the cost' of‘an operation which produces no immediate benefit. Carrillo has stripped himself of his means of support and the welfare authorities take the girl away from him. All the love, sympathy and human impulses .of himself and neighbourhood friends prove useless when pitted against the law, but the tide turns in a series of tense, fast-moving situations.