AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 168, 12 April 1939, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“ON OUR SELECTION’* “On Our Selection,” Australia’s evergreen laughter favourite, which screens at the Regent Theatre • on. Thursday and Friday, with Bert Bailey, and Fred MacDonald as the. original “Dad” and “Dave”, is reissued in response to enthusiastic public depiand and attracting enormous crowds everywhere it is being screened. Again you’ll sreeam when “Dad’- falls into the river with a cartload of squealing pigs—again you’ll roar when the mad bull smashes up the < appp' ’omei—and when “Dave” starts to make love as only “Dave” can—well, these are but a few of the laughterladen situations in this sensational comedy favourite that has delighted Australian stage and screen audiences for over a. quarter of a century. A NATION IS BUILT” “A Nation is Built”, which screens with “On Our Selection” at the Regent Theatre on Thursday and Friday is an inspiring epic of national achievement. -Captain Hurley- andl his Cinesound unit spent six months in mating “A Nation is Built,” and travelled plover 12,000 miles in New South Wales |||| alone. The scenes of Sydney alone, %«.' and of the myriad subjects of interests ' to a pleasuret-loving nation, .such as the snows of Kosciusko, the sails on Sydney Harbour, the magnetism of thp beaches and the manhood of the life-savers-, the call of the surf and all it offers in sport—all these are shown from suoli unusual camera- angles that one sees Sydney in attire more fascinating than before, very spirit of the people, as welkjijs'the promise of scenes. I -\