AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 181, 12 May 1939, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“PROFESSOR BEWARE" Full ol' Harold Lloyd situations and, Lloyd gags in Para mount’s now comedy y “Professor Beware” which -Lloyd is - teamed' witli young ‘tfind,’- tl?l»*liisvWetfjb. in ftititit r olpgtst who -Joses;.l)Ss dob witii' V nihsthi etim after becoming. mixed up ywtkraaiiL $i aspiring young actress, and then set|j|fj out on a cross-country jaunt to a boat in New York that will carry - him to Egypt, and an -archaeological' - job. His travelling experiences are uproariously funny. The hilarious coast to coast trips without any money and the surprise ending, when Lloyd loads a mob on an assault on a yacht are tops in Lloydian comedy. “THE DEVIL’S SADDLE! LEGION” Wild days in the old IndiahtT’erri-torj-j which are later to become Oklahoma, are brought vividly ter life in “The Devil’s Sadie Legion,” Dick Foran’s newest starring western, for Warner Bros., which opens Saturday at the Regent Theatre. The tall, handsome Singing Cowboy is at his very best in this tale of lawless country and lawless men. And,—happily—there are three ballads, suited exactly to the red-headed. - star’s pleasing baritone voice. They arc by LSI. EL. Jeromeand Jack Scholl, who wrote liis most recent hit, “My Little Buckaroo.” A miscreant band of crooks, headed by George Chesebro and Raphael Bennett, are building a dam, with pri- ' son laboiur, when Dick rides into the scene 'from Texas. The object of the dam is to divert the course of the Red River, and thus steal, away a lot -ef land! that- really belongs to Texas. A man has been murdered recently, and the crooks trump up charges against Dick in connection with this crime. He is given a 10-year sentence, working by day and confined in prison by night. In gaol lie learns that his own father lias been murdered" by followers of Oliesebro and Bennett, and he swears vengeance. Dicjk and five others manage to escape,' and band themselves together with a vow to find the murderers and expose the villainy-of those "connected with the river deal. They become known as “The Devil’s Saddle Legion” because of tlieir ferocity. After many narrow escapes and much hard fighting, the band cleans up all the crooks and killers and establish a reign of; order in the region. - ?- L;. •