AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 218, 9 August 1939, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“DAREDEVIL DRIVERS” “The Dare Devil Drivers,” the film story of r.n intense rivalry between two bus companies, will be screened oil Thursday -and Friday at the Regent Theatre. Once again Beverly Roberts has the part of a business girl. She is manager of one of the warring concerns. •She did such a part splendidly in “■God’s Country and the Woman,” in which last year she had the role of manager of a lumber camp in the Northwest woods. In “Daredevil Drivers.” Dick Purcell is her leading man. He is an automobile race driver whose- ear gets smashed up while he is on his way from one race track to another. It is one of Reverly’s buses that ruins his machine. He goes to her office, prepared for a battle Imt is entirely disarmed when lie finds that his enemy is a girl. Investigating the accident, he finds out that she is being double-crossed by her own drivers who are secretly in the employ of the rival concern. He throws his lot in with hers, helps to keep her out of bankruptcy, and together they start the company over again on a successful basis. Romance enters, of course, and wedding helis ring out. Thrilling automobile races are an exciting feature of the story, and the entire movie is fast-paced, with many breath-taking moments that wi’i he enjoyed by one and all. “SAYING YOUR LADY” Hillbilly hilarity is the dominant note of “Swing Your Lady,” a gay speedy comedy from the Warner Dros. studios, which screens Thursday and Friday at the Regent Theatre. It’s novel, tuneful, picturesque—and altogether a groat deal of fun! The story has to do with a champion wrestler and his entourage who get .stranded in a hill hamlet. The. wj ostler, to get them out, has to take < n a niUtelr'witli a local “ground-scuf-fier,” and this battle is said to be one of the funniest things thrown on a. scu-on this season, screen this season. It’s more or less on the level, too, because the wrestling champ is none other than Nat Pendleton, the actor who at one time held the Olympic heavyweight title, and the hillbilly is Dan’) Boone Savage, the picturesque bewhiskered strong man well known

in the current grunt and groan racket. Humfrey Bogart plays Pendleton’s. manager, Frank McHugh is hL traim jlp , Penny Singleton is Bogart's heart \ interest, Louise Fazenda is a lady blacksmith, and the- famed vaudeville team oil' the Weaver;Brothers- and EI--viry are hillbillies.