AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 219, 11 August 1939, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“RASCALSU^gs 4»‘v ' ’ v i» “Rascals”, which screens at Regent Theatre on Saturday and features Jane Withers, Rochelle Hudson, Rob-t ert Wilcox, and Borah Mineviteh’s Mouth-organ Band. Jam* hits tile open road and turns it: into Happiness d; Highway... ..She’s gone gypsy in a big way....and there’s mischief afoot and fun ahead 1 ! There's romance too, t and rhythm ‘round the campfire.... > end for extra-laughs, there's Boralt Mmevitch and his famous harmonica, l hand. Jane cavorts through the pic- £ tore with the skill of a seasoned 8 • trouper and wiliy-Jgave her movie“fans” hysterical with mirth while'" Robert Wilcox and Rochelle Hudson have the romantic roles. in a ‘musical western” picture filled with surprises the leading player, Baker, essaying the role of Scrap Gordon, a. hnppy-go-luck cowboy and singer, is the victim of mistaken identity from the IVf-gnihiiigp‘df 2 —' t-Jae picture until the end.* ’Witness of a double Baker is placed squarely in the centre" of tho plot. He could have shift and killed one or both men. How the plot is finally worked out by clever detectives forms the basis for an unusually, interesting feature picture. "Every foot of “The dinging Outlaw” carries the tang of the West. The picture starts with a riding and shooting contest among cowboys then the double murder... . love interest supplied by Baker and Miss Barclay .... pursuit by determined officers ....and comedy supplied by Fuzzy Knight. Above all, the picture has the singing and playing of Baker, destined to become one of the screen's foremost crooning cowboys. "The Singing Cowboy is topnoteii entertainment for lovers- of fine western pictures. The photographic shots, made by cameraman Nevada Miller iti the high Sierra Nevada mountains south and west of Sonora, Calil’., are peerless. It will please every type of audience! “ROSALIE” MOST LAVISH MUSICAL EVER SCREENED Thrijlingly conceived Nelson Eddy-Eh-anor Rowell musical surpasses anything ever attempted before; gargantuan ensembles offer eye-staggering spectacle. Cole Porter songs a delight to li'-ar. Flailed as “big,” it is big, this “Rosalie”, which screenp at the Regent Theatre next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Nelson Eddy and Eleanor Powell are teamed in this tuneful melange, which varies in locale between a lootball game, a military college, a transatlantic airplane, and ihe cotouriuL mythical kingdom of “Romanza”. Tho pairing of Eddy and Miss Rowel! is a, briliiant feat. Not only do they dance and sing in the manner of stars of their magnitude, hut as lovers they are decidedly in the top rank among lomantie teams.