AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 222, 18 August 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

' A, J‘‘YELLUW JACK'* I - -Modern- motion picture inagic hajjL | coloured the brighter pages of historjy | •in a new salute to-heroic scientists. 1' • 'l6. is “Yellow Jack,” dedicated to -those five soldiers who risked their lives to • fred ; humanity from the yoke of yellow- fever. spared nothing in making The- authen- y tie story of Major Walter Recjd si, 2 thrilling tribute to the litaii i iblc for lifting the yoke-of Afelfow fev—. er from Cuba in the following the Spanisli-American War. They placed Robert Montgomery in his /r----first dramatic rolevsmc-g dfNight MustFall.” once more assi^iietl.the lovely- f Virginia •'Bruce in the ‘feminine..lead ’4 opposite .him and gave them a support- $ ing of unusual merit. They I present si chapter from scientific his- | . torv which earned its thrills from hu- | man sacrifice, its drama from heroism. r r The carefully chosen- cast includes ! Lewis Stone, playing the historical character of Major Walter Reed, Andy Devine, Henry Hull, Charles Coburn, . } Buddy Fibsen, Henry O’Neill. Janet | •Beecher, William Henry, Alan Curtis ; and Sam Levene. j Robert Montgomery breathes lil’o into the character of Sergeant O’Hara, leader of the little hand of soldiers who offer themselves as human guinea pigs in a last-ditch stand to discover the ; cause of yellow fever. Virginia Bruce -k'cbres as Nurse Blake, while Lewis Stone is completely at home in the • role of Major Reed. The story of “Yellow Jack,” which •Screens at the Regent Theatre on Sat.urdayiSand Monday, concerns a coni«,mission' sent from Washington' to « wipe out the yellow fever which is devastating Cuba.* The small group of scientists finally evolve the theory that a species of mosquito, the- St ego- ~ • liiya.: is responsible for the spread of tiie. disease. To prove their theory they need human guinea pigs. Montgomery persuades four of his coin- - panions to volunteer. 'Their sufferings, etched against the factual background, provide sheer drama, unparalleled in fiction’s pages. “PRIDE 0-F v T£§E WKS'J” One of the boldest and most prevalent crimes of the frontier West, stage coach and mail robbery, forms the background of Paramount’s latest“Hepaloug Cassidy,” action drama, “Pride* of the which opens Saturday at the Regent Theatre. A pair of criminals, whoi pose as respectable citizens of the pioneer town Nik . ? - ; which, the action of the story takes ? place, make their big mistake when they try to pin the blame for the rob- j bery on “Hoppy’s” two sadilleniatos, j “Windy Halliday” and “Lucky Jenkins,” as this brings the Bar 26 toreman into the fray against them. With the help of a daring youngster and a ~ f beautiful girl, “Hopalong” catches the thieves red-handed withjlthe K‘>ld and clears, his friends of suspicion.* j i