AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 259, 15 November 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“JUST AROUND THE CORNER”

“Just Around the Corner,” which screens at the Regent Theatre to-night Thursday and Friday and stars Shirley Temple, Charles Farrell, Joan Davis, Bert Lahr, and Bill Robinson, is a picture full of sunshine, fun, joyousness and good cheer with a prankish Shirley, making.you laugh every time you wink an eye. When riches ily out of the window she faces the great hig world in a whirlwind of song, romance and joy. The story has a plot, which is based on a small girl (Shirley Temple) mistaking her playmate “Uncle Sam” —a tall, lanky chin-whiskered old hanker—for the Uncle Sam of the United States of America. Her father has, just lost his job and fallen upon hard times, due, he says, to “what is happening t.« Uncle Sam these clays,” so his young daughter feels it her duty Lo try to help the old gentlemen if she can. So she conspired with Bert Lahr, Joan Davis and Bill Robinson to put on n hig benefit show in tho basement of the apartment, house—and what follows provides a thrilling and completely satisfactory climax for everyone eoneernetll, “YOUTH TAKES A FLING” Hailed as the “surprise” picture of the year, and starring Andrea Leeds and Joel McCrea in a story which reveals the poignant heartaercs which conflicting ambitions may bring to reckless young love, Universal’s new dramatic hit, “Youth Takes a Fling,” starts its local run to-night at the Regent Theatre. Dramatic in theme, yet highlighted by moments of wistful romance and gay comedy, the picture is considered a distinct triumph for Director Archie Mayo. Before a throng of critics at its Hollywood preview, the Joe Pasternak production won recognition for introducing an entirely new technique in screen story-telling. As tin* young Kansas farm boy who lias dreamed for years of going to sea, and. comes to New York seeking work on a boat, Joel McCrea lias his most impressive role since “Wells l'argo.” Miss Leeds, in her portrayal of the romantic, girl who sells wedding gowns and lives only for the day she herself will he a bride, is called on for the most versatile performance of her career. Top comedy roles are carried by Frank Jcnks, remembered for his fine work as the singing taxi driver in “100 Men and n Girl”, and Dorothea Kent, Andrea’s room-majto in the story.