AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 265, 29 November 1939, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

William Bovd, George Hayes and Russell Hayden, cast as the familiar “Hopalong! Cassidy” “Windy Mallidny” and "Lucky Jenkins,” respectively, head the cast of Param.ount’s “The Frontiersmen,” brand-new “Cassidy” thriller, from the pen of Clarence E ; Mulford. AVhen it screens Thursday and Friday at the Regent Theatre, “The ** Frontiersmen” will show; the struggle of “Hopalong” and his fellow-ranchers to: keep the kids of the cattle country on the strait-and-narrow hv preventing a crooked mayor from using the school as a shield for his cattle-rustling activities. Romance enters the situation, and proceeds to cause a, little war of its own when the teacher hired by “Hopny” to clean up the school turns out to he the most beautiful girl over to arrive in the cattle could ry. Lovely Evelyn Venable is cast in this role. "TOM, SAAVYER, DETECTIVE” Some of .A 1/ark Twain’s most lovable characters—‘‘Tom Sawyer,” “‘Htnkle-ben-y Finn,” “Jeff Rutledge,” “Aunt Sally,* “Uncle Silas,” “Sheriff Slocum” and a, dozen, others—Jive again on the screen in the new Paramount coined y-dr a nm, “Tom Sawyer, Detective,” which screens Thursday and Friday at the Regent. Theatre. Based on the immortal 'Twain Novel, “Tom Sawyer, Detective,” dleals with, the effects of “Tom” and “Thick” to save “UncleSilas” from being hanged for a murder he did. not commit and their singlehanded round-up. of two Mississippi River sharpers. Two of Paramount’s hoy actors, Billy Cook and Donald O’Connor. are east as “Tout” ami “Hucic,” respectively, while some of the famous grown-up characters of the story are played by Phillip Warren, Janet Waldo-, Elisa/.eth Risdon, and Porter Hall.