AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 266, 1 December 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“YOUNG DR. KILDARE”

Lew Ayres’ sensational return to, the screen shotligliT continues.- With' Lion.- | . ' el Barrymore, lie is featured in “Young J)'r. Kihllare,” which opens ' Saturday at the Regent Theatre. Lynne Carver has the feminine lead. Ayres’ performances in “Holiday” and “Rich Man, Poor Girl” resulted virtually in demand performances by this young veteran whose unforgettable work in “All Quiet on the Western Front” zoomed him to stardom tenyears ago. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer answered the demand by placing him under contract and casting him immediately as Kildare. Barrymore plays the grizzled (Iliagiiostfciaii, Dr. Gillespie, who is at once the nemesis and mentor of the amazing young Kildare. “Young Dr. Kildare” is the story of a young medical student who sacrifices- love and a place of comparative security besides his- country doctor father to achieve something great for humanity. As an in tonic in the general hospital of a big city, his independent thinking gets him fired from the staff, but wins him the admiration of Gillespie, the great diagnostician. Kildare returns homo to find that, through Gillespie, love and a career are not incompatible. “OUTLAWS OF THE DBA HUM” Tall, two-fi.stedi Charles Starrett, Columbia’s virile cowboy star, rides aeross the screen of the Begent Theatre Saturday and .Monday in “Outlaws of the Prairie,” his latest thrill-jammed starring picture. A story of the old west when notorious outlaws warr«d againsTlaw and order, “Outlaws ol the Prairie” strikes a new note, in screen entertainment of this type. Music plays an important part in the telling of the story and in the building of the dramatic climax. Starrett portrays a grim, fast-shooting, hard-riding .Banger, who*, as a boy, saw Ins father killed and -was himself maimed by a; bloodthirsty renegade. For years he has carried! the villain’s initialed bowio knife as a reminder to seek out the mail and gain revenge. Four new song .'hits, ballads typical of _ the old West, increasingly popular to-day, are introduced. They are sung in the picture by the Sons of the. Pioneers, a musical quintet) composed entirely ol real cow hoys. The songs are “Blue Prairie,” “Songs of the Bandit,” “Open Range Ahead,” and “Mly Saddle. Pal and 1.”