THRILLING ROMANCE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 530, 13 May 1933, Page 2

THRILLING ROMANCE

"UNDER MONTANA SKIES," A MUSICAL, COMEDY DRAMA. excellent cast. a musical comedy-drama ,|s the/ well-earned description Celehrity has given "Under Montana Skies," their attraction showing on Monday at-the Grand Theatre, with Kenneth Harlan, Dorothy Gulliver, Slim Summer ville and some other excellent troupers in the east.

a small Western town of to-day is the locale of the plot concocted by James k. Aubrey, and a gang of cowhoys and a musical comedy troupe, consisting mainly of pretty song-and-dance girls, are what keep the plot lively. a wide assortment of de--lightful' s.ongs is the work of Violin- . sky and Harry Tobias. Clay Oonning, played engagingly by Kenneth Harlan and -his cowboys, are seeking amusement and select r,ed Rock, because a musical show Is advertised to play there. But, ala.s, the hoys find the whole troupe, including a chorus of pretty girls, in the lock-up. Their manager has vamoosed with the cash and they are in gaol until their hoard hill is paid. so the boys, headed hy Clay, raise part of the funds, and Blondie, the vamp of the company, so alluringly played hy Nita' Marton, persuades Abner, owner of the hotel and the theatre, to accept this much and let them out so they can give a show, pay their debts and move on. i Abner lets them out of gaol, hut he wants more money before he'll let them use th'e theatre. Clay then tries a little persuasion with Abner's J wife, who thinks the handsome cow- j boy has fallen desperately in love with her. She is so flattered that jjl she falls on his neck and gets him in j

had with Mary, the pretty ieadmg ] lady to whom he has spoken words of j love. She thinks he doesn't mean it, ; and so she joins the rest of the troupe ! in a walk-out instituted by Blondie, i wh'o isn't bothered much about playing the rules of the game. But the cowboys bring them back | and that night, at the point of the sheriff's igun, the girls have to go on and strut their stuff While* the girls are singing and dancing there are some bad boys at the box-office with guns. They tie up the cashier and .make off with the receipts, and now things are in a fine mess for the l stranded troupe. Clay, however, goes a-hunting for the robber and comes home with a very satisfactory ending to a story that has n0 dull moments, thanks to the superb direction of Richard Thorpe The rca Photophone recordiug is of its usual standard of excellence. Dorothy Gulliver proves herself a song-and-dance girl, and Slim Summerville contributes some of his well-known humour.