AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 325, 5 January 1937, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

Plaza Theatre. Cines'ound's new production, “Orphan of the Wilderness,” which will be shown at the Plaza Theatre, Stratford, to-night, is a thrilling and delightful refreshing romance of Australia’s great outdoors. Life is (pictured in the tent city of a touring circus. There is all the circus atmosphere. In the centre of the ring two boxers flight a desperate battle. One, seven or eight feet high, a grotesque, clumsy figure, lashes out with gloved hands and sends an agile little man reeling into ropes. There is a cry from several hundred throats as “Chut,” the world-famous boxing kangaroo, with a smart kick from his powerful hind legs, tries to tear his hated master, the villainous “Shorty McGee,” into pieces. Brian Abbot, who takes the leading male roie, is seen as a leering villain in the circus life. With him is the lovely young film star Gwen Munro, who shines at bareback riding. Petite Sylvia Kellaway, who plays the role of “Nell” in the film, is also prominent as a circus star. Adapted for the screen, from Dorothy Cotierell’s unique story of Australia. “Orphan of the Wilderness” provides delightful and thrilling entertainment.

King’s Theatre. Gentle as a lamib with those he loves, savage as a tiger in battle. Buck, the screen’s most sensational new canine star, comes back to the screen in the stirring Fox adaption of James Oliver Cur wood’s story “The Country Beyond,” which will screen at the King’s Theatre, Strata ford, to-night. Featured with a cast ■which includes such Hollywood stars as Rochelle Hudson, Paul Kelly and Robert Kent,, Buck aids the cause of justice as he tracks a killer through the frozen north, and plays cupid as he brings a “mountie” and his girl together. The snowbound Canadian* wilderness is the setting of this drama. Kent and Kelly, red-coated mounted policemen, come to get Alan Hale for the murder ,of a man. Hale and his daughter, Rochelle Hudson, elude the officers, so that Halle ■will have an opportunity to run down the actual killer, Alan Dinehart. Kelly follows Hale, while Kent pursues and catches Miss Hudson, fleeing- with Buck. Aided by the dog they fight the pitiless elements, while they are drawn together by love.