OPERA HOUSE ATTRACTION.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1940, Page 3

OPERA HOUSE ATTRACTION.

WALLACE BEERY TO-MORROW. "Safari," starring Douglas Fairbanks, Madeleine Carroll and Tullio Carminati, will be screened finally at 2 and 8 p.m. to-day at the Opera House, New Plymouth.. For once a new angle is discovered to the Amcrican Civil War in "The Man from Cakota," which will commence at 2 and 8 p.m. to-morrow, without the customary North v. South and family-divided-against-itsclf theme. Instead, the leading characters are two Yankee prisoners of war who eScape the Confederate prison camp at Bellc Island, and a Russian girl who joins them as a fugitive after she has killed a Confederate oflicer who has mistreated her. And the result is one of the fastest moving, most hairI'aising melodramas of the past year. Wallace Beery is the escaped Yankee sergeant who wants only to keep his stomach filled and head West; John Howard is his young and idealistic superior oflicer bent on regaining the Union lines, and Dolores Del Rio makes an impressive return to the screen as the Russian girl, Jcnny. All three enter into the spirit of the MacKinlay Kantor story with a verve and sincerity which makes for thrilling entertainment, while memorable supporting characterisations are given by such familiar figures as Donald Meek, Robert Barrat and Addison Richards