REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“TOO HOT TO HANDLE.” Five major thrills, reminiscent of five great news events, provide the background for the new Clark GableMyrna Loy picture, “Too Hot Too Handle,” which will be shown tonight at the Regent. Theatre. They include the aerial bombing of Shanghai, the crash of a famed aviatrix's plane on a round-the-world flight, the explosion of a mystery munitions ship, the disappearance and rescue of an American flyer held as a white god by natives in the South American jungles, and a pitched battle between the New York police and a notorious two-gun gangster barricaded in a tenement flat with a “tommy-gun.” A story of newsreelmen, Clark Gable and Walter Pidgeon play rival newsreel cameramen and Myrna Loy portrays the daring aviatrix. They are supported by Walter Connolly, who plays Gable’s boss, and Leo Carrillo as Gable’s sound man. For the picture a section of bombed Shanghai was recreated, a plane was crashed and burned, a 315foot liner was burned at sea while two hundred expert swimmers were rescued from the turbulent sea, a New York street was erected for the gun battle, and a picture expedition was sent into the Dutch Guiana jungles to film a tribe of one thousand negroes who had never before seen a white man. On a round-the-world flight, Miss Loy crashes her plane in Shanghai. If such a person as William Tell really existed, it was his misfortune that, movie cameras were not available to record his marksmanship with bow and arrow. Legend says the fourteenth century Swiss peasant shot an apple from his son’s head at the order of an Austrian tyrant. The modern William Tell, a swarthy genius named Howard Hill, has proof of his own phenomenal deeds which are recorded on films, the latest of which.-is a Pete Smith short, “Follow/the Arrow,” which will be screened on Saturday/ Monday and Tuesday at the Regent Theatre. Hill also doubled for Errol Flynn in the “Robin Hood” bow-an-arrow scenes. He has killed bear, deer, moose, crocodiles, eagles and sharks with bow and arrow. He can hit ducks on the wing, or kill fish in 12 feet of water. He has shot an apple off a friend’s head at 60 feet.