“I AM THE LAW”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 39, 16 February 1939, Page 3

“I AM THE LAW”

EDWARD G. ROBINSON STARS In his latest film. “I Am the Law,” to screen on Saturday of next week at the Regent Theatre, Edward G. Robinson is featured as a rather quiet and lovable professor of law at an American academy. The story opens just as he is saying good-bye to his pupils before leaving on a year’s tour abroad with his wife, a role convincingly played by Barbara O’Neil. But just before his departure some idea of the terror instilled in lhe hearts of the shopkeepers of the town by racketeers is forcibly brought home to him. Instead of departing on holiday he is installed as Public Prosecutor. He is eventually successful in cleaning up the town. The associate feature is “She Had to Eat.”

Darryl Zanuck is said to be looking for a story in which Tyrone Power can be starred as a prize-fighter. Louis Hayward is the final choice for Douglas Fairbanks’ old part in the re-make of “The Man in the Iron Mask.”

In “You Can't Cheat an Honest Man,” W. C. Fields plays a circus owner and in one sequence appears as a bearded lady. About the Castles. Many older theatregoers will remember the exquisite dancing of the Vernon Castle duo —Irene Castle and her husband—and their all-too-few film appearances in the days before the talkies. The incredibly slim’ Mrs. Castle was a joy to watch in the ini tricacies of dances that were poems

of motion compared with the catch-as-catch-can. dot-and-carry-one steps of the modern crazes. It is interesting therefore to note that their lives are to be made a feature for talkie production with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire following, as closely as they can, the autobiography of the talented pair who made dance history before the days of the rhumba, tapdance, Lambeth Walk, and Big Apple. The film will make an earnest attempt to present the lives of the Castles in the period between 1911 and 1918 when they were the ' greatest entertainment figures in America. Mrs. Castle, who remarried and retired from public life, is ' sponsor of a big animal hospital in the United States and seldom comes into social or public life, preferring her useful retirement to publicity and Hollywood.