REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“TRADER HORN.” Mighty drama of a primeval world of atavism rampant in almost unknown spots of the glome; thundering adventure, strange rites of a savage people in the jungles—these are the background for an everlasting story of devotion, love and romance, in “Trader Horn,” Metro - GoldwynMayer’s gigantic filmisation of the famous book, which is enjoying a return season at the Regent Theatre. To describe "Trader Horn” staggers the imagination. There is drama that grips the heart in the play—and drama equally as gripping in the savage death dance of the wild Isorgi a ceremony thousands of years old in the pathless jungle that the picture brings, with sound and all. to the talking screen. Harry Carey gives a magnificent performance in the role of Trader Horn, the guardian of Peru, his friend’s son, and of the golden-haired Nina T. “White Goddess” in a temple of a savage tribe. Duncan Renaldo plays the role of Peru convincingly and Edwina Booth is beautiful as well as dramatic in the heroine’s role. Olioe Golden and others are in the cast, not to forget Mutia, the giant native, who enacts Renchero with all the skill of a trained screen actor. “I Am tile Law” and "She Had to Eat.” Painted against the stark background of a big city and replete with fresh dramatic turns which make it a great original amongst the more familiar types of anti-gangland films, Columbia’s “I Am the Law” will be presented at the Regent Theatre on Saturday, with Edward G. Robinson convincingly starred as its dynamic fighting prosecutor. Rochelle Hudson, Arthur Treacher, and Eugene Pallette are featured in the cast supporting Jack Haley, the comedian who was laughed to fame in “Wake Up and Live,” in his latest hilarious effusion from Twentieth Century-Fox, “She Had to Eat,” which opens on Saturday at the Regent Theatre.