ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 40, 26 November 1937, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ST. JAMES THEATRE. ‘“The Mystery of the Mary Celeste” and “The Cattle Thief,” two films on widely differing themes, will be screened finally to-night at the St. James Theatre. Each is replete with thrilling action. “Tall Timbers,” Ciilesound’s latest production, showing at two sessions tomorrow and again on Monday night, is a modern, dramatic romance, filmed in Nature’s stronghold, the Valley of the Giants, with the most astounding action climax ever unleashed. Imagine a mighty “timber drive,” something never before attempted on the screen, when 50 acres of towering forest giants crash with thunder-like roars into the valley below, at mere man’s command. 'The film is a delightful adaptation of Captain Frank Hurley’s great Australian romance, a. tender love story that grows to strength and loveliness in a fiery cauldron of unleashed passions as rival companies clash in fight for big timber contracts, and men daily flirt with death when treacherous methods result in many “accidents,” including tho sensational explosion of the timber train bridge and the mysterious cutting of the steel hawser of the “flying fox” which carried the huge logs across the valley.