AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 12028, 21 May 1936, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Town Hall Edmund Lowe and Victor MeLnglen, who have added to the gaiety of Ihe nations with their Screen antics, are at it again, this time as rival mystery stueths who get into each other’s hair, and who linu eaeli other more baffling than the murder mystery which they set out to unravel. The newest Fox Film comedy-drama, "The Great Hotel Murder,” which opened at the Town Hall last night, we hasten to vole a good Him thrill-paeked and ehoekful ot mirth—a rare combination for a mystery thriller. It's a merry, mad adventure they start on, MeLnglen as a house detective with plenty of brawn, and Lowe as a mystery writer with a logical brain. Kosemary Ames holds the key to the mystery they set out to solve in the de luxe hotel where the sinister crime occurs,

The Regent ".Mutiny on the bounty,” Melro-Gold-wyu-Mayer's sea classic now screening at the llcgent Theatre, is a picture that must take the highest place of all sea dramas converted to the motion picture* screen. Three stars, Charles Laughton, Frauehdt Tone and Clarke Gable top a notable cast of more than fifty featured players, but the outstanding star of ail is the sturdy little square-rigger "U.M.tj. bounty,” which figured in one of the most dramatic chapters of sea drama more than 1W years ago. "Mutiny on the bounty,” a crowning production achievement for Irving G. Thaiberg, is the sea adventure immortalized so recently by the sensational bool; ot Charles Xordoff and James Hall. It is the true story of a seientitie expedition of a group of men who rise in mutiny against the tyranny of their captain anil who are eventually tracked down by the long arm of England's' sea law and led back to an ignoble dealli on a yardarm.