AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 12317, 2 April 1938, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Town Hall A thrilling love story framed against an iee hockey background. Universal's "Idol of the Crowds" opens to-day at the Town Hall with John Wayne and Sheila Itromlev in the leading roles. The picture deals with the adventures of a handsome voting amateur ice hockey star who is lured to the professional rink through necessity—the necessity of obtaining 10.000 dollars to insure a life of happiness with i lie woman he loves. Buck Jones makes a welcome return tn "The Fighting Banger,” also screening at the Town Hall. The ace of Western stars is at his best in this action packed thriller. The Regent •■Love Under Fire" Twentieth CenturyFox comedv-drama. which screens to-day at the Kegent Theatre, is a story of romance and excitement in war-time Spain, the reekless land of ardent love. Loretta Young, gayer and lovelier than ever and Don Ameche, star of radio's Sunday night hright-spot. ration out kisses Uv' the light of bursting star-shells, to the tunc of winning shrapnel, and the mad music of Borrah Minevitch and his gang, whose catchy rhythms make machineguns rat-tat-tat in swing time. . On Monday, the Kegent screens ’Knight Without Armour" starring Marlene Dietrich and Hubert Donat, one of tbe most glamromantic teams in screen instorj. Fittingly enough, their vehicle Is a great love storv from the pen of the famous James Hilton who wrote "Goodbye Mr Chilis” and "Lost Horizon." "Knight Without Armour casts Marline as an alluring Itnssian countess, and Donat is seen as a mysterious modern knight t mint whose hatred tiares inW a daine of protective love as they live through a scries of stirring adventures, knowing moments of incomparable horror and bliss ns thev flee from the countless terrors that threaten to tear them apart.