LOCAL FILM FARE FOR THE WEEK

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 12332, 22 April 1938, Page 6 (Supplement)

LOCAL FILM FARE FOR THE WEEK

REGENT To-night and Saturday. — “Wife Doctor and Nurse." Loretta Young. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. “Stage Door," Ginger Rogers. Katherine Hepburn. TOWN HALL To-night.—“ Turn off the Moon.” “That’s My Story.” Saturday.— “Flight from Glory,” Onslow Stevens; “The Westland Case," Preston Foster. Tuesday, Wednesday.— “Exclusive,” Fred Mac Murray. Frances Farmer. -■ / Thursday, Friday.— Think T ast Mr Moto,” Peter Lorre.

Ernst says that one of the secrets of Marlene Dietrich’s suc-_ 'cess Is the fact that site retains her * glamour in real life. CHINATOWN IS NOW LITTLE OCCIDENT With all the population resources of the world’s largest expatriated Chinatown open to him, executive producer Sol M. Wurtzel found San Francisco strangely lacking in Orientals of commonplace appearance and modest ideas. Such types weie needed in profusion to lend atmosphere to “Think Fast, Mr Moto, starring Peter Lorre, fihe reason, advanced by’the Chinese themselves, is that everybody in Chinatown is now a tap-dancer, crooner or some sort of specialist of that nature. Everyone formerly available as a film extra has cut his hair in Occidental fashion, eats Occidental food and has decidedly Occidental ideas of his own importance in any picture for which he signs. “I could have got an army of actors, athletes, singers, dancers and what-not,” sighed director Norman Foster, “but when it came to just plain Chinese to loaf along the streets and be photographed as Shanghai atmosphere, there were mighty few available.” A THRILLING STORY “Flight from Glory” showing at the Town Hall to-morrow night, is a thrilling story. Deprived of his pilot’s license as a result of a drunken crash, and nearly broke, Van Heflin goes to South America to fly for the Trans-Andeau Lines, accompanied by his bride, Whitney Bourne. The flyers are all outcasts, the planes are old and rickety and the mountainous country over which they fly is dangerous. The line’s miserly owner is Ouslo Stevens and Chester Morris is chief pilot. Other pilots are Richard Lane, Walter Miller and Paul Guilfoyle. Solly Ward, a former Russian ace, is their mechanic, and Rita Laßoy is the cook. , Rita is jealous of another woman’s presence: the rest make it clear that the newcomers don’t belong. A sixth pilot appears, Douglas Walton, whose pleasant demeanour attracts Lee’s interests in contrast to the others’ glumness. Heflin drinks himself into an irritable state. Morris offers to raise money to send the; pair home, but Whitney refuses after Morris kisses her in the hope that her ■ resentment will make her change her ‘ mind. Heflin goes to pieces when he sees Lane dashed to death. Now Walton offers to lend Whitney enough to go home on, but site refuses. Heflin has become jealous of both Morris and Hilton. She tries to get him to stop drinking, but fails. However, Walton, after bitterly upbraiding him, takes Heflin's flight himself and is killed. Maddened by the accident and realising ; he spoiled Whitney's life, Heflin tells Stevens he is no better than a mur-| dferer, and' at the point of, a gun forces Stevens to fly with him. High over the mountains he causes Stevens to take the controls and jumps to his death. Stevens, helpless, is also killed. And Whitney, now cognisant of her real feelings toward Morris, leaves for the States with him to begin a new life.

The lapel microphone enters motion pictures. To catch dialogue against roaring airplane motors, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy wore these tiny microphones concealed beneath clothing in many scenes of “Test Pilot."