A NEW DETECTIVE FILM

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21867, 21 August 1936, Page 6

A NEW DETECTIVE FILM

THIS WEEK’S FEATURES AT CIVIC “WE’RE ONLY HUMAN” A^D “CHARLIE CHAN’S SECRET” “We’re, Only Human," which is commencing at the Civic to-day, is a new type of detective story starring Preston Foster. Its swift pace will keep audiences at a feverish level of excitement

It is the story of a detective-sergeant and a girl reporte. - who eggs him on to recover a reputation for oaring and efficiency lost when his nerve gofes completely from him. > His heroism finally overcomes the stigma attached to him, and justifies the girl’s faith. “Charlie Chan’s Secret” will also be shown.

PLAZA

“CLIVE OF INDIA”

“Clive of India,” which is beginning a session at tlfte Plaza to-day, has Ronald Colman, minus his moustache, in the starring role. The film is produced on a lavish scale and judged as a piece of entertainment with a ' convincing eighteenth century background, it leaves little to be desired.- The Indian scenes have been very well constructed. Colman has probably never played a more important or more difficult part, and he emerges from the experience with great credit. It has been left to the film to tell the inner tale of Clive’s love affair and marriage, and Hollywood, which understands such things well, has entrusted the role of Clive’s beloved to Loretta Young, who makes a very lovely eighteenth century maiden. Clive falls in love with her from seeing her portrait, writes to her and asks her to marry him. She does so, and there develops a romance which interferes at times with Clive’s ambition and public work. 1

MAJESTIC

“BOULDER DAM” AND “ROAMING LADY”

“Boulder Dam,” starring Ross Alexander and Patricia Ellis, will start at the Majestic to-morrow The picture is based on the story of the building of this mighty project, and the lives of the daredevil workmen who blasted their way through solid rock and scaled the walls hundreds of feet above the river is painted in file picture in colourful detail. Death faced these workers at every turn, and many of their deeds of heroism, depicted in this film, will go down in the history of this great undertaking. An adventure-romance that moves at a thrilling speed from San Francisco’s Nob Hill to a rebel camp in bandit-ridden China is the associate feature. The film is Columbia’s “Roaming Lady,” with Fay Wray and Ralph Bellamy featured in the leading roles.

TIVOLI

“THREE LIVE GHOSTS”

Sparkling comedy, full of moments of thrilling excitement and romance make the screen play of “Three Live Ghosts,” which has been transferred from the Regent to the Tivpli Theatre, unusual entertainment.

The plot concerns the adventures of three soldiers who returned from the war to And themselves officially “dead” and their humorous wanderings through London without names or identities.

In the history of contemporary light literature, and in the history of the modern metropolitan theatre, few titles are better known than “Three Live Ghosts,” Frederick S. Osham wrote both the novel and the play. This picture was produced by John W. Considine, jun., who gave the screen “Sequoia” and other hits, and H. Bruce Humberstone directed. The screen play was written by C. Gardner Sullivan.

CRYSTAL PALACE

“DON’T GET PERSONAL” AND , “TOO MANY PARENTS”

Four years ago Jimmy Dunn and Sally Eilers captured the hearts and the imagination of movie fans when they won the Motion Picture Academy award for the best portrayals of 1932 in the film “Bad Girl.” Now. they come to the Crystal Palace in “Don’t Get Personal,.” beginning to-day. The story begins with a laughable situation that gets more uproarious as it goes along. Jimmy and Pinky Tomlin offer themselves at auction to the highest, bidder. They arts about to be claimed by a spinster with a determined gleam in her eye when they are sayed by Sally. Romance then takes the three of them in charge. “Too Many Parents,” the second feature, with Frances Farmer and Lester Matthews playing the adult leads, features Bufeter Phelps, Billy Lee, George Ernest, and Sherwood Bailey as the juvenile stars in this story of boys “without parents”—thrown together in a military boarding school.

GRAND

“THE GHOST TRAIN” AND “THE

MIDSHIPMAID”

“The Ghost Train,” which together with “The Midshipmaid” will begin atthe Grand Theatre to-day, is too well known both as a legitimate play and ? *° need any laudatory comment. Jack Hulbert, the best of modern British comedians, heads the cast, and he is suoported by Cicely Courtneidge, Ann Tcdd, and Donald Calthrop, Hulbert takes the part of Teddy Deakin whose irresponsible ways are the cause of the party being left on deserted Fal Vale station for the night when the ‘ Ghost Train” is due to pass. Jessie Matthews has the '■ leading role in ' The Midshipmaid.”

BIRTHDAY OF MICKEY MOUSE

PARTY AT ST. JAMES’ THEATRE

A special programme is, advertised in connexion with Mickey Mouse’s birthday party, which will be held at the St. James’ "Theatre to-morrow afternoon. . -v