WELL-BALANCED PROGRAMME

Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 21

WELL-BALANCED PROGRAMME

MAYFAIR'S TWO FEATURES Because of their widely differing natures, the two pictures which opened to-day at the Mayfair should meet with the approval of South Dunedin patrons of this popular theatre. These two features are ‘ Tarzan and His Mate and ‘ The Witching Hour.’ An under-water battle between a man and a crocodile at ft depth of moie than 30ft will be shown on the screen for the first time in ‘ Tarzan and His Mate.’ Johnny Weissmuller is one or the combatants. In this picture the swimming champion was required to plunge into a river with a_ man-eating crocodile for a scone in which he saves the life of Maureen O’Sullivan. To photograph the strange battle a special camera device was constructed to. penetrate water depths. Appearing in. the cast with Weissmuller and Miss O Sullivan are Neil Hamilton and Paul Cavanaugh. The story is based on the famous fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. ‘ The Witching Hour,’ the other picture, tells the story of the memory of a beautiful love and how that memory returns to save the love or a new generation. Tom Brown, as Olay Thorne, and Judith Allen, as Nancy Brookfield, play the young, lovers. Thorne, while under hypnotic influence kills a man whom his fiancee s father had hated. The repentant father and the bov’s mother appeal to a great iurist for aid in his defence. Ancl it is only when they invoke the memory of his great love for the boy’s grandmother that the jurist comes to thenassistance. The court room climax, which employs one of the most startling and effective dramatic devices ever screened, brings the picture to ft breath-taking finish.