ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 December 1936, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. With Margaret Lindsay and Glenda Farrell teamed as a pair of young women lawyers, "The Law in Hei Hands,” to he shown to-night is gay with fun and vivid with swift and dramatic action. The picture literally starts with a bang when a racketeer hurls a bomb into a restaurant where the two feminine lawyers are being photographed at luncheon by a news cameraman. This starts their career, for they squash the photograph which shows him just behind the two girls. Their cleverness catches the attention of the boss racketeer, who offers them a fat retainer to handle his business for him. The girls refuse until Warren Hull, who has the role of an assistant district attorney, and the lover of Miss Lindsay, makes the mistake of having her appointed to defend a criminal from whom he already has obtained a confession. Furious at being framed, the women lawyers first win their case and then decide to fight tricks with tricks. They accept the offer of the racketeer to handle his cases, and become famous as criminal lawyers, winning cases by tricks, not only clever, but hilariously funny. Lyle Talbot has the part of the boss racketeer, who overplays his hand when he poisons,milk for babies to enforce his. graft and murders witnesses to* cover up his tracks. Kidnapped by the gangsters when she refuses to handle his case, Miss Lind■say pretends to come to her senses, wins his battle in court, and then, in one of the most amazing and thrilling climaxes imaginable, reveals the ruse she had resorted to, and convicts her own client of murder by incontrovertible evidence. "THE UNGUARDED HOUR.” This big attraction, featuring Franchot Tone, Loretta Young and Lewis Stone, will be screened Christmas Day at the Opera House.

REGENT THEATRE. Sprightly Jack Oakie and charming Sally Eilers are well teamed in “Florida Special,” the new mystery-thriller-comedy at the Regent. In this story of romance and intrigue, a heterogeneous lot of characters ar,e thrown together on a speeding train. Jack Oakie (star reporter) and Sally Eilers (train hostess) give an excellent account of themselves in exciting roles. An eccentric millionaire chains a box filled with precious stones to his secretary, and with his niece embarks for Florida, with a newspaper reporter, a drunken playboy, a detective on his vacation, and two gangs of crooks on his heels. The secretary is murdered, the jewel stolen, and the millionaire vanishes. Kent Taylor, the playboy, falls in love with Sally; Claude Gillingwater is the cranky millionaire; and Frances Drake his niece. Sam Hearn, of radio fame, appears in his first screen role; Sidney Blackmer is the head of a gang of thieves.

“THE COUNTRY BEYOND.” Love that flames in the trackless country, and mountles who pursue a killer into lawless land, fill a tingling hour with adventure, excitement and drama at the Regent Theatre, where “The Country Beyond” brings back Buck, sensational screen dog hero, with an all-star Hollywood cast. Paul Kelly and Robert Kent, enacting mbunties, cross the path of Miss Rochelle Hudson when they come to ar-

rest her father for a murder committed by another man. With the aid of their dog, Miss Hudson and Alan Hale, the father, set out on the trail of the actual killer. Kent overtakes Miss Hudson, whilst Kelly continues on Hale’s trail. The film follows the adventures of • the young folk as they fight their way back to civilisation and learn love through hardship shared together. Finally, there is a dramatic denouement. "KING OF THE DAMNED.” Auto-suggestion played a great part in the pestilential jungle scenes for “King of the Damned,” coming to the Regent on Wednesday. Convicts Veidt and Noah Beery were convinced that they contracted malaria in this jungle. Terrific energy was expended by the convict gang on “the road.” Beery swung sledge hammers with the skill of a veteran criminal, due to his training in putting up circus tents in the days of the American road-shows.