AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20340, 31 August 1940, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE

LAST DAY: “TROPIC FURY" AND “ROOTIN’ TOOTIN’ RHYTHM” Set against the colourful background of Amazon rubber camps, Universal’s “Tropic Fury," starring Richard Arlen and Andy Devine, \yill conclude to-night. In the supporting cast are Beverly Roberts, Samuel S. Hinds. Lupita Tovar and Lou Merrill. “Tropic Fury" reveals a chapter in the plantation strife behind a great rubber monopoly. The associate feature. “Rootin’ Tootin’ Rhythm," has a typical Gene Autry plot—gay, full of thrills and surprises and featuring pleasant musical interludes. —Monday: “Double Alibi" and “There Ain’t No Justice"— Wayne Morris, Margaret Lindsay and William Ga'rgan have the leading roles in Universal’s mystery drama, "Double Alibi," which comes to the Majestic Theatre on Monday. Offered as a different kind of mystery film in .which clues are said to defy solution until the final scenes, “Dcuble Alibi" presents Morris as a young engineer lighting to clear himself of murder, Miss Lindsay as a girl reporter, and Gargan as the hard-boil-ed city editor with an eye for both beauty and headlines. The associate picture on this fine programme is the Associated British boxing drama t’There Ain’t No Justice.” It tells of Jimmy Hanley, a young motor mechanic who is handy with his fists, but will not listen to the pleas of a promoter to take the game on professionally. However, circumstances in his home, and the fact that he is in lOve with a girl in a better position than' himself, makes him decide to turn his capabilities to monetary advantage. He appears in a series ot thrilling, yet crooked bouts, but he is ignorant of the latter. The story goes on to show how he finds this out, and fights his way to fame in the true tradition of sportsmanship. Included in the programme will be the serial, “The Lone Ranger Rides Again.” KING’S THEATRE SANDY POWELL IN “ALL AT SEA” The celebrated Lancashire comedian Sandy Powell is seen as an able seaman in the navy in his latest film, “'All At Sea,” now-showing at the King's Theatre. ' “All At Sea” features the first big naval wartime song hit, “Ain’t It Grand to be in the Navy,” which was written by Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr, the team who composed “South of the Border and “The Siegfried Line.” In the filjn Sandy wages a lone fight against a pair of enemy agents who are trying to steal a secret nevv high explosive. the supporting cast includes the Australian actor, John Warwick. \yho has done so well abroad. REGENT THEATRE “EACH DAWN I DIE”: SENSATIONAL FILM Before large audiences, yesterday, the Regent presented one of the most sensational thrill productions that Gisborne has ever seen, “Each Dawn I Die,” a picture that defies comparison with anything of its class before. This magpifiegnt spectacle will be shovyp ggain to-night. The teaming of Japies Cagpey and George Raft in “Each pawn I Pie,” brings together the screen’s two topmost portrayers of authentic modern “hard guys,” and the result is a picture which achieves a brilliant reality—far and away the strongest drama of this type ever to reach the screen. Not only has each contributed a character portrayal that compares more fhan favourably with anything along the same line that he Ifas ever done before, but jointly they present a rarely achieved welding of great talents. Both are tough, both are hard, and yet both are distinctive. And that is just it should be. for the story of the picture demands that they be entirely different types of persons. In the fine screen play based on Jerome Odium’s novel of the same name. Cagney at the outset is anything but the almost animalistic conyict that he becomes later on. whereas Raft is from the first a criminal a cruel and callous killer and yet a man of principle, unsocial though his ideas may have been. Sent to gaol as the result of a frame-up, Cagney is natu-> rally rebellious. His attitude is met with brutality by the prison authorities and that results in a degeneration which makes of hirp> on the surface at least. as tough and vicious a man as any convict in the place. After he saves Raft’s life, the latter gives him a loyalty which eventually results in Raft himself laying down his life to' prove his friends Innocence. Thus Raft vindicates the only principle to which he has adhered in his whole life. Supporting the two stars is an extraordinarily able cast. Playing opposite Cagney in her first lead in an important picture. Jane Brvan gives a rare picture of tender devotion, courage and loyalty as the sweetheart of the wrongfully imprisoned man. The only other woman in the cast is Emma Dunn, Who 1 gives an intensely moving performance as Cagney’s ipother.