PALACE THEATRE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10740, 10 November 1928, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE.

“THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII”

A double-feature programme of unusual merit opens at the matinee to-day and will be screened again tonight - at .the - • - - Palace—‘.‘The —Last Days of Pompeii” featuring Victor V arconi and Maria Co-rda and Richard Dix in “Warming lip.” Not at all different from the other flourishing towns of the Roman Empire was Pompeii, which nestled with its twin city Herculanean at the foot of Vesuvius. The people were prosperous, and had the same delight in the fierce contest of the gladiators that their brethren in Rome had. On one. special day, jyhich is the climax of the.-spectacu-lar Paramount Picture at the Palace Theatre, the people streamed to the arena. Were - they not promised sports of rare calibre?- Gladiators? and men thrown to the lions ? Breathless, they watched the trial of the men with net and trident. Who would be the winner - to tackle the next opponent? and after it all came the man who would face lions unfed for days. How they would revel in his struggles and watch the lions sneak to corners of the arena with torn fragments. But they had not paid heed to the rumblings of Vesuvius. Always the mountain had groaned and rumbled. Always there had been smoko front its top. Bu+ to-day the noises were greater. Soon the pall of smoke obscured the sky. What happened to the man who was to face the lions when Vesuvius wiped out the town of Pompefi'? “Warming Up” featuring Richard Dix, is a thrilling baseball story with Dix in the greatest role of his career.