RECENT THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11493, 21 November 1931, Page 6

RECENT THEATRE

“DIRIGIBLE.”

Tliq Regent opens to-day with “Dirigible.” which is claimed to he easily” the most thrilling aerial adventure picture yet made. _ It is the sense of adventure and virile manhood which provide a welcome change from the usual drama. Jt would be hard to-imagine anything more thrilling than the break-up of an airship during a storm, followed by its spectacular crash into the sea; yet that is only an episode in a film which is packed with excitement. The “stunting” of rivals the aerial fighting in “Hell’s Angels,” while an airman is. shown flying clean through a hangar, a stunt in which one slip would mean disaster. Even more spectacular is the way in which an aeroplane hooks itself bv means of a giant clasp on to the body of an. airship Hi flight, ['he flight to the South Pole in an aeroplane is shown with the crew throwing stores overboard to lift it over the continuous range of ice mountains. Then the <\nt/husiasm when the Pole is actually reached, and the despair caused by the crash of the aeroplane as the too-confident pilot attempts a landing amongst the treacherous hummocks is graphically depicted. There is a feeling of sheer relief when the giant airship, sent to their rescue, successfully drops two parachutists, who have them hauled up to the ship. Jack Holt and Ralph Graves, both of whom are just the tpye of thq hard-bitten roles they are called on to adfc, are included ‘in the cast, and Fay Wray supplies the touch of feminine charm Box plfins at Chrisp’s,