TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 17 September 1934, Page 2

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

OPERA HOUSE

FINALLY TO-NIGHT

“ALICE IN WONDERLAND”

After living for generations in story book land, all the strange, unusual people that roam the pages of Lewis Carroll’s beloved fantasy “Alice in Wonderland,’ have come to life on the screen. They can be seen at the Opera House finally tonight. Sweet, remarkably intelligent “Alice,” tbe Cheshire Cat, the Gulden Frog, the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty, King of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the March Hare, and all the other runny people are in the film. All played by such Hollywood stars as Richard Arlen, Roscoe Ates, Gary Cooper, Leon Errol, Louise Fazenda, W. C. Fields, Skeets Gallagher, Carv Grant, Raymond Hatton, Baby Le Roy, Mae Marsh, Polly Moran, Eldward Elverett Horton, Roscoe Earns, Jack Oakie, Edna May Oliver, May Robson, Charlie Ruggles, Alison Skipworth, Ned Sparks and Ford Sterling. Charlotte Henry plays the title role.

OPERA HOUSE

COMMENCING TO-MORROW, 2 p.m.

“FLYING DOWN TO RIO”

Beautiful motion-picture chorines have been insured for their faces, their figures and their limbs and hands, but those who appear in RKO-Radio’s musical extravaganza, “Flying Down to Rio,” set a new precedent by having to be insured for their lives! The production, which for the first time in talking picture history unites air thrills and musical comedy- drama, is climaxed by the complete staging of a girl show in mid-air, the performers enacting their roles and their; dances on the wings of ’planes soaring aloft over Rie de Janiero. Other beauties do pull-offs from the ships and perform on thin air while wafted to earth via parachute. The story, dealing with the adventures of an American jazz hand leader in Brazil and his romance with a beautiful native girl is enacted by Gene Raymond at “the boy,” Dolores Del Rio, “the girl,” Raul Roulien, the South American rival, along with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the comedy relief. “Flying Down to Rio” screens to-morrow for a season of two nights. Matinees daily at 2 p.m.

GRAND THEATRE

FINALLY TO-NIGHT

“NO MORE WOMEN” AND “MURDERS IN THE ZOO”

Even the bottom of the sea is not big enough to hold both Edmund Lowe and Victor McLachlan, those ivals of countless screen battles, who bobbed up again on Saturday at the Grand Theatre for a two nights’ season in the Paramount picture, “No More Fomen,” a riotous saga of salvage divers,. perhaps the most colourful offering of the team’s career. Divers by day and Romeos by night, they fight and caress their way through a veritable cyclone of adventures and romance.

Death strikes mysteriously suddenly. ... horribly to all those who dare woo favours from the warm, red lips of a beautiful woman in Paramount’s thrilling “Murders in the Zoo,’ which opened on Saturday for a season of two nights at the Grand Theatre, featuring Charlie Ruggles, Lionel At will, Kathlen Burke, Randolph Scott, John Lodge and Gail Patrick.

Chapter 1 of .Gordon of Ghost City will also be presented.

“HIS DOUBLE LIFE.”

The fourth and probably one of the best of the new films issuing from the reactivated Astoria, Long Island studios is “His Double Life,” coming tomorrow for a two-night season at the Grand Theatre, and starring Lillian Gish and Roland Young. “His Double Life,” the latest release on a rapidly growing schedule, was pioduced for Paramount release by Eddie Dowling, in association with Arthur Hopkins. It concerns the adventures of a shy artistic genius, played by Roland Young, whose anxiety to avoid publicity causes him to witness his own funeral, marries him to the wrong woman, and nearly results in a gaol term fo r impersonation of himself.