AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 250, 5 October 1932, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

COSY TALKIES, HASTINGS. '•THE HONOURABLE MB WONG." Edward G. Robinson, in "The Houcurable Mr Wong,” his latest First Kltional and Vitaphone starring Vehicle, at the Cosy Talkies to-night, acquired for his role in the thrilling drama the ancient and honourable Chinese art of hatehet-hurling. As Mr Wong, Robinson is hatchet Kan of the Lem Sing Tong. It is his eolemn obligation to act as the arm of justice according to immemorial custom, and to send the hatchet on its Way when someone has committed an offence against the tong. In the picture he is compelled to hurl the glittering missile through the eye of a Chinese dragon to prove that he really is the bearer of the august title. The leading feminine role in “The Honourable Mr Wong” is played by Loretta Young at Toya San, ward, wife and object of protection to Mr Wong. Toya San’s half-caste lover is played by Leslie Fenton. Others in the cast are Dudley Digges, Edmund Breese, Tully Marshall, Noel Madison, Eulalie Jensen, J. Carrol Naish, Nat Pendleton, Otto Yamioka, Evelyn Selbie, E. Allyn Warren, Eddie Piel, Willie Fung and Gladys Lloyd (Mrs Edward G. Robineon). MUNICIPAL THEATRE, HASTINGS "THE ROAD TO SINGAPORE.” The spell of the tropics has been eaught with peculiar authenticity by camera and microphone in William Powell’s new picture, "The Road to Singapore,” which is showing at the Municipal Theatre, Hastings to-night. The inability of the white race to prosper in these unnatural surroundings or to enforce their social rules and ethical standards, is the basis of the darkly glamorous story of "The Road to Singapore,” the story of two people who finally defied these standards and found happiness in' their own way. William Powell, Doris Kenyon, Marian Marsh, and Louis Calhern share the honours. The story is of Hugh Dawltry—sauve and worldly idler, who, for reasons best known to himself spends his days in the jungle-haunted town of Khota, in Ceylon, returning from England meets on board the ship Philippa, an English girl bound to Ceylon to marry Dr. March. Philippa is duly married to March, who neglects her shamefully, but thoughtlessly, for his patients. Gradually the spell of the patients. Later the husband realises what he has done, and the story sweeps to a dramatic and unexpected climax. ARCADIA TALKIES, HASTINGS. "THE BIG GAMBLE.” "The Big Gamble," red-blooded dramatic entertainment that satisfies to the last fade-out is Bill Boyd’s new R.K.O. Pathe starring vehicle which opens at the Arcadia to-day. It is a fast, absorbing action story and has a striking plot and a perfect cast. A young fellow who has had things easy all his life finds himself at the end of his rope, broke and beaten. To souare his debts and exit from tho world with everything even, he barters his life to the man into whose power he has fallen. To make sure of collecting the forfeit money, the sinister one marries his victim to a girl who has put herself into his hands to save her brother. The plan is for the wife to collect the husband’s insurance when he is gone and hand it over. Then the chap who thinks he is tired of the world finds he has a lot to live for, but the trap is closed and can only be opened by more money than he is able to raise. There is one desperate chance to square the count. He takes it, and just when success is in sight, he has to opens at the Arcadia to-night. It is a Then comes the blood-tingling climax.