AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 257, 13 October 1932, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

COSY TALKIES, HASTINGS. “ALIAS THE DOCTOR.” Surrounded by a powerful cast, iu a powerful and novel story, Richard Barthelmess, First National star, is at the Cosy Theatre, Hastings, in “Alias The Doctor.” It is an adaptation of an Hungarian stage play—one of the best vehicles Dick ever had. Sharing honours with him are Marian Marsh, Adrienne Dore, Norman Foster, John St. Polis, George Rosener and others. Barthelmess plays the role of Karl, an orphan, brought up by Mother Brenner on a farm in Bavaria, with her other two children, Lottie (Marian Marsh), and Stephen (Norman Foster). He and Lottie are deeply in love. Karl also loves the fields and the farm lands, but Mother Brenner has an overpowering ambition to get away from the farm. She sends her own son, Stephan, and Karl, whom she loves as a son, tb the University at Munich to -'tody surgery. At the University Karl is the star student, Stephan an indifferent one. Just before graduation Stephan performs an operation but the patient dies. To save Stephan. Karl says he performed the operation and is sent to prison. Stephan is graduated and does some desultory practice, but developing lung trouble, dies. On the day of his funeral, Karl returns home. A child is injured in an auto accident just outside the house. Seeing the case is critical, Karl performs an operation and saves the child’s life, A great surgeon from Vienna pronounces Karl a genius and insists that he go with him to Vienna. Mother Brenner, her hopes of greatness revived, tells the surgeon that Karl is Stephan. ARCADIA TALKIES, HASTINGS. POLA NEGRI IN “A WOMAN COMMANDS.” Pola Negri makes her first appearance in talkies>in the R.K.O. Radio production “A Woman Commands,” which is now screening at the Arcadia, and proves that she is just as forcible and brilliant a star on the audible screen as she was in the silent. An outstanding cast is in support. Appearing opposite the Polish star is Basil Rathbone, who scored a brilliant sucess opposite Constance Bennett in “Sin Takes a Holiday.” One of the other featured leads is filled by H. B. Warner, whose prominence on the screen dates back several years to the making of .“Silence,” and “The King of Kings.” In this biblical drama Warner played Christus, with a tenderness and beauty which will make his name forever remembered in the annals of motion pictures. Others to lend distinction to the cast are Roland Young, Frank Reicher, May Boley and George Baxter. The story concerns a girl who, to spite her lover, marries a king, causing disorder and revolution amongst the people, the whole working up to a great climax. For reserves ring ’Phone 4336.