AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 81, 17 March 1934, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

ARCADIA FEATURES. “ORIENT EXPRESS” AND “TREASON.” “Orient Express,” Fox Film’s latest production with a cast that features seven stars, will make its appearance at the Arcadia Theatre, Hastings, tonight. Based upon Graham Greene’s best selling novel, the film is reported as being a tense, dramatic characterisation of seven people, who are swept together from the far corners of the earth to find the course of their lives changed through their journey abroad the Orient Express as it speeds from Ostend t« Constantinople. The story concerns itself with a dancer, hungry and looking for work; a wealthy young merchant, who fails in love with the dancer; a Cockney Englishman, under the thumb of his domineering wife; a thief, fleeing from justice; a beautiful girl, thirsting for love; and a woman reporter, seeking to uncover the plans of a powerful Communist leader All are aboard the Orient Express, each heading for his own. particular destination. As the train reaches the Yugo-Slayian border, and the Communist leader is about to be arrested, ho gives an incriminating letter to the dancer. This leads to her arrest. The thief, the Communist leader and the dancer are removed from the train and are held as prisoners. While in prison, the thief plans an escape, sends the other two out into the night, and remains behind with the hope of securing a pardon. The film is said to end in a climax of whirlwind action and tender romance. Heather Angel and Norman Foster play the romantic leads. The other members of the cast are Ralph Morgan, Herbert Mundin, Una O’Connor, Irene Ware, Dorothy Burgess, Lisa Gora, William Irving, Roy D’Arcy, Perry Ivins, Fredrik Vogeding and Marc Lobell. Also showing on the same programme is “Treason”, featuring Buck Jones. This marks a departure from the cowboy characterisations Jones usually appears in, but his work in “Treason”, gives him the same unbounded opportunity.to reveal his great horsemanship, his fighting prowess and his mastery of men as the more conventional Western. The story deals with Jones’ assignment as a stalwart Scout to go out and capture a young woman warrior (Shirley Gray) who is fighting the government with a largo band of followers. She is accused of murder, robbery and arson and there is a £3OOO price on her head. Jones is sent to capture her, dead or alive. How he gets into her camp, fights and outwits her followers, and brings back his fair quarry, only to fall desperately in love with her, and eventually save her from death by the noose, makes one of the greatest dramatic stories any star of the screen ever has had. REMARKABLE FILM AT COSY JOHN BOLES IN “ONLY YESTERDAY” The most absorbing love drama shown on our screen for many years will be shown at the Cosy Theatre this change. This remarkable picture is the Universal production, “Only Yesterday,” the crowning achievement of John M. Stahl, that master director of domeslie problem plays. Surging emotions bring to the story a tense quality which is admirably interpreted by a real all star cast, of 72 principals, headed by Margaret Sullavau, John Boles, Billie Burke and Reginald Denny, and also includes Edan Mae Oliver, Franklin Pangborn, Berton Churchill, Benita Hume, Onslow Stevens, June Clyde, Barry Norton, Natalie Moorhead, Walter Catlett and Betty Blythe. The story covers the exciting period between the entrance of America into the World War and the cataclysmis Stock Market crash of November, 1929. Against this panorama of American life is portrayed a vitally poignant love story which hae never been equalled for sheer emotional quality on the screen. Even Stahl’s own “Back Street” is unimportant beside the romance of Margaret Sullavau playing a uaive, adorable Southern belle and John Boles, the handsome thoughtless officer. Miss Sullavau, making her movie debut straight from “Dinner at 8” on Broadway, will also make screen history by her brilliant performance. You will see a new star born here. More than three months were taken up in filming the picture, which abounds in lavish scenes, including s gay New Year’s Eve celebration a< the St. Regis Hotel in New York, Wai Street on the day of the great marke’ crash, the wild frenzy of Arinistici Day, the parade of tho first contingem of soldiers up Fifth Avenue on thei: leturn from France, a pretentious bal at a Virginia country club and a Nev York cocktail party in which there ar< more than 30 speaking parts. In spit< of his panoramic splendor, the story of “Only Yesterday” is continually centred on the tragic love affair of Margaret Sullavan ami John Boles. A story of heartbreak and courage unsurpassed in screen history. TWO PICTURES AT MUNICIPAL WESTERN AND DRAMA Two features are being screened at tho Municipal Theatre. In the first Randolph Scott, Harry Carey, Noah Beery, Verna Hillie and Buster Crabbe play the leading roles in Zane Grey’s Paramount picture, “Man of the Forest.” Henry Hathaway, who has directed the past six picturisations of Zane Grey’s novels, also had charge of the megaphone on this production. There is action from start to finish in “Man of the Forest”—twofisted, red-blooded action of the type that Zane Grey fans have come to accept as a matter of course in his stories Scott, the “Man of the Forest.” is the central figure in the action. The picture was filmed in the country in which Grey originally set his story. The east, nil favourites of previous Westerns, spent manv weeks on the location Edmund Lowe and Nancy Carroll are eo-featnred in “I Love that Man,” which is the main attraction on the programme Robert Armstrong. Lew Cody, Warren H.ymer and Dorothy Burgess are prominently cast in supporting roles. Ihe story ol tho picture centres around Lowe, a confidence tnan who gets his greatest pleasure in parting the unwary from their money, and Miss Carroll, a girl of good background, who knows all about Lowe, but loves him nevertheless. She goes with him on bis profit-making tours of the country and. though they vary from wealth to poverty in ahours time, she sticks with him. tilts-

inately, he stumbles into legitimate business, and Nancy heaves a sigh of relief and delight. But it is too soon A couple of gangsters, with whom he was formerly associated, appear on the scene, anti at the point of guns, force the two to participate in a hazardous bank robbery. The film reaches a stirring climax in the events that follow.