AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 95, 5 April 1934, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

FLYING PICTURE AT COSY. "THE KING’S CUP." One of the most interesting films to be made last year by British and Dominions Films Ltd. was "The King’s Cup," which is the first film to be made dealing with the activities of British flying clubs. This remarkable picture will be shown at the Cosy Theatre to-morrow. The production took thirteen months to make and cost about £40,000, and is based on a story by Sir Alan Cobham, himself a King’s Cup winner, and carries a guarantee of complete authenticity in its attempt to present a record of civil aviation in Great Britain. In order to present outhentic scenes of the King’s Cup Air Derbt, British and Dominions Corporation actually filmed the race when it took place. In addition, two ’planes which figure in the picture were entered for the event. One, a Puss Moth, was entered by its owner, Lieut.-Commander Geoffrey Rodd. who flew it. The other, a Hawker Tom-Tit, was entered by Herbert Wilcox, director of production for British and Dominions. This ’plane was navigated bv Harry Milton, an exmember of the R.A.F., who plays the leading role in the picture. The latter’s wife. Dorothy Bouchier, plays opposite him. The fact that the King’s Cup is raced round Great Britain ensures that the film has great scenic scope, while pains were taken to secure extremely thrilling air sequences. ENGLISH COMEDY AT MUNICIPAL "HIS GRACE GIVES NOTICE." A typically English comedy dealing with the consternation following the discovery of a Duke working as a footman is offered at the Municipal Theatre, when "His Grace Gives Notice" plays there to night. In this comedy-drama George, the footman in the employ of Lord Kannoek, perplexes the "kitchen’ because he seems to lack the humility becoming to a gentleman’s servant. In fact he so far forgets his position as to hang up a photograph of the Hon. Barbara Bannock, his employer’s daughter. When he is reminded of his place he mentions the fact that anyone can procure sueh a photograph who has ghe shilling with which to

purchase the magazine from which it is cut. When George turns out to be the Duke of Marlow, a fact of which he himself was totally unaware, everything. is explained, but becomes even more trying. Try as George may he cannot prove to the servants that he is the same man as he was a day ago, calling them all by the Christian names. Meantime, Barbara, although attracted to the man, feels she cannot accept his attentions as a Duke which she refused when he was a footman. With the help of the valet he has acquired with his new title, George is the means of aiding Barbara when she falls into the hands of a product of American gangdom, and, the slate wiped clean, an engagement between the Duke of Marlow and the Hon. Barbara Rannock is all ready for announcement. Arthur Margetson plays the role of George, Duke of Marlow, with an admirable ra r straint and his characterisation rings true both ns a footman and later as the Duke of Marlow. S. Victor Stanley, Viola Keats, Dick Francis and 0. B. Clarance all add admirable support. DRAMA AT ARCADIA. "CHANNEL CROSSING ” "Channel Crossing,” a GaumontBritish picture, directed by Milton Rosmer from a story by Angus MacPhail and W. I’. Lipscombe, will be screened at the Arcadia Theatre tonight. The strong, dramatic story is interpreted by a carefully selected cast, headed by Matheson Lang, as a multi-millionaire financier, and Constance Cummings as his secretary. Anthony Bushed is her lover who is responsible for tragic happenings. Edmund Gwenn enjoys a feature role as a passenger —a Lancashire man of substance paying his first visit to France. Max Miller, really an actor but making believe that he is a commercial traveller, is another leading figure in in comedy scenes, clevery interspersed comedy scenes interspersed with the drama. Others in the east are Dorothy Dickson, Nigel Bruce, Douglas Jefferies, talented artists all. The story is of dramatic and tragic happen, ings on a cross-Channel run between Dover and Calais. The plot covers the failure of an international financier to overcome the consequences of an issue of false scrip and. at the same time, to face the tragedy of his rejection by the women he loves, and a tragedy deep ened by his realisation that she lover another.