AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 96, 6 April 1934, Page 11

AMUSEMENTS

FLYING PICTURE AT COSY. “THE KING’S CUP.” Ono of the most interesting iilms 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 reniaraable picture will be shown finally al the Cosy to-night. The productioi 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 outlientie scenes of the King’s Cup Air Derby, British and Dominions Corporation actually filmed the race when it took place. “NIGHT FLIGHT” TO-MORROW There is a thrill, a verve, an authenticity to “Night Flight,” M-G-M’s championship picture, which opens tomorrow at the Cosy Theatre, which makes it a definite forward achieve ment in the realm of aviation pictures. The story, by a flyer, Antoine de SaintExupery, tells grippingly of incidents in the running of a big air mail company for which the author flew for several years. It has been put on the screen with complete .ympathy and ac curacy by a director-flyer, Clarence Brown. The tale concerns John Barrymore, an air mail company manager, whose creed is that the mail must go through; Robert Montgomery, the pilot on the trans-Andcan run; Clark Gable, shooting northwards through a terrific storm from Patagonia, and Helen Hayes, Gable’s worry-distracted wife. Subordinate plots bring out excellent work from Myrna Loy, William Gargan, C. Lenry Gordon, Leslie Fenton and others. Lionel Barrymore, as the shiftless, easy-going inspector of planes, is a perfect comedy foil to his stern brother. DRAMA AT ARCADIA. “CHANNEL CROSSING.” “Channel Crossing,” a GaumontBritish picture, directed by Milton Hosmer from a story by Angus MacPhail and W. P. Lipscombe, will be screened finally at the Arcadia tn night. 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 Buslieil 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. CLARA BOW IN “HOOPLA.” Clara Bow conies to the Arcadia tomorrow in her second starring picture for Fox Film, “Hoopla.” The background of the story is a country carnival, and it presents Miss Bow with a new type of environment. Against its ever-changing nature, she otters what has been heralded as her most important role on the screen. She plays the part of a carnival dancer who sets out to win the love of a. young man worlds removed from carnival life. She starts on her venture as the result of a wager, but finds herself enmeshed in a romance that is entirely strange to her. It has a wholesomeness and a sincerity with which she is wholly unfamiliar. It is the method in which this experienced woman works out her life to encompass a simple love that provides Clara Bow with what is reporter! as the perfect vehicle. NO PICTURES AT MUNICIPAL MARY PICKFORD TO-MORROW Owing to the Municipal Theatre being engaged no pictures will be screened there this evening. Surrounded by one of the largest casts in her long career and directed by Frank Borzage, twice Academy winner, Mary Pickford comes to the Municipal Theatre to-morrow in “Secrets,” an adaptation of the celebrated stage play by Rudolf Beiscr and May Edgington. According to advance reports, motion picture fans will see the star in one of the best pictures she has made. “Secrets” gives Miss Pickford what she believes is an ideal vehicle. In the first place, it is “motion picture” from beginning to end, and in the second place the story is a simple one ot love and elemental emotions, with no wise-cracking and no sophistication. There’s an elopement to foil a rich father who wants his daughter to wed a titled Englishman instead of a poor clerk; a young couple battling the. hardships of western ranch life; buttle-, with cattle-rustlers; the rearing of a family; eventual prosperity, clouded by the husband’s affair with another woman; a loyal, devoted wife who refuses to let threatened scandal wreck their happiness. Playing opposite Miss Pickford is the English actor, Leslie Howard, who will be remembered for many "ne interpretations in the picture world. The role of John Carlton, cattle rancher, is a departure for Leslie Howard, who has risen to screen heights in pictures such as “Outward Bound,” “A Free Soul,” and “Smilin’ Through.” and it was because lie was so eager to play an American westerner opposite Miss Pickford that he cancelled a long-plan ned voyage to bis native land.