AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 210, 18 August 1934, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE, HASTINGS. A GRIPPING DRAMA. “Miss Fane’s Baby Is Stolen” is one ot the most intensely gripping dramas that have been brought to the screen. It. has a story that strikes at the very hearts ol women. It gives Dorothea Wieck opportunity for powerful emotional scenes winch, as you can imagine, she performs in a thrilling fashion. Also in this picture, which opened at the Regent Theatre to-day, is Baby Leßoy, Paramount s infant star, who is supporting Dorothea Wieck and Alice Brady. Leßoy, who has appeared in tour previous pictures during the past year, has every action ot his photographed by a motion picture camera. He has been sketched by famous artists, -nd now A. V. Louis, British sculptor, lias written to the baby’s mother from London, asking permission to do the baby’s figure in stone. The picture is full of interest from start to finish and cannot fail to appeal. The supporting films have been well chosen, and altogether the programme is an outstanding one. STATE THEATRE, HASTINGS. REAL JUNGLE THRILLS “Wild Cargo” is the picture that the State will show to-night, and apart from being of absorbing interest to the general public it is the best of fare for the children. The Malayan jungle was the scene of a most unique episode in the filming of “Wild Cargo.” The incident involved tho capture of a beautiful leopard in a manner unparalleled, for its adroitness. Leopards are usually caught with large steel nets, after being lured in with live bait. However, the rare clouded leopard obtained for the noted wild animal collector's current “Wild Cargo” was made to nose-dive into a net, not walk into it. Frank Buck, on his expeditions, carries a high-powered rifle, loaded with mushroom-tipped bullets; not to slav animals, but for protection in an emergency. The bullets happened to be perfect for the task at hand, which was to dislodge the leopard without wounding it. For the animal was found in a tree, out on a limb. And there it would stay until brought down. The native crew was instructed to spread the net under the tree. Thereupon, Buck took his rifle and started a systematic target practice against the branch on which the animal was crouching. The first bullet nicked the branch behind the leopard ’s body. The second cut it more. With a warning to the boys to be ready to advance and fold the net over their prey, Buck shot again and again. The branch parted and down came the leopard. A quick rush by the boys, and the steel links of the net were lapped over its frantic form.

COSY THEATRE “GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933.” 4 new type of film drama! That is what has been created by Director Mervyn Leßoy in the Warner Bros production of “Gold Diggers of 1933,” which opens at the Cosy Theatre tonight. This type of picture had its forerunner in “42nd. Street,” but “Gold Diggers’’ is said to entirely eclipse it in the sheer force of its drama, in comedy situations, its catchy song hits and the novelty and beauty of its gigantic and spectacular dance ensembles. Leßoy has succeeded in knitting a musical comedy spectacle with the powerful drama of Avery Hopwood's play so closely every number and every bit of action co-ordin-ates a show within a show but an essential part of it. It is musical drama on such a scale as never before attempted. The production carries an allstar cast which includes Warren William, Joan Biondell, Aline MacMahqn, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks and Ginger Rogers. Two hundred chorus girls are a part of the elaborate, mobile sets, lhe brilliant new dance and song conceptions were created, and staged by the famous musical comedy producer, Bushy Berkeley. The music and lyrics aro by the famous team of Harry Warren and Al Dubin, who wrote the song hits in “42nd Street.” ARCADIA THEATRE. WILL ROGERS IN “DAVID HARUM.” The film that thousands upon thousands oi people have asked Will Rogers to make comes to the Arcadia Theatre to-night. It is “David Harum,” and has the famous star in what is the most fitting role of his entire career. Presenting the character of the shrewd horse-trader with a heart that alternates between cold steel and gold, Rogers is said never to have been better. Every facet in the makeup of this famous character of literature is given full play by America’s foremost humor-ist-philosopher. He fairly glories in the role. It is a film that has the elements that will find a response in the heart of every spectator. The screen play, following closely tho typically American theme of the novel, concerns itself with the life of a shrewd and ruthless horse-trainer. His dealings with the people in tho small town in which he lives aro cold-hearted and unethical. But a young man who is employed as a teller in the bank owned by the horse-trader, learns of his concealed sympathy for the poor, and realises that underneath his hard crust he really has a soft heart.