AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 156, 17 June 1936, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS

COSY THEATRE "MARY BURNS, FUGITIVE" "Mary Burns, Fugitive,” now at tho Cosy, traces the tragic experiences ot a girl caught by the law through an innocent friendship with a man she did not know was a public enemy. Convicted, she gets a prison sentence, but breaks gaol, a girl fugitive hunted by the law. She falls in love with a scientist, but her former sweetheart gangster pursues her relentlessly. A .series of dramatic episodes follows the girl until a thrilling climax brings the picture to an exciting finale. Sylvia Sydney, Melvyn Douglas, Alan Baxter, Pert Kelton, Wallace Ford and Brian Donlevy are in the cast. The supports include "Sport on the Range,” a Pete Smith picture with Western influence, including the song “Home on the Range.” STATE THEATRE "SHOW THEM NO MERCY” In" Show Them No Mercy I” the 20th. Century thriller which opens today at the State Theatre, Darryl F. Zanuck has managed to catch a new slant on pictures which deal with the war against crime. Violence, emotional drama, spontaneous humour and romance are tightly packed in the speedy sequences of this picture which reveals the underworld terror in America’s fight to wipe it out. The plot of "Show Them No Mercy I” carries Rochelle Hudson and Edward Norris, two innocent young people with their baby, into the hideout of the gang. REGENT THEATRE "PUBLIC NUISANCE No. 1” Frances Day, one of Britain’s most famous cabaret singers, lias the leading part in "Public Nuisance No. 1”, now at the Regent Theatre, Arthur Riscoe supports her in the comedy. The play is practically without plot, but is crammed full of irresponsible foolery of the type that these two stars have made so popular on the British stage. Clowning, dancing and singing follow each other in a ..md whirl. The plot, such a.s it is, revolves around a girl who helps her lover to empty a rival hotel and bring all the customers to his own. Among the supporting, artists is Claude Dampier whom Hastings audiences will remember from some years ago when he used to appear in vaudeville as a country yokel mid also in a side-splitting piauu-tuner act. MUNICIPAL THEATRE DRAMA ANO BUSTER KEATON .Notably in brilliauiu ol perluliifanres and sheer pictorial beauty, "'I he Stranger's Return,’’ filmed from the new I’hil Stung novel ol tarm lile, screens to-night at the Municipal Theatre with Lionel Barrymore and Miriam Hopkins co-starred in the leading roles. Directed by King Vidor the Metro-Golrlwyn Mayer picture achieves masterful sweep in dramalu power against a farm backgiound that lends realism to the gripping ston ac l ion • The second attraction "ill he 'Whal ■ No Beer I”’ starring Buster Keaton This is a full length picture in tho best Keaton manner with Phyllis Barry and Roscoe Ates in support