ON THE SCREEN

Hutt News, Volume 11, Issue 12, 18 August 1937, Page 7

ON THE SCREEN

KING GEORGE AND PRINCE EDWARD THEATRES. "CRAIG'S WIFE" IS A TENSE, STIRRING AND DRAMATIC . One of the most dramatic, moving and intelligent stories to come to the screen in some time is "Craig's Wife," which, under the Columbia pennant, settles itself at the King George and Prince Edward Theatres. With Rosalind Russell in the title role, and John Boles as Craig, "Craig's Wife" will hold you transfixed from start to finish. Yes, Miss Russell, who has played only comedy roles on the screen heretofore, jousts with the difficult assignment of portraying tl'.j unsympathetic, relentless Harriet Cr:.:g, and emerges victorious on all courts. She gives a dramatic performance that will match any on the screen thi: year. And Boles is right t'-.'re with her. He is altogether convincing and temperamentally correct as t'.e husband who represents to Harric t Craig a mere foundation of the lioii: she has erected to her complete imlep: ndence of everybody and everything. Billie Burke, Jar.e Darwell, Dorothy Wilson, Alma Krug" r, Tho-mas Mitchell, Raymond Walbtirn, Wi.bert Allen and others join with Mi s Kussell and Boles in making "Craig's Wife" a picture you won't soon forget. All told, "Craig's \7ife" is a completely fascinating, finely produced film. The second big .feature is "MAN WHO LIViID TWICE." "The Man Who Lived Twice," a blood-chilling drama cf a killer resurrected and transformed into a reputable eminent surgeon, is the supporting feature. Ralph Bellamy appears in the title role with Mari;:.i Marsh, Isabel Jewell and Thurston iiall in the other principal parts. This sensational 'imvion picture steps one ahead ot ! science to dramatise the power of surgery to change completely a person's character, appearance and personality. The signifi.-ance of such a transformation possesses an interesting question. Is the man so transformed the same as the man who first submitted to the opeiation? "The Man Who Lived Twice" attempts to answer in the tense and dramatic story of Slick Rawley, a dangerous killer. GRACIE FIELDS IN ' 1 THE SHOW GOES ON,'' GAY MUSICAL COMEDY. Mr. S. Y. Greisman, Australian representative of Associated Talking' Pictures of Ealing, London, recently received a cable advice that the new Grades Eields .production, "The Show Goes On," was to be released in England and other parts of the Empire as a special Coronation attraction. The new picture, which somewhat reflects Grade's own life story, was a happy choice for this auspicious occasion, for the universally popular Grade has for many years been one of the Empire's greatest ambassadors of happiness, both in her profession and her great generosity in the worthy cause of charity. Cyril Ritehard, already well-known to Australian audiences, is also prominent in "The 'Show Goes On'' as Grade's accompanist pal ".iinimy"; Owen Nares scores as Martin Eraser; and John Stuart as Grade's home-town sweetheart. "The Show Goes On" is a sparkling musical comedy . . . bubbling o\er with laughter and happiness . . . while rising to still greater heights is a new Grade . . . greater . . . glamorous giving you songs the whole world will soon be singing, and which you can hear for yourself when "The Show Goes On" at the Prince Edward and King George Theatres next Saturday. The supporting feature at the King George Theatre is: "HOLLYWOOD COWBOY." George O'Brien, . the screen's Cotemost outdoor .-tar, returns in "Hollywood Cowboy," to the same type of Western role he popularised in his early successes. Although he played a famous pioneer and then a lumberjack in his two previous vehicles, O'Brien is cast as a happy-go-lucky, fast-riding cowbo\ in his current thriller. Cecilia Parker is his leading lady. The story deals with ■ exciting experiences of a Hollywood A\ estei nstar, played by O'Brien, who deserts the screen long enough to return to the cattle• country' and taste the life he loves; The supporting feature at the Prince Edward Theatre is: "DANCE BAND."

DE LUXE THEATRE. —.'<s»— WEDNESDAY. ".raw JOE E. BROWN FILM HIT AT 'a HE DE LUXE ON WEDNESDAY. Joe E. Brown, king o,f the laughmakers—comes to the De Luxe Theatre on Wednesday in his newest Warner Bros, comedy hit, "Polo Joe." Joe has been almost everything in the sport, world —prizo lighter, racer, circus clown, high juniper, bike rider, hoofer, acrobat—and now he iconics as a synthetic polo player. Again he portrays the meek soul who tries to cover his fright at his own limitations by insisting that they don't exist. He finds it necessary to pretend great prowess at 'polo, though he has never been on a horse, and gets fits of sneezing whenever he gets near one. As Joe Bolton, he returns to his home town and the welcoming arms of his rich and gushing Aunt Minnie after years in China. With him cpines his dead-pan valet, Hayward. Aunt Minnie's unansion is in the midst of a swanky ,polo-iplaying colony—and Joe at once falls head over heels in love with pretty Mary Hilton, who thinks no man can ibe a hero unless lie plays polo. To get out of his difficulty Joe pretends that he is a wow at it—and so is .forced to join the club. The supporting cast'includes Carol Hughes and Richard "Skeets" Gallagher. The second attraction is "WHITE DEATH." Zane Grey's romantic comedy drama, "White Death," the second attraction, is something brand-new in screen entertainment, presented to world audiences in a sun-kissed Paradise that is Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Although many of Zane Grey 's worldloved action stories have been translated to the "silent" and "talkie" screen,' the brilliant author had not starred in any film until he headed the cast, as "himself," in "White Death," and liis naturalness will win universal admiration. .SATURDAY. "GOLD DIGGERS OF 1937" IS HAILED AS THE BEST ONE OF THE SERIES. "Gold Diggers of 1937," latest in the famous scries of every-other-year musical comedies made by Warner Bros., opens at the De Luxe Theatre next Saturday, with Dick Powell and Joan Bloiulell, the newlvweds, as its stars. It has, like its predecessors, a lot of fast-stepping, lovely to look at dancing girls trained by Busby Berkeley (no less than of •'.hem this time), and is interspersed with new hit songs by Harold Arlcn and E. Y. Harburg, and Harry Warren and A 1 Dubin. Victor Moore, popular comedian of the New York musical comedy stage, helps support the Powell-Blend ell star combination. There is also Lee Dixon, noted eccentric dancer from Broadway, making his screen debut; a new and striking torch-singer named Rosalind Marquis, besides such familiar funmakers as Glenda i'arrcll, Osgood leikins, Olin Howland, Irene Ware and Charles D. Brown. The story, it is said, has to do with Powell, who has been a flop as a life insurance salesman, putting over a mil-lion-dollar policy on the life of Moore, who is a theatrical producer. Moore takes a fancy to the la# and makes him head of his dramatic ventures. The supporting feature is: "ISLE OF FURY." Lovers of primitive melodrama have a treat in store in the associate feature, "Isle of Fury," the Ibrilliant Warner Bros, .picturisation of Somerset Maugham's romance of the South Seas, "Three in Eden." The'hero cf: the thrilling story is Yal Stevens, a man of primitive instincts and a refugee from the clutches of the law, who has built up a profitable pearl fishery on a remote Pacific island —but is compelled to do battle for his beautiful young -bride against a polished man of the world, Erie Blake, whom he has rescued from a shipwreck and brought into his home as a .friend. The role of Val Stevens is played by Humphrey Bogart. Stevens, wanted for a crime he did not commit, is rich in pearls he cannot spend l , and an exile from civilisation. To his island hideaway a child is brought .by her scapegrace grandfather, and his drunken friend. She grows to beautiful womanhood and reluctantly marries Val. Margaret Lindsay plays the role.