AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 November 1936, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

PRINCESS THEATRE.

TO-NIGHT. TO-NIGHT. “DANGEROUS.”

A picture that is said to give Bette Davis an even greater opportunity to

display her rare dramatic genius that did ‘‘Of Human Bondage” or “Bordertown” has been booked for the ±Tmeess Theatre to-night. The picture is the Warner Bros, drama “Dangerous,” in which Miss Davis is supported by Franchot tone, who has the leading masculine role, and Margaret Lindsay, again her rival in love. “Dangerous”, which has been hailed as a masterpiece

wherever it has been produced, is sheer, stark drama, featuring both the glam our and the shadows of .Broadway life. It is the story of the most brilliant actress of. her day, who was loved by many, but who loved only her own career and who sacrificed everything and everybody to her ambitions. Then, a fallen idol, she becomes an object, of scorn, sodden with drink, and pitied even by those she had ruined. For once she sees herself as she is, and she makes a supreme sacrifice in one or the most unusual and startling climaxes. Alison Skipworth, the famous character actress of both stage and screen, has the role of the housekeeper for Franchot Tone, who cares for the actress during her recuperative stage at the country home. John Eldredge is the husband whom the actress hail ruined and cast aside, and Dick Foran plays the part of a society man add friend of the architect and his- fiancee. Others in, .the cast include Walter Walker, llichard Carle, George Irving, Pierre Watkin, Douglas Wood, and William Davidson

REGENT THEATRE.

FINAL SCREENING TO-NIGHT! “THE INVISIBLE RAY ”

Few motion pictures of the current season have proven so genuinely . inter-, esting as “The Invisible tin Universal drama which opened an en gagement of two days at the Regent Theatre yesterday. Karloff and Bela Lugosi, two of the screen’s most sin jster individuals, are co-starred in this unusual screenplay, . and are the foca points of a story in which they art bitter enemies.. Both are scientists, but Karloff has struck out into unexplored fields; and before the camera art seen' a ’mpnber of his advanced .experi - ments which are literally awe-inspirirn and startlingly picturesque. Never be fore has the screen shown such specta cular accomplishments in the scientific world, and all are filled with intense interest. Others in the cast of this, strftnge sfory who do good work aw Frances Drake, Frank Lawton, Beulal Bondi, Walter Kingsford and’ Violet Kemble Cooper. From a production standpoint the film is unusual, and irn pressive ' backgrounds are shown-in- the Carpathian mountains, in Africa and in Paris. “The Invisible Ray” will in terest you and thrill you mightily.

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. “THE TUNNEL.” “The Tunnel” is a picture posses ing all the qualities'that make for sue cessful entertainment. The story is human and dramatic; the theme vision ary in the immensity of the task; th settings magnificent in their scope: th production spectacular and amazingthe acting flawless in every respect The cast includes England’s and America’s leading plavers. Rickard Dix, Res]ie Banks. Madge Evans, Helen Vinson, C. Aubrey Simth. Basil Sydney, George . Arliss and Walter Huston. “The Tunnel” is really big.