AMUSEMENTS
EVERYBODY’S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. TO-NIGHT. "BOULDER DAM.” “Boulder Dam,” a Warner Bros, production heralded as, a drama of thrilling action, heroic deeds and glamorous romance, will be the star attraction at the Princess Theatre to-night. The picture is based on Don M. Teniplin’s story of the building of this mighty project, and the lives of the daredevel workmen who blasted their way through solid rock and scaled the walls hundreds of feet above the river is painted in the picture in colourful detail. The picture Js enlivened by song numbers written by the famous team of Mort Dixon and Allie Wrubel and sung by Patricia Ellis. Ross Alexander portrays a shirking, disgruntled mechanic in a miclWest garage. In a fist fight with his boss, the latter is killed by a fall, and the mechanio flees. He lands at Las Vegas, where the dam was being built. In a dance hall and cafe lie is about to be ejected as a tramp when Patricia Ellis, in the role of a singer intervenes, buys him food and takes him to her home where he is welcomed by her kindly father. The mechanic goes to work and save the lives of many of his fellows at the risk of his own. There is a strong supporting cast.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1937, Page 3
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