AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT, SATURDAY-MATINEE

AND NIGHT

“ROAMING LADY.”

Aii adventure-romance that moves at a thrilling tempo from San Francisco to a rebel camp in bandit-ridden China, will provide the screen fare at the Princess Theatre starting to-night. The film is Columbia’s “Roaming Lady,” with Fay Wray and Ralph Bellamy featured in the leading roles. The film is based on a magazine by Diana Bourbon and Bruce Manning. Miss Wray is seen as a blue-blood deb in love with Bellamy, lit order to separate them, the girl’s father details the young pilot to a special assignment in China to protect the company’s oil fields against bandit raids. The girl follows Bellamy there, and soon involves them both in a. series of hair-raising adventures. The battle scenes are particularly thrilling. Feroeiou s Chinese rebels and two daring air pilots wage a battle of arms ami wits. The young men’s wits give them the decision, and Bellamy, in addition, wins the girl. But this is only a small portion of the thrills that are crammed into this gripping story. Fay Wray and Ralph Bellamy make an ideal team. Featured prominently in the supporting cast are Edward Gargan, Thurston Hall, Paul Giulfoyro, Roger Tmhoff and Arthur Rankin. Also a good variety of supports. REGENT THEATRE. TO-NIGHT, FINAL SESSION. DOUBLE STAR PROGRAMME. "HOP-A-J.ONG CASSIDY" AND "YELLOWSTONE.” For years one of fiction’s favourite cowboys, “Hopalong Cassidy”, written by Clarence E. Mulford, makes its screen debut at tlie Regent Theatre to-night as a Paramount picture. With Boyd are Jimmy Ellison, Paula Stone, Charles Middleton, Robert Warwick. Frank McGlvnn, George Hayes and Willie Fung. “Hopalong Cassidy” deals with the early dav s of the West, forty or fifty years ago, in the days when the open range, cattle barons, rustlers and the six-gun was the law. The second star attraction is “Yellowstone” Universal’s mystery melodrama framed by the natural scenic 1 wonders of the famous American national park. Tn these magnificent surroundings is unfolded the story of “Yellowstone.” a tale of mystery and intrigue. Bandits of 20 years ago return to the park to match their wits with tho racketeers of a present generation, in a hunt for hidden treasure. Involved in the plot is a beautiful girl who seeks to discover the murderer of her father, only to find herself in love with the forest ranger suspected of the crime. The east includes Henry Hunter, Judith Barrett, Ralph Morgaln, Alan Hale, Michael Coring, Andy Devine, Rollo Lloyd, Monroe Owsley, Paul Fix,, Raymond Hatton, Mary Gordon, Claude Allister and Russell Wade. Incidentally, the production ha s a splendid musical score.

SATURDAY. MATINEE AND EVEN ING AND MONDAY

“THE BIG BROADCAST OF 1936.”

Rarely has such a diversified and imposing array of stnr s from the radio, and screen been assembled in one picture as in Paramount’s “The Big of 1936,” which comes tomorrow to the Regent Theatre, with Jack Oakic, Burns and Allen and Lyda Rohorti in the leading roles. In addition to the regular cast that appears in tho fun-provoking comedy are famous personalities who contribute specialty iumbers which form a background to the main theme. Bing Crosby, film and radio star.~\mos ’n’ Andy, world famous for their daily comic black-face sketch on the air waves, Ethel Merman, star of radio and musical comedy hits. Bill Robinson, negro tap dancer, Mary Boland and Charles Buggies, noted comoddians, the Nicholas Brothers, negro dancing youngsters. Willie. West and McGinty, and Ray Noble, English band leader and song writer with hi s orchestra, all linvfi important roles in tho picture. Excellent supports include Grantlaud Rice Sportlight and Popeye cartoon