AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERBODY’S PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT AND SATURDAY.

“FLORIDA SPECIAL.”

“Florida Special,” the new Paramount mystery-farce set aboard » speeding train, opens to-night at the Princess Theatre. Sally Filers and Jack •Oakie head a cast which includes Kent Taylor, Sam (Schlepperman) Hearn, Fiances Drake, J. Farrell MacDonald, Claude Filling water, Sidney Blackmer and many others. Gillingwater is a millionaire aboard a streamlined . dyer bound for the south. His secretary carries a fortune in jewel, s with him. Crooks, learning of the possible haul, follow them on the same train. The fun starts when Jack Oakie, a newspaper reporter, accompanying Kent Taylor, a handsome millionaire playboy on his way South to forget a love, affair, breaks into the plot and frustrates it. Sally Filers, as the hostess on the train, helps Taylor forget his troubles and they fall 'in love. Oakie gets the scoop of the year on the attempted jewel robbery. The manner in which the crooks are captured by the police who meet them at the station with a brass hand, ends an exciting, fast-xr.oving film.

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TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!

“WEDDING PRESENT.”

Joan Bennett and Cary Grant are co-starred in Paramount’s comedyromance, “ tfedding Present,” which has its final screening at the Regent Theatre to-night. The picture is based on a hilarious Saturday Fvening Post story by Paul Gallico, and was produced for Paramount by F. P. Sehulberg, with Richard Wallace as director. A .hard-boiled city editor, a visiting Archduke, a New York gangster'and his thick-skulled stooge, a writer of inspirational novels, a German “Schnitzelbank” band and a staff of wise-crack-ing newspaper people, keep the yarn moving at a fast rate. Heading the supporting cast are such screen favourites as. George Bancroft, Conrad Nagel, Gene Lockhart, Inez Courtney, Edward Brophy and Damon Ford. The “Wedding Present” which Grant plans for Miss Bennett when she leaves him to marry the novelist provides the picture’s climax and title. It is such a startling present and so well-timed that it results in a reconciliation or Grant with Miss Bennett at the final fade-out. Good supports will also be shown. ;

SATURDAY, MiATINEE, EVENING,

AND MONDAY.

“THE PRINCESS COMES ACROSS”

'■“My Concertina,” new hit;;tune by Jack Scholl and Phil. Boutelje, is introduced by Fred McMurray , in his new comedy-romance with Carole Lombard, “The Princess Comes Across/’ a Paramount Picture opening at the Regent;Theatre to-morrow. The song mark s the first time Mac Murray’s singing voice has hen heard in motion pictures! Cast as a concertina-playing orchestra leader, lie/ serenades Mia® Lombard wish the tune shortly after the pair met aboard a, trans-Atlantio liner. Miss Lombard appears as a Brooklyn girl posing as a Swedish princess. Fast comedy and a double murder mystery keep the story at rapid pace.: Paramount. Associate 'shorts nows,' spotlight, pictorial, “Shorty goes to the Seashore”, coloured Coronation film.

Exclusively' 20th Century Fox offers you these historic pictures which show, as no mere black and white print could, all the colourful pagentry, the glorious pomp, and withal, , the dignity of the crowning of a King of England. It. would be impossible to conceive any greater impression • • of the e tranquil peace and dominent power of the British Emoire than is conveyed, in the Technicolour reel of this Coronation film.