AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

PICTURES, TO-NIGHT. . to-night. “CRASHING HOLLYWOOD.” The romance between Lee Tracy and Joan Woodbury shares equal interest with a novel crook theme in “Crashing Hollywood,” RKO Radio comedy drama. Tracy is seen a s a-, scenario writer while,.Miss Woodbury appears as an aspiring a,ctress. Complications uevelop when Tracy unknowingly forms a collaborating partnership with an exconvict and writes the story of a famous bank robbery so authentically that Miss Woodbury becomes, convinced that'.he must -have been a participant in the crime. Matters are .straightened out until.i the president of .the burglarised bank and the actual hold-up men descend on the studio to -find out just how much Tracy does know about the robbery. The large east of popular stars, and the featured players include Paul Guilfoyle, Bradley Page and Lee Patrick.. 1

Also “Soil g of the Forge” starring Stanley Ilollaway with Laurence Cros-‘ smith, and Eleanor Fay re.

COMMENCING WEDNESDAY “THE BRIDE WORE RED.” i ' Joan Crawford’s latest starring vehicle, “The Bride Wore Red,” comes to the Princess Theatre on ’V'Vn-sday. Franchot Tone and Robert Young are her leading men in the new picture. The, story of a woman’s struggle to find happiness in -the lowly surroundings of her birth, it offers Joan her nn, est dramatic role. Deeply huihan inj theme, “The Bride Wore Red” has the recklessness and colour of the waterfront as a background. Miss Crawford plays the part of a poor girl, who, for a few weeks, on. the whim of an old man, is given the means to . tra,vel in high society. She,' lays the foundation for her future on 1 a house of happiness hui-lt on lies during her month of makebelieve;