AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY'® PICTURES. TO-NIGHT, FINALLY. “GAMBLING SHIP.“ * Racketeering methods of powerful .gamming rings are dramatically disclosed in Universal s topical production, “Gambling Ship,’’ with Robert Wilcox and Helen Mack, now playing at the .Princess 'ineat-re. Wilcox appears as an j undercover man massed as a gangster, while Miss Mack portrays an entrepreneur of the gambling racket he hah beeiT assigned to investigate. - Romance ; of the pair that is interwoven- with- ,; tho' gmig.and expose is complicated by thm series of liiisnnderstandihgs rising 1 but of his double identity. Supporting' roles are played by ltd. Uropny ( as “Innocent’’, comedy gunman; Joseph Sawyer, ail ex-prize-fighter and captain of the gambling ship; Irving Richel, erudite chief of a crooked gaming ring, who pilots racketeering coups mathematically. Aubrey Scotto directed from the screenplay by Alex Gottlieb and the story by G. Oarleton Brown and Eman - uel Manheim. Irving Starr, producer of Universal’s “Crime Oiub’’ series was in charge of the production.

COMMENCING WEDNESDAY. “RACKET BUSTERS.’’ This grim and exciting film lays hare all the horrible consequences that can follow from the spineless surrender of the citizens of any community to the ' ruthless and rapacious operations of a j racket leader. The cast includes Humphrey Bogart, George Brent > Gloria Dickson, Allen Jenkins. RECENT THEATRE. TO-NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. “STRAIGHT, PLACE AND SHOW.” Following his two-gunned, two fisted roles in several recent horse operas, Richard Arlen steps to the diamond horseshoe of equine entertainment with a romantic role in Damon Runyon’s “Straight, Place and Show,” the Ritz Brothers’ latest comedy. The handsome Richard plays the apex of an attractive triangle—Ethel Merman keeps singing her songs to Dick and they keep reminding him of Phyllis' Brooks! As if this didn’t complicate matters enough, the daffy Ritzes take charge of the romance and things soon get completely out of hand. Dick found his greatest change in that he had to hate horses for the ' new role. He is engaged to Phyllis j Brooks, who is such a rabid horse-fan-1 cier that Dick plays second-fiddle to her ! stable pc-ts. Exasperated by this state of affairs he offers his fiancee a wager. If her favourite mount, Playboy, wins no races within three months she must give up horses. If she does wih,- thou, says Dick, “I will build a stable off j the bedroom!” Playboy loses; and luiej is where the Rirzes come in. Dick pro- I sents the horse to them and the fun he- y gins.. The film opens at the Regent Theatre to-night.