AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1940, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT FINALLY. “THE. GAUNT STRANG,ERA’ ! “The Gaunt Stranger,” to-lfight’s attraction at the Princess is a thrill-teeming story of a .master criminal's vengeance on a crooked- 1 ' laWyer for the betrayal of his -sisterm Adapted from “The Ringer,’” one of the : most popular of all Edgar AV‘aHace i? i : i6\lels, “The Ga unt Stranger” provides” Stirring entertainment literally' 'flacked with mystery and suspense. Tlip’ tale

turns on the threat of a siljipOscjdly dead killer; ‘The Ringer’’ - to : riiui|der the unscrupulous lawyer, MbHtffi'v On being called in, the politic barricade the house and throw cordons round The > entire property—yet at the predicted llour Meister is killed in baflliim 'circumstances. No praise can be too jjigli for the expert manner in which the tension is built up to Meister’s hour of doom, or for the gripping suspense in those last few moments., , ; n , Also Bob Hope and Shirley Ross' in ’’Thanks for the Memory’’, a .Paramount production. iU : , >-a "< a ■ 1 i COMMENCING WEDNESQAY.i “BLACKMAIL.” j\ ; ; ; ■ Edward G. Robinson, whose . killer I roles in gangster pictures aroused a ( national public consciousness against the evil, comes to the Princess Theatrb on Wednesday in “Blackmail.” flu the new drama Robinson is:sent to prison for a crime be did not commit es'cfipcs,.. sots up a- new life under an assumed name and is later betrayed into the hands of the law by a former shipmate who had wormed his way into his confidence. How justice is finally meted out in a towering oil well fire forms the climax of one of the year’s super-thril-Jer. Ruth Hussey plays 'the feminine load as Robinson’s wife and other featured parts are filled by Gene Lockhart, Bobs Watson and Guinn Williams.