THE TALKIES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2806, 27 November 1931, Page 5

THE TALKIES.

AURORA THEATRE. THE BAT WHISPERS. “The Bat Whispers,” to be screened Saturday and Monday, will bring shouts from the audience at the Aurora Theatre, not to mention screams from the ladies and gasps from the men. With Chester Morris in the ■ featured role, Rolancl West, producerdirector for United Artists, has contributed the most startling hour and a half of film entertainment of the year. Each of the superb cast of players is under suspicion at various times as the dare-devil criminal who holds a city in terror. And not until the last minute is the secret of his identity disclosed. The climax is the most surprising bit of drama West has ever developed in his long list of successful productions. Those who take part in the rapidfire comedy mystery include Una Merkel, Gustav Von Scyffertitz, Grayce Hampton, Maude Hampton, Charles Dow Clark, Spencer Charters, Richard Tucker, William Bakewell, Ben Bard. S. E. Jennings and Hugh Huntley. TURUA HALL. SO THIS IS LONDON. “So this is London,” to be screened at the Turua Hall on Saturday night, portrays Will Rogers in the role of a wealthy mill owner of Texas, who is urged by his wife and son tc make a trip to ! England for the purpose of purchasing a cotton mill there. They accompany him. Rogers is a thoroughbred Texan, with a keen dislike of anything British, or savouring of England. On ship board his son finds a romance with a i oung English girl, and that, of course brings chaos. After a series of hilarious scenes, Rogers eventually purchases the mill, straightens out his son’s love affairs, and decides that the Britons are pretty good folks after all. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2. ' SPLINTERS. “Splinters,” the excellent British comedy, with an all British cast, will be screened on Wednesday next (election night), December 2nd. There is not a dull moment in the whole show. It is wholesome, clean, 'good entertainment, with an abundance of real comedy. The revue turns are . clever, the beauty chorus something to be marvelled at, and the leading lady one of the most charming creatures who ever stepped on the screen.