TOWN HALL TALKIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 4740, 20 January 1937, Page 2

TOWN HALL TALKIES.

“SYLVIA SCARLETT.” Entertainment for entertainment’s sake is brought to the screen in Katherine Hepburn’s latest picture, “Sylvia Scarlett,” to be shown at the Town Hall thi9 evening. Unique among dramas in that it introduces a new theme, it tells a thrilling story of stirring adventure; of a girl masquerading as a boy to dodge the police, only to fall in with a more dangerous band of rogues, from whom she hides by becoming a girl again. Nevertheless, romance ' follows relentlessly in her footsteps so that when eventually she does arrive in gaol her incarceration is brief compared with the life sentence ,she receives on her wedding day.

To-morrow night Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich will be seen in “Desire,” an exhilerating, fastmoving, romantic drama of a wealthy young man and an expert girl jewel thief. However, retribution takes place and side by side, the thief and her victim face the world together.

WEEK-END PICTURES. Leslie Howard and Bette Davis appear as the principals i n “The Petrified Forest,” showing on Fidday evening. Also in the cast are Genevieve Tobin and Dick Forau, both of whom are stars in their own right. The plot is built around a service station, situated in the desert and tells of a desert girl, a killer bandit, and a disillusioned author. There is action and romance aplenty. It is a very unusual pie-\ ture which will give to all those desiring “difference” full satisfaction and in addition it carries that tense absorbing drama which conveys to A others all the excitement of terror thrills.

On Saturday night Preston Foster and Jane Wyatt will be seen in “We’re Only Human,” which strikv es an entirely new note in detective stories —one in fact which undoubtedly will be greatly liked and remembered for a long time. Briefly, it tells how a man recovers his courage after he has lost his nerve, and opens up an irresistible train of thought as to the real meaning of fear and courage. A picture full of action, which everyone should see. Also coloured cartoon, comedy, News, etc.