ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 7, 7 December 1936, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAYFAIR THEATRE. “ACCUSED.” “Accused,” screening to-day at the Maylair Theatre, is the second picture to bo produced by the new Criterion Company following their successful film, “The Amateur Gentleman.” Gaby played by Dolores Del Rio, and Tony, played by Douglas Fairbanks, junr., husband and ' wife in a danco set, are booked to appear in a revue at the Alhambra Theatre, Paris, by Morel, a famous impresario. Yvette Delangc, the loading lady, Morel's mistress, falls for Tony, but when he rejects her advances she deliberately ruins their acting during rehearsals. Morel implores Tony to play up to Yvette for the sake of the good will of the. company as a whole, and ho reluctantly agrees to visit her flat. Hi 6 decision provokes the jealousy of Gaby, and she threatens to kill Yvette. On leaving the theatre Tony directs a shabbily-dressed man to Yvette’s dressing room and then makes for her apartment. She docs not turn up, however, , and later it is announced that she has been murdered. Gaby is arrested, and Tony hunts feverishly for the shabby man, the only person whose testimony is likely to save her. Just as Gnbv’s trial is about to draw to a painful conclusion ho is found, and his evidence enables Gaby’s counsel to reconstruct the crime swiftly and denounce the real murderer. Gaby is released and all ends well. The preliminaries in the film arc devoted to musical spectacle. The actual crime is perpetrated in circumstances that keep one guessing, and the mystery is carefully preserved in an atmosphere of tense suspense until tlie conclusion of the spectacular court sequence KOSY THEATRE. “BOULDER DAM.” “Boulder Dam,” a Warner Bros, production heralded as a drama of thrilling action, -heroic deeds and glamorous romance, is scheduled as the feature attraction at the Ivosy Theatre to-day. The picture is based on Don. M. JLoinplin’s story of the building of this mighty project, and tile lives ol the daredevil workmen who blasted their way though solid rock and sealed the walls hundreds of feet above the river is painted in the picture in colourful detail. Death faced these dynamic workers at every turn, and many of tliir deeds of heroism, depicted in this film will go down in the history of this great undertaking. The picture is enlivened by song numbers written by the famous team ot Mort Dixon and Allie Wrubcl and sung by i’atricia Ellis. Ross Alexander portrays a shirking, disgruntled mechanic in a mid-Wcst garage. In a fist fight with his boss, the latter is killed by a fall, and the mechanic flees. He lands at Las Vegas, where t-ho du.in was being built. In a dance had and cafe he is about to be ejected as a tramp when Patricia Ellis, in the role of a singer at the club, intervenes, buys him food and takes him to her home where is is welcomed by her kindly father. The mechanic goes to work and saves the lives of many of his fellows at the risk of Ins own. Lyle Talbot, in the “heavy” role, is m love with the girl and also knows of Ins successful rival’s past, lie gives Ross " hours to quit the town, but oil that last day an incident occurs which changes trie whole aspect of the situation and brings the picture to a close in a smashing climax. . , - The supporting picture is lighting , Shadows” with Tim McCoy in the principal role