ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 10 December 1936, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “BORDER FLIGHT.” The staccato rattle of machine-gun fire, the roar and whine of speeding ’planes “dog-fighting” high above the Tacifio, and - thrilling hand-to-hand battling of guardsmen and smugglers run through Paramount’s “Border Flight,” which screens to-day at the Kosy Theatre. The film telle a dramatic tale of high adventure and dangerous missions of the United States Coast Guard air corps. Officers of the air eorpe aided in tho filming. The crack-up of two ’planes and the pancake landing of a third which has lost its landing gear add to the thrills of the story. Two members of the corps, John Howard and Grant Withers, become rivals for the attentions of tho same girl, Frances Farmer. In the course of the story, one i 6 discharged from the service and joins a band of fur smugglers with which it has been fighting. The dramatic finish comes in a pitched battle of the forces of tho coast guard and the smugglers, closing in to hand-to-hand fight. Last breath-taking shot is of a power dive of a 'plane directly on to the smugglers’ ship, bringing the wreckage of both in an explosion. “Border Flight” sustains its pace as a top fight thriller and gives an insight into a little-known branch of Government service as well. “PALM SPRINGS.” Frances Langford portrays a pretty heiress whose heart is won by Smith Ballew, a guitar-plucking, torch-singing cowboy, in Walter Wanger’s “Palm Springs,” produced for Paramount and screening to-day at the Kosy Theatre. In the comedy 1< ranees discovers that her once wealthy father is penniless and she is forced to give up the man she loves to marry another wealthy enough to provide both for her and hoi parent. In the process of fortune hunting, she pretends to be an English noblewoman and almost succeeds in marrying a wealthy playboy when her devoted father discovers she is sacrificing hei’6clf to save him from poverty. Ho denounces her as an impostor, and frustrates the marriage, leaving Francos high and dry and husbandlcss. MAYFAIR THEATRE. “TO-DAY WE LIVE.” The first joint appearance in a talking film of Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper in “To-day We Live ” screening today at the Mayfair Theatre, is a happy ] event for movie-goers. For here is a pic- ; Lire which combines romance of a stir'ring order with a clean-cut, forceful. story of the war, with the emphasis laid on ; the part played by the commanders of ' the dangerous British tivo-man torpedo | boats, known as the “skeeter fleet.” Miss I Crawford, who seems to grow more ex- ' citing in appearance with each succeeding j vehicle, has a striking role as the aristocratic English girl who cannot stand reI liiaining at home whilst her brother and ' the two men who love her are at tho ] front. Franc-hot Tone, the brother, and Robort Young, the childhood sweetheart, are members of tho torpedo squad, while Gary Cooper, who is closest to her heart, enrols in the flying forces. In order to be near those three, Miss Crawford becomes a member of a British ambulance unit. Cooper is reported killed, and his unexpected return precipitates a stirring dramatic climax. 'I lie picture is brought to a smashing close when two men give up their lives in tho sinking of a ship in order to save Cooper for tho girl whom they all love. In “To-day We Live,” Miss Crawford offers what is probably the finest work of her entire career. J and she is ably seconded by Cooper, the scenes between those two rising to a new high level in the way of fervid romance.