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ENTERTAINMENTS

METEOR THEATRE. • “ANTHONY ADVERSE.” “Anthony Adverse” is the last word in_ magnificent screen entertainment. This Warner Bros, production at the Meteor Theatre holds audiences in a spell of breathless, suspense reel after reel. It is the vivid story of Hervev Allen’s monumental 'literary classic. The picture follows tho romantics adventures of Anthony Adverse through five countries, across tho seas and over three continents. The mammoth sots, for colourful and picturesque backgrounds, for dynamic action, for tho unusual characterisation of its tremendous cast from Frederic March, (he star, down to tho smallest hit player, for the glamour of its romance, its human interest and sheer, unadulterated entertainment, this picture is unsurpassed.' It has a tremendous cast, with 98 speaking part 6 and 2500 bit players and extras. But all this, while full of colour, is but the background for a drama of human life, its love and hates, its hopes and ~ its disappointments, its desires and its pa.sions, its vain and futile struttings and its vast achievements. Frederic March has given tho screen some wonderful portrayals in the past but; never bus he risen to the heights ol' dramatic fire as in the Title role of this picture. His Anthony is a living, breathing person, stepping out of a book into real life on the screen. He is ably supported by Olivia dc Havilland, who came to, screen prominence with her work in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and “Captain Blood.”

STATE THEATRE. “FLIGHT FROM GLORY.” A gripping drama of an aerial legion of lost men, “Flight from Glory,” - RKO Radio picture v with Chester Morris and Whitney Bourne in the leading roles, screens to-night at the State Theatre as exciting, suspense-laden entertainment. Unusually outstanding are tho powerful characterisations offered by the cast prin cipals and the novel story. Concerning tho harrowing experiences of a group ol renegade aviators engaged in flying condemned planes over the lofty peaks of the treacherous Andes, the exciting story attains unusual dramatic heights in it. vivid depiction of the reaction of those exiled men to a young girt whofti eir etimsfanees bring to tho remote South American settlement. The striking series of portrayals arc offered by Chester Morris. Miss Bourne, Onslow Slovens, Van Heflin. Dougins Walton. Rita La Roy and other capable players, Morris is cast as a hard-boiled chief pilot who falls in love with Miss Bourne when she and her flier husband come to the air base. Onslow Stevens is seen as the heartless owner of the air service employing the outcast pilots whoso licenses have been revoked in the States. To Van Heflin falls the difficult role of Miss Bournes weakling husband who breaks under the strain of his dangerous oeciqiation, while Douglas Walton, Richard Lane, Walter Miller and Paul Guilfoylc essay the roles of tho remaining members of the liieklcss east. Included in a specially fine selection of supports is the latest of the world in colour scries, “Under the Southern Cress”; also a screamingly funny comedy, sports thrill, and the latest edition of the Rathe News.

KOSY THEATRE. “ISLE OF FURY.” Lovers of primitive melodrama have a treat in store beginning to-night, when ‘.‘lsle of Fury,” the brilliant Warner Bros, picturisation of Somerset Maugham s romance of the South Seas, “Three in Eden, shows at the Kosy Theatre. The hero of the thrilling story 19 Val Stevens, a man of primitive instincts and a refugee from the clutches of the law, who has built up a profitable pearl fishery on a remote Pacific island, but is compelled to do battle for hi a beautiful young bride against a polished man of the world, Erie Blake, whom he has rescued from a shipwreck and .brought into, his home as a friend. The role of Val Stevens is played by Humphrey Bogart, remembered for hi« outstanding performance of the killer in “Tho Petrified Forest.” Stevens, wanted for a crime he did not commit, is rich in pearls he cannot spend, and an exile from civilisation. To his island hideaway a child is brought by her scapegrace grandfather, and his drunken friend. She grows to beautiful womanhood and reluctantly marrios Val. Margaret Lindsay plays the role. During tho marriage 'ceremony a ship is wrecked on a nearby coral reef and Val rushed to the- rescue, and brings ashore young Eric Blake, played bv Donald Woods. The newcomer and Vtil’s bride fall in love. The divers mutiny and Val himself dives for pearls when nti octopus coils its tentacles about hint. Other thrill ing adventures follow with lightning speed to the final fade-out. “PRIDE OF THE MARINES.”

A star-spangled drama of America’s military might, entitled “Pride of the Marines,” will head thenew feature programme now-showing at the Kosy Theatre. Filmed in its entirety at the United States Marine Corps base in San Diego, California, the film features a large east of popular favourites, including Charles Bickford, Florence Rice, Billy Burrud, Robert Allen and Ward Bond. Relating the story of an orphaned urchin, played by little Billy Burrud, who becomes the charge and mascot of America’s life-loving leathernecks, the camera encompasses. in the colourful background all the facilities of the heavy coast artillery and anti-aircraft guns, the fleet, of fighting ’planes, the giant grey battleships, and (he complete 6th Regiment of the United States Marines, some 2600 of America’s finest fighting men.

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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 305, 24 November 1937, Page 3

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ENTERTAINMENTS Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 305, 24 November 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 305, 24 November 1937, Page 3