ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 79, 2 March 1938, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE, “THIRTEEN HOURS BY AIR.” Paramount’s “Thirteen Hours by Air,” featuring: Fred Mac Murray, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts, John Howard, Bennie Bartlett, Grace Bradley, Alan Baxter, Brian Doulevy, Ruthe Donnelly and Fred Keating, is now showing at the Kosy Theatre. This Paramount picture is a story of romance and intrigue on a New York-to-San Francisco transport plane, with attempts at murder and at cracking up the ship merely two of the incidents that make the flight adventurous. On board the ’plane as it takes off from New York are a girl who describes herself as a prominent socialite but who is suspecled of being involved in a big jewel thett; the nine-3 r ear-old heir to a fortune of millions, anti his governess; a man who describes himself as a physician, but who 6hows a surprising lack of medical knowledge ; two other mysterious male passengers, and the crew' —pilot, co-pilot and hostess. Once the ship is in the air, tilings begin happening quickly and furiously. There is an attempt at killing, another to crash the plane.. Mac Murray, the pilot, is reluctant to believe Miss Bennett, the girl in the case, is a jewel thief. The events that follow' before all is cleared up make for one of the most exetiing stories brought to the screen in months. “TIMOTHY’S QUEST.” Eleanore Whitney, .who made her screen debut in “Millions in the Air,” plays opposite Toni Keene. Screen fans who know her only as a tapdancing sensation, have a pleasant surprise in store for them in her first straight dramatic role. “Timothy’s Quest,” now showing at the Kosy Theatre, deals - with a lad and his younger lister who escape from'a couple trading in homeless children. The youngsters find a home with a grim spinster in a small village. Timothy, wise beyond his years, proves instrumental m furthering a shaky romance between the spinster’s niece and her sweetheart. STATE THEATRE. “TIIINK TAST, MR MOTO.” “Mr Moto,” the new kind of sleuth who astonished millions of Saturday Evening Post readers, proves even more astonishing on the screen as IPeler Lorre, the one star who could portray J. P. Marquand’s diffident Japanese to the life, undertakes the role in “Think Fast, Mr Moto,” Twentieth Century-Fox picture, which screens to-night at the State Theatre. Not since he startled the world wit.i his sensational triumph in “M,” has Lorre given the screen such an amazing performance—the strange Mr Moto, whose eyes are as mild as his timid smile, but whose mind is as quick as his trigger finger. Strange events in Frisco’s Chinatown place the amazing detective on the trail of a criminal band that lias the international police at their wits’ end. From

tlii> Golden Gate he follows mysterious clues across the pacific to Shanghai, nest of a thousand iniquities, harbourer of a thousand evildoers. Enmeshed in the tragic toils of the gang that is the object of Lorre’s search. Virginia Field and Thamos fjecjt find their romance fearfully beset by all manner of dangers, and so welcome the advent of the mysterious little Japanese. Foremost among the Shanghai group is Sig Rumann, the burly proprietor of a waterfront gambling den which is the headquarters of Lorre’s enemies. Norman Foster, who directed the picture in addition to collaborating with Howard Ellis Smith on the screen play, introduces the mild-mannered Oriental to a series of rough-and-tumble jujitsu combats that climax the film by exposing the members of the gang. Executive producer Sol M. Wurtzel, of Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox, announces “Think Fast, Mr Moto” as the first of a series involving fiction’s most unusual sleuth.