ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 228, 25 August 1938, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “THE FINAL HOUR.” Au innocent girl—doomed to die for murdering the only man who could save her life—snatched from the nooso as the cringing killer is trapped in a strange dragnet of underworld vengeance! This dramatic situation comprises the theme of Columbia’s “The Final Hour,” showing at the Kosy Theatre. Ralph Bellamy is co-fea-tured in tho leading roles with Marguerite Churchill, with John Gallandet, Lina Basquottc, George McKay, and Elizabeth Risdon in support. Ralph Bellamy, as the famous lawyer, who fails to acquit the ’accused girl, turns, tho underworld inside out and saves the girl by trapping the killer with a perfect alibi! In this one final hour of desperate action you’ll live a lifetime of heart-pounding thrills. Tho film seethes with suspense as The underdogs of tho underworld band together to catch a killer. The story of “The Final Hour” was written by Harold Shumate and directed by D. Ross Lederman. “THE THRILL HUNTER.” Now showing at the ICosy Theatre Buck Jones, the super-western hero of many dutdoor pictures, comes again in his latest action picture, “The Thrill Hunter.” To those patrons who like adventure and romance here is something that the management has much pleasure in recommending. MAYFAIR THEATRE. “VARSITY SHOW.” “Varsity Show,” a musical comedy along altogether new lines, and possessed of a sparkling cast, is screening now at the Mayfair Theatre. A star .individual— Dick Powell—and a star organisation— Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians—are the top-liners in this melodious, laughable, fast-paced tale of college life as the moviemakers see it —and as, doubtless, all college boys and girls wish it were* It is the tale of how the undergraduates of a little fresh-water educational institution try to put on a show under the supervision of a dignified and gloomy professor, only to realise* that he’s ruining it with his highbrow notions. Then they go to the city and dig up Dick Powell, a graduate, who by now is a successful Broadway producer, and induce him to come back to school and supervise a real show. Dick and his partner—none other than the goofy Ted Healy—take over the job. And after many a battle between the modern and old-fogey elements in the school, a show is put on —and what a show ! Maybe you can imagine Fred Waring himself and all his bandsmen 1 , some 50-odd, as college students, and the negro pair, Buck and Bubbles, as singing and dancing janitors of the school. “Varsity Show” is a refreshing relief, iri its story, from the well-worn “back-stage” routine into which many musical comedies have been kept. There is an air of briskness and youth and gaiety to it rarely found in 7iiovie musicals. Rosemary Lane, lovely to look at, is Dick Powell’s romantic feminine interest, while her sister Priscilla is one of the most original and adept dancers to be seen upon the screen in recent years.