ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 121, 20 April 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAYFAIR THEATRE. '“THE BIG GUY.” . Co-starring Victor McLaglcn and Jackie Cooper in one of Uie most dramatic stories to come out of Hollywood in recent months, New Universal’s “Tho 13ig Guy” screens to-day at the Mayfair Theatre. McLaglen, whose rugged performances have won him tho screen’s highest acting honour, the Academy’s Award, portrays a prison warden who is trapped by the same motives he condemns in the convicts under his caie. Cooper iias a new and different typo screen role as tho youth entangled in a web of circumstantial evidence which leads him into disaster. Heading the supporting cast is Ona Munson, who played Belle Waiting in “Gone with tho Wind,” Boggy Moran, youthful screen beauty in tho romantic lead opposite'Cooper, Edward Brophy, the comedymenace, and Alan Davis, Jonathan Hale, Russell Hicks and. Milton Kibbo “Code of the Secret Service,” the second in the Warner Bros.’ series of pictures depicting the exploits of the United Stales Secret Service, showing to-day at the Mayfair Theatre, with Ronald Reagan again in the starring role, as in the first, film of flic series, ‘‘Secret Service of tho Air.” Reagan has been assigned the dangerous job of breaking up a hand of counterfeiters operating across the Mexican border. In the course of his assignment ho narrowly escapes execution by Mexican authorities for the supposed murder of one of his own pals. and twice escapes death by a hair's breadth when he falls into the hands of the gang. Daring secret service agents rout enemy spies, a phantom man steals the meteorite box and the boro crashes into a speeding train in “Thundering Rails,” the fifth exciting episode of “The Phantom Creeps, ’ 12-chapter Universal serial showing to-day at the Mayfair Theatre with Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold and Regis Toomcy in the starring roles. REGENT THEATRE “RULERS OF THE SEA.” Frank Lloyd, renowned producer-director of many screen masterpieces, offers a new motion picture—one which is being hailed universally as his greatest. Entitled “Rulers of the Sea,” it stars Douglas,Fairhanks. Jtmr.. Margaret Lockwood, Will Fyffe, the great Scottish character actor, and feature ssueh favourites as George Bancroft and Montagu J.ove. Gloriously and magnificently, in the inimitable manner of Frank Lioyd, it relates the story of the lirsUriumphs of steam over sail, ft tells of the dream of a Scottish inventor, who believes that he has perfected a steam engine capable of driving a ship across the Atlantic. And it shows two young people, j two youngsters desperately in love —his j daughter and a young first mate disgusted with the brutal treatment of crew on sailing ships—helping to bring that dream to triumphant realisation. Fairbanks is cast as the sailing man. Margaret Lockwood as the inventor’s daughter, anil the great Will Fyffe is seen as the inventor in this outstanding Paramount production.