Mae West is Included in “Night After Night"

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 273, 21 November 1934, Page 5

Mae West is Included in “Night After Night"

SEEKS THRILLS AND FINDS ROMANCE IN NIGHT CLUB

(Kosy: Screening Saturday.)

Now well known as a star, Mae West- colourful figure of the Broadway stage, made her movie debut in the film “Night After Night." With Wynne Gibson she is one of George Baft’s ex-sweet-hearts who find more difficulty in breaking the tie with him than he does. Paramount’s “Night After Night" which features George Baft, Constance Cummings, Wynne Gibson, Mae West, and Alison Skipworth, is on a double programme. The action of the film is set in a luxurious New York night club, an old brownstone mansion rescued from decay to serve as an oasis for Manhattan’s. wealthy thirsty. Baft, young player who scored sensational success in minor roles in “Scarface," “Dancers in the Dark," and “The Sporting Widow," has his first leading role as proprietor of the club. Miss Cummings is seen in the role of a society debutante who finds that the night club has been established in the house in which she was born, a couple of decades back, in its better days. A yearning draws her back to it time after time. Her frequent visits bring her in contact with Baft, who is fascinated by her. And a queer romance develops between the two—a romance which is precipitated into startling channels by I a series of unusual events. It is a dramatic story of a house of drama—and its people. Dangerous, shady people who live on the outside, on the edge of the law. They arc the most interesting people you have ever met! They are heirs to many moods—love sways them, happiness seems to elude them, gaiety mocks them. They squeeze every sensation out of life. They live for to-day; to-morrow they never reckon with, their life is too filled with dangerous surprises to count on to-morrow. This is not, however, a story of gangsters; gangdom does not enter into this house. Bomance develops between a gambler and a luscious society bud, who is drawn back “Night After Night" to this house in which sho was born. But under this pleasantness drama stalks. Grim, stark and vivid!