Ann Sothern First Lady of Sea Drama

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 189, 12 August 1936, Page 11

Ann Sothern First Lady of Sea Drama

VICTOR JORY ALSO IN «‘ HELL-SHIP MORGAN. ’ * (Kosy: Screening Saturday). George Bancroft, the screen’s number one he-man, ends his recent retirement from the picture fold, with his re-appearance cn the screen in Columbia’s “Hell-Ship Morgan,” Co-featured with the star of “Underworld” and “Docks of New York”, is Ann Sothern with Victor JOry in the leading supporting role. This new melodrama is a saga of the sea presenting Bancroft in his favourite and most familiar role—that of a swashbuckling, burly taskmaster who gets what he wants by right of might. Tho film’s action takes place aboard one of the typical fishing boats that ply the tuna trade in tho shark-infested Mexican waters. On board Bancroft's boat, the Southern Cross, is his new wife, a penniless girl whom he had befriended but a few days before, and Jim Allen, his mate. Ann Sothern, as Mary Taylor, who had married the blustering Morgan out of gratitude, soon finds herself desperately in love with the handsome Allen. A mutinous member of the crew brings the hopeless romantic triangle into sharp relief when ho threatens to expose their love to tho unsuspecting captain. The emotional strife is forgotten, however, when a violent tropic storm suddenly menaces tho boat. Amid the terrifying dangers of tho storm, “Hell-Ship Morgan” roars .to an exhilarating conclusion,

Mutual admiration? Fred Mac Murray has a large portrait of Joan Bennet in his studio dressing room and Joan has one of Fred hanging on-the wall of her studio apartment. /The two worked together in Paramount’s “13 Hours by Air.”

Just as soon ns he completed Paramount’s “Early to Bed,” Charles Buggies packedlbag and baggage aud left Hollywood for a vacatiou in Mexico. Charlie likes to keep his vacation destinations, secret—but this timo it leaked out;