Newest Vanity Theme of "Trapped by Television”

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 237, 7 October 1936, Page 11

Newest Vanity Theme of "Trapped by Television”

SCIENTIFIC MAGIC CRASHES INTO HOLLYWOOD (Kosy: Screening Saturday). Mankind’s newest vanity, television, has at last crashed, tho movies. Hollywood ha 3in recent years become known as the pulse of the people; that which intrigues the public makes story material for alert studios. So it is no surprise that fans are about to be treated to a film about television. The title of tho film is "Trapped by Television," with Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot and Nat Pendleton m the leading ioles.

According to tho story, Fred Dennis is a struggling young inventor who is unable to complete his new television set because of lack of funds. He falls in with a good-natured bill collector named Rocky O’Neil, who gets Fred a job like his own. Through the job, Fred meets attractive Bobby Blake, a youug lady with a flair for racketeering. At first Bobby intends to use Fred and his invention as ’the way to wheedle a couplo of hundred dollarsout of the head of a largo broadcasting company. But love intrudes, and Bobby finds herself trying to help the young inventor. She gives ‘him the money to finish tho set, and then arranges a demonstration at the broadcasting company. . Complication ensuo when an unscrupulous official of the company tries to wreck Fred’s set in attempt to clear the way for a television set controlled by himself.

Mary Astor has recently been seen to udvantago in ‘ ‘And So they Were Married" with Melvyn Douglas. Lyle Talbot’s last film was "Tho Singing Kid," and Nat Pendleton has lately been seen iu "Tho Great Ziegfcld."