AMUSEMENTS

North Canterbury Gazette, Volume 7, Issue 32, 27 August 1937, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

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Regent Theatre, Rangiora TOMORROW (SATURDAY) “THE ROAD TO GLORY” A dramatic star-shell is promised in “The Road to Glory,” TAventieth Cen-tury-Fox production to be presented tomorroAV at the Regent, Rangiora. Featuring the year’s most impressive cast, the film is hailed as the strangest, strongest drama of love ever brought to the screen.

Fredric March, Warner Baxter, and Lionel Barrymore are starred, Avith the supporting cast headed by June Lang and Lionel Barrymore. Fired Avith the inspired acting of such performers, the film tells a gripping story of love in all its phases, painted on a canvas as great and encompassing as the Avar itself. What glory does to the hearts of men and love to the hearts of women is revealed as the film moves sAviftly, strongly, on to its croAvning climax.

TUESDAY TWO BIG FEATURES A double-feature programme will be presented on Tuesday evening in connexion Avith the St. John Ambulance Benefit night. “High Tension,” starring Brian Donlevy and Glenda Farrell, is a lrve-Avire, thrilling comedy romance that Avill keep everyone in roars of laughter. “NaA r y Wife,” starring Ralph Bellamy and Glenda Farrell, is a splendid dramatic romance shoAving the Avoman’s side of Nav r y life.

THURSDAY “THE MINE WITH THE IRON DOOft” Harold Bell Wright’s famous story, “The Mine With the Iron Door,” Avill be shoAvn on Thursday evening. Many thousands of readers have been entertained by this astounding story, and the screen version is even more entertaining.

Rialto Theatre, Kaiapoi “LAST OUTLAW” TONIGHT The glamour of old western six-gun fighting is combined with the thrills of a modern police manhunt in RKO Radio’s “The Last Outlaw,” which stars Harry Carey and Hoot Gibson and features Henry B. Walthall, Margaret Callahan, and Tom Tyler. The film, which shows at the Rialto tonight, traces the adventures of three westerners —two of them old-time gun fighters, one a daring young cattleman—in pursuing a murderous band of city gangsters into the mountains of Oklahoma.

TOMORROW, MONDAY: “GIRL IN A MILLION” With Sonja Henie, queen of the silvery skates, executing dazzling dances on crystal ice and romancing with Don Ameche, Adolphe Menjou pulling another hilarious performance out of his gag-bag, Jean Hersliolt more lovable than ever, Ned Sparks dead-panning his way to new laugh records, the Ritz Brothers running amusingly amok, Arline Judge cute, captivating, and comical, Borrah Minevitch and his gang playing hot rhythms on their harmonicas, and Dixie Dunbar, Leah Ray, and Shirley Deane contributing beauty and hi-de-ho, “Girl In a Million,” the Twentieth Century-Fox spectacular musical smash, comes to the Rialto on Saturday and Monday.

Set in a brilliant new world of delirious new thrills, “Girl In a Million” tells a story of love burning as sun on snow, sprinkled with fun, roaring as an open fire ,with songs you’ll remember as the year’s big hits. It’s exhilaratingly new and excitingly different screen entertainment, with the cast, the songs, the laughs, the girl and the thrill in a million.