Princess, Kaitaia

Northland Age, Volume 8, Issue 2, 12 October 1938, Page 14

Princess, Kaitaia

Friday and Saturday

On Saturday (Election night) the programme will be extended till midnight, and during the evening election results will be screened. On both Friday and Saturday two main pictures will be shown (“shorts” will be used to extend the Saturday programme), and these will be :

Thrilling action against the colourful background of Old California highlights Harold Bell Wright’s fast-mov-ing screenplay, “The Californian,” the first production, with Ricardo Cortez in the starring role. The dramatic, thrill-paced story of a famed and feared hero of Old California’s scarlet days, the Twentieth Century-Fox release presents Cortez as a phantom bandit, who leaves behind a taunting laugh as token of his daring raids. His career parallels the exploits of the famous bandit, Tiburcio Vasquez, who became outlaw in an effort to right the wrongs done his Mexican countrymen by renegade Americans attracted by the great gold rush of 1849. America’s favourite family, the Jonses, go yell-bent for election in their most uproarious hit, “Hot Water,” the second feature at the Princess on Friday and Saturday, when Dad tries to clean up the town and gets mud in his eye for his efforts. Jed Prouty, as Dad Jones, tosses his hat in the ring of the mayoralty race, and what a tossing round he gets. The party wants Dad, the youngsters want a party and the opposition wants to put the whole family on the spot. Shirley Deane, Spring Byington, Russell Gleason, Kenneth Howell, George Ernest, June Carlson, Florence Roberts and Billy Mahan are back in their familiar places around the Jones Family table, and Joan Marsh and Marjorie Weaver are also featured. Monday Stormy scenes at a world peace conference were staged at Pinewood studios for the new A.T.P. film made

under the direction of veteran Sinclair Hill. The picture is “Midnight Menace,” starring Fritz Kortner, the continental character actor supreme, and Charles Farrell, popular Hollywood star, the feminine lead being played by Australia’s own Margaret Vyner. Amongst the supporting cast are Danny Green, Wallace Everett, Monte de Lyle, Dino Galvani, Dennis Norton and Terence O’Brien. The story is a thrilling one of espionage and death, and patrons of the Princess next Monday, will not be disappointed in this excellent British film. Tuesday and Wednesday Next year’s fashions in fun, gowns, girls, love, music, dances and Technicolour are introduced by “Walter Wanger’s Vogues of 1938,” the gay musical extravaganza starring Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett, which begins a two day engagement at the Princess theatre on Tuesday. Helen Vinson, Mischa Auer, Alan Mowbray and Jerome Cowan head the imposing supporting cast, which includes Marjorie Gateson, Dorothy McNulty, Alma Kruger, Polly Rowles and the famous Walter Wanger Models, beauteous winners of the producer’s nationwide search for “the most photographed girls in the world.” The production introduces several new song hits, including “That Old Feeling” by Lew Brown and Sammy Fain ; “Lovely One” by Frank Loesser and Manning Sherwin ; and “Red Hot Heat” and “Fall Fashion Forecast” by Louis Alter and Paul F. Webster.