RANFURLY PICTURES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22203, 5 March 1934, Page 12

RANFURLY PICTURES

To-morrow night in the Ranfurly Hall will be screened by Cook's Pictures the hilarious British, comedy " Lucky Girl," starring the incomparable Gene Gerrard, of "My Wife's Family" fame. In this film Gene Gerrard plays .the part of a young man who suddenly succeeds to the throne of a small and impoverished kingdom, and his subsequent adventures tp raise funds on the Crown jewels lead him into many precarious and highly amusing positions. Molly Lamont plays opposite to Gerrard in this picture, which should not be missed. An addqd attraction will be a "Mickey Mouse" cartoon.

Rum-runners in the Baltic resort to the ingenious dodge of trailing their illicit cargoes, tightly packed in large torpedoes in series of 24 or 48 two-gallon cans. In the event jf surprise by a Finnish Government patrol, the tow rope is cut and no incriminating evidence is found on board. ,

Medical science records fewer than 10 cases of progeria, a baffling senile condition that afflicts children. It produces white hair, wrinkled skin, and general debility in'., the child,\ sometimes .even before he has learned to walk,