THE YACHT FAITH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23884, 11 August 1939, Page 6

THE YACHT FAITH

DEPARTURE FOR AUCKLAND FUTURE ITINERARY UNCERTAIN (Per United Press Association; : NAPIER, Aug. 10. The yacht Faith, which arrived at Napier from the Chatham Islands last week, left to-day for Auckland with a crew of four, comprised of three Napier men and the owner, Mr W F. Marsh, of Dunedin. The yacht, which is of 10 tons, originally left the Chathams for Lyttelton, but was delayed by bad weather. A landfall was made at Castlepoint, and she came on to Napier. Some anxiety was felt as she was overdue. The yacht’s itinerary, after reaching Auckland is not yet known. Toler, who now rates as Hollywood’s leading Occidental player of Oriental roles, having recently been chosen to supplant the late Warner Oland as “Charlie Chan.” The cast of “King of Chinatown ” also includes Roscoe Karns, who has appeared in more than 100 films, and pretty Bernadene Hayes, who made her stage debut at the age of nine, playing the child in Ten Nights in a Bar Room" without her parents’ knowledge, much to their disgust when they found out. Miss Hay.es was educated at Washington University and has been in Hollywood for the past five years, making a rapid climb to stardom. The box plans are at the theatre and the D.I.C. GRAND THEATRE “ Beauty for the Askin o ,” now at the Grand Theatre, is one of those simple, highly-polished pictures which are often more satisfactory in every respect than the super-colossal productions to which they form the prelude. The characters are straightforward, but they mean something. Because he is not thinking so hard about the carriage trade, the producer allows himself to be less conventional in the story, The final resolution of the dramatic problem cannot be seen a mile off, but remains in interesting and lifelike obscurity. The writers and the actors do their work smoothly and well The whole thing is drawn together with singular expertness, in Hollywood’s best manner. Lucille Ball is an actress with a dry sense of comedy which variegates and illuminates even commonplace scenes. Donald Woods is • pleasantly genial, and the rest of the cast has been skilfully chosen. Also screening is ‘The Land of Fighting Men," an action-packed Western story starring Jack Randall, the new cowboy actor. The box plans are at the theatre and Beg£ s. MAYFAIR THEATRE Another of the adventures of the wily Oriental sleuth, Mr Moto. and an exciting story of air transport and its attendant dangers, comprise the current programme at the Mayfair Theatre “ The Mysterious Mr Moto ’’ sees Peter Lorre again taking the title role and he is ably supported by Henry Wilcoxon and Mary Maguire The associate attraction is Sky Giant. a drama of the air. The box plans are at the theatre and the D.I.C. "YOUNG Dr KILDARE” Lionel Barrymore and Lew Ayres are teamed in “Young Dr Kildare. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s film version of the popular Max Brand characters of Dr Gillespie and Jimmy Kildare, which will come to the Mayfair Theatre to-morrow in association with “ Strange Boarders." “ Young Dr Kildare ”_ is significant as Lew Ayres’s third picture since his return to the screen spotlight, “Young Dr Kildare” provides Lynn Carver with her first leading role as the sweetheart of Kildare Jo Ann Bayers is seen as Barbara Chan - ler. the girl around whom the dramatic plot boils. Included in the supporting cast are Nat Pendleton Trumen Bradley Emma Dunn and Samuel S. Hinds “ Young Dr Kildare ” is a drama with the medical fraternity for a background The story concerns an idealistic young medical graduate who carves his own career as an interne in the general hospital of a large city