“OPERATOR 13”

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12952, 17 May 1935, Page 5

“OPERATOR 13”

THRILLING SPY FILM. There can now be no denying that Mo rion Davies is possibly the screen’s most versatile star. Just when she establishes herself as a ranking comedienne, singer and dancer in one stupendous musical pictlitre, she follows up with a dramatic? performance that will long be remembered. In her new Metro-Goldwyn-Maver-Cosmopolitan picture, “Operator i 3,” which shows on Saturday at the King s Theatre, matinee and evening, Miss Davies appears as Gail Loveless, a lovely spy who is sent to seek and slay her enemy's most valuable scout and spy. Captain Jack Gailliard. Gary Cooper plays the role of Gailliard and the love complications that spring up between these two enemy spies provider one of the most romantic stories to reach the motion picture screen. With the Civil War as the colourful background, “Operator 13”—based upon Robert W. Chambers;’ last and greatest novel—is crammed with interesting sidelights upon one of the least known phases of the rebellion, the espionage systems of the armies of the North and South. The charm of the Old South has been iecaptured, even to the musical strains that run through the production—the quaint songs by the Mills brothers and the old-fash-ioned dances on the eve of the Battle of Dreuryt’s Bluff. Splendid featurettos include Metrotono News, Cincscund News, “Goofy Movies” (a novelty), “In Hideout” (Chanter 14 of “Reel Riders”) and “Rhapsody in Brew” (a musical comedy).