KING'S THEATRE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14091, 24 March 1939, Page 5

KING 'S THEATRE.

FINAL SCREENING TO-NIGHT OF GUAM) DOUBLE BILL. The dynamic fighting instincts of Bulldog .Drummond are given free rein in Paramount’s new adventure picture, “Rulldog Drummond Comes Rack,” which screens to-night at the King’s Theatre. The amateur detective, played by John Howard, is forced into a chase across country when Ids fiancee, Louise Campbell, is kidnapped by an inimical gang. Only the aid of his friends, John Barrymore, Reginald Denny and E. E. Clive, make the task of finding the girl possible in this lightningfast mystery film, but he carries through to the climax in the traditional Drummond manner. Winn a wife goads her husband Orion Havwnrd did'to ' William Gargnn. and' he finds lie can’t write a mystery story without living it, there’s' bound to be trouble as is shown in Paramount’s "She Asked for It,” which is the supporting picture at the King’s Theatre, directed by Erie Kenton and featuring, in addition to the principals, Vivienne Osborne. Richard Carle. Roland Drew and Tully Marshall. “THE TEXANS.” Joan Bennett, Randolph Scott and May Robson head a cast of thousand's in Paramount’s epic of America's re-birth in the days following the war between the States, “The Texans,” which screens to-morrow at 2 and 8 p.m. at the King's Theatre. Miss Rennott will he seen as a fireeating Southern helle. who outdoes the “Jezebels” and “Scarlett O'Hara’s” hy starting a one-woman rebellion against the corrupt politicians who are bleeding the South and lining their own pockets during thii mad, tumultuous days of the Reconstruction. Her rash plans only stop when her handsome young Southern officer returns from the War to convince her that North and South must hurv their old differences and emerge frmn the ruins as one united nation.