AMUSEMENTS
OPERA HOUSE
“DEVIL IS DRIVING’’ & “MAN
OF TWO WORLDS”
A very fine double-feature programme is now being presented at the Opera House. “The Devil is Driving” is described as a “rapid-fire melodrama," and there can he no doubting that it lives up to that reputation. Edmund Lowe has the role of a goodnatured, easy-going mechanic, who, when lie discovers lie, needs a job, gels his brother-in-law to employ him in a garage, which lie manages. Lowe soon finds that the place is the headquarters of more enterprises than one. II is a centre for the alteration of stolen cars, where such vehicles are made, unrecognisable before being placed on the market. Above, there is a luxurious night, club, and on the top floor the men behind the business live in armed security. Lowe eventually decides to take a hand in the machinations of the gang, and then the audience is provided with some real thrills. The. supporting east, includes Wynne. Gibson, James Gleason and Dickie Moore. The second feature “Man of Two Worlds,” Ims a novel and powerful theme and is admirably acted by Francis Lederer and Elissa Landi.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18587, 22 December 1934, Page 3
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190AMUSEMENTS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18587, 22 December 1934, Page 3
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