AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE

LAST DAY: “BOOLOO” AND “DANGEROUS ADVENTURE”

“Booloo,” one of the greatest jungle stories since "Trader Horn" will be finally screened to-night. Colin Tapley and Jane Regan have the leading roles. The associate feature is "Dangerous Adventure" starring Don Terry and Rosalind Keith.

—To-morrow: “Alcatraz Island” and “Prairie Thunder” —

Everybody lias heard of "Alcatraz Island,” that rather smallish bit of rock which is washed b w v the chill cross-currents of San Francisco Bay. But few persons apart from San Francisco residents have ever even seen the island itself, and almost nobody has been on the island of the prison situated on the rock. The picture is called "Alcatraz Island,’ and its leading players are John Litcl, Dick Purcell, Gordon Oliver, Mary Maguire and Ann Sheridan. The tale has to do with a racketeer - played by Litel —who is, in his way, fairly decent. He’ll lake all the money he can get but he won't countenance murder. Because of this latter tenet, he is framed by underworld associates and sent to Leavenworth, a minor gaol, on an income tax evasion conviction. Here he's framed again, made to appear like an incorrigible, and sent to the Big Rock. “Alcatraz Island" isn't altogether a prison story. It would be too drab if jt were. Gat Brady (Litel) has a daughter whom lie has kept in private school before his arrest, and who knows nothing about his meant of livelihood. The yarn concerns itself with how the girl (Mary Maguire) falls in love with the District Attornev (Gordon Oliver) who has sent Gat away, and with howafter still another framing, this tune on a murder charge —Mary and Gordon rally to his rescue at his trial for life. “Alcatraz Island" is a complete novelty as a movie, and has a smashing climax which, straightens everything out in a logical marmot “Prairie Thunder," an exciting meiOdrama of the days when hostile Indians tried to nrevent the w 'uu man from linking coast and coast with his railroads and telegraph lines, vdll be the associate feature w *t 1 the handsome. hard-riding Dick Fortin as its hero. It is. like all Dick s pictures, a Warner Bros, production. The final chapter of “Flash Gordons Trip to Mars" completes a programmHint is outstanding as thrilling entertainment .

—“Guv” Competition Saturday Eight boxes of McKenzies fireworks are being oll'cred as prizes for the best “Guvs" brought to the Majestic Theatre oil Saturday morning at UtltO. The Guys will be judged and (fie ti winners announced at *’)<* matinee commencing at f.T.>.