AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 161, 19 June 1936, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

0 Plaza Theatre. . "THE GHOST GOES WEST" TO-NIGHT. ] r I I ' j i Robert Donat, the handsome your;'; i i ! ! English actor who rose to wo.ld fame j overnight last season when he was brought to Molly wood to play "The Count of Conte Cristo," makes his latest appearance in "The Ghost Goes West," Alexander Korda's say romantic comedy' which is, showing at j the Plaza Theatre, Stratford. Jean j Parker and Eugene Palette head the j supporting cast . The story follows j the amazing- and amusing adventures J of a handsome and amiabje "spook" i who haunts an auicent Scottish cas»- j I tie. When a wealthy American food j j merchant named Mai tin buys the cas- j j tie from Donald G'ouric, the ghost's i debt ridden descendant, and trans-j ports it to America ttone by .stone the spook goes along. Donat plays the dual role of Donald and the ghost. The story roaches a surprise comedy climax when Martin, who had decid- j ed to use the ghost (o advertise his grocery business, re-erects the ludi- ! ciously modernised castle in New I York and holds a gala, reception to introduce his famous "spook" to the j gentlemen of the Press. "The Ghost i Goes West" is a London film released I through United Artists. It war, j adapted by Robert E. Sherwood from j a story in London Punch, by' Eric j Keown. "The Ghost Goes West" is i I lie first production to be direct •■( in J English by Rene Clair, the famous l French director who handled the | megaphone on such successes a; j "Sous Les Toits do Pa:K" "Le MM-j lion" and' "A Nous La Liberte." i j King's Tlieaire. i WILL ROGERS AND EDMUND LOWE. | ( | Described by those who have wit- j nessed it in preview showings as one j of the most thrilling pictures of risk and clanger ever screened, Fox Films j production "Under Pressure," will I shown at the King's Theatre tonight. Fdmund Lowe and Victor McLagien, i one of the most popular teams in the history of the film industry, are the j costars of'this l unique story', v.irch f brings to the screen for the first time the lives and spectacular adventures of tunnel workers'. Described in advance accounts from Hollywood as the finest of Will Rogers' notable j series of American character nor- J traits, the Fox Film production "The County Chairman," will be the second feature. "The County Chairman" is a screen adaptation of the j famous play of the same title by one j ci' America's foremo&t humouris s, George Ade. !