ENTERTAINMENTS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 25, Issue 3760, 25 May 1936, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

EMPIRE THEATRE. AGAIN TO-NIGHT. “EAST OF JAVA.” Wreck< id on a typhoon-swept reef off the African coast in a ship filled with maddened lions and tigers and a dominant man more dangerous than dynamite, a lone girl fights through a terror ridden night. Morning brings only greater.perfls. Animals and humans escape to the island, begin their battle to survive. Hunger—ithirst—sUlkjng. beasts—lack of firewood — throw the frightened survivors into an abyss cf fear! That is, all save the gangster, the leader of men, the red-headed -he-man, Charles Bickford, who beltties as a wild man against the .wild animals who seek his life and the lives of others. These are just some of the highlights of Universalis “East of Java,” the picture in which. Bickford nearly lost his life when a lion attacked him. It features Elizabeth Young, Frank Albertson, Leslie Fenton, Clarence Muse and others. ' ■ >■ ,< REGENT THEATRE. FINAL SCREENING TO-NIGHT. “Public hero number i.” Modern as to-day’s newspaper headlines, and thrilling as their graphic accounts of the war of the govern, ments bn organised crime, is “Public Hero Number 1,” Mietro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s* amazing thriller, of the work of the secret service, now playing at the Regent Thdatre. Tracing the pursuit ■of'a notorious public enemy, the work of the operative who turns him up, to. justice, and the amazing ramifications of the agencies pitted against the underworld, the story tells, in details actually taken from retards, cases and newspapers, the ever more apparent fact that crime dobs not pay. Directed by J. Walter Ruben from a story by himself and W,ells Root, it is a thrilling and engrossing cross-section of the work of government operatives, replete with thrills, enriched with a romance and lightened by many comedy interudes. TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. “AGE OF INDISCRETION.” Another great problem of to-day has found its way to the screen as a piecft pf enthralling entertainment in “Age of Indiscretion,” Metro-Gold-wyn-Mkyer’s dramatic story of a millionaire mother-in-law’s fight for the custody of a child of divorce. Dealing with a situation oftentimes

echoed in the courts to-day, the new picture epens to-morrow at the Regent Theatre with a large cast of featured players, including Paul Lukas, Madge Evans, Helen Vinson, May Robson, David Jack Holt, and Ralph Fbribes. Miss Robson plays the battling m<jther-in-law who goes to court and uses her millions in an altempt to wrest guardianship of a sen from. Lukas, following the divorce of a philandering wife. The dramatic climax in the courtroom where the veteran actress addresses the judge is reported to be the most gripping courtroom episode- since Lionel Barrymore’s famous trial scene in “A Free Soul.” Lukas, as the father fighting for the custody of his child, has one cf the most dramatic roles of ‘his career, and Miss Evans, fresh from her triumph as Dora in “David Copperfield,” is brilliantly cast as the secretary whose position in Lukas' household is misunderstood.