ENTERTAINMENTS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4044, 6 May 1938, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

AT THE REGENT. FINAL SCREENING TO-NIGHT. “THE SONG OF THE FORGE.” Something unusual and novel is combined in “ The Song of the Forge,” the premier offering at the Regent Theatre to-night. It deals with the career of a young blacksmith who leaves his home town in Lancashire., becomes a motor mechanic, develops into a motor magnate, is knighted, and is happily married to a charming and celebrated actress, and conceives a plan for helping his bull-headed father over the rocky roads of poverty and on to “ easy street.” It is a delightfully absorbing story, and well worth seeing. There is also a very fine supporting programme, including “ Variety Parade.” COMMENCING SATURDAY. “SOULS AT SEA” An intensely dramatic, all-but-for-gotten piece of maritime history that was an international sensation nearly one hundred years ago is being brought to the screen by Paramount as further evidence of the apparently growing conviction among film producers that truth, in the hands of a good re-write man, is better box-office than fiction. The picture is “ Souls at Sea,” which will open to-morrow at the Regent Theatre, with Gary Cooper and George Raft in the leading roles, supported by a brilliant cast. Behind the screen play of rewrite man Grover Jones is the tale of an actual shipwreck and of a man who “ played God ” with human lives on the brink of disaster, and got away with itAT THE EMPIRE. FINAL SCREENING TO-NIGHT. “ ALL IN.” The story of the hilarious comedy “ All In ” at the Empire Theatre to- I night, with Ralph Lynn as Archie, is | a really sporting one. Archie finds that he has been left a racing stable | and, with it, the Derby favourite. He •

visits the stables, is mistaken for a tout, and ducked in a pond, but is rescued by Kay, daughter of Toop, who manages the stables. Then he is inveigled into buying for £5OOO an all-in wrestling stadium worth nothing at all. With it he buys a lot of trouble in the shape of some tough wrestlers who pester Archie for arrears of pay. In a fit of bravado he tells his aunt and her cronies about the stable, and is promptly tricked into signing it away into their hands for conversion into a working girls’ home. The next day—Derby Day— Arche learns that the Dean of .Plinge is to take possession of the stables, and with the help of the wrestlers hatches a plot to thwart him.