“The Gay Desperado.”

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 384, 16 March 1937, Page 8

“The Gay Desperado.”

Gaming to the Plaza Theatre, on Thursday night is a film, the scene oE which is laid in the picturesque Rio Grande, which is a distinct change from the well-worn New York and other cafes and. country h onset. The story concerns one Chivo, who is singer and general at a dingy little movie house below the Rio Grande. When Bragianza, Mexico’s most notorious bandit chieftain, tees an American gangster film there and Is inspired to adopt the gangsters' tactics, Chivo puts ‘down the ensuing riot with tong. His golden voice so thrills the muS’lc-toving Braganza that he has him kidnapped and brought tlo his headquarters. Chivo tells Braganza of his ambition to become a radio star. Braganza at once takes him to a border tO'v.n, seizes a broadcasting station and pushes him in front of the microphone. On the way back, Braganza kidnmps BIU Sliay, weakling son of a politically powerful American multi-million-aire, and hiy sweetheart Jane. Chivo helps Bill escape. Later he and Jane, who have fallen in love, also manage to escape and pick up Bill on the road. Chivo manages to reach the theatre where he once worked, but. his boss, believing him to be a bandit, has him arretted. To prove liils innocence he off era to help an American detective >nJio is working on the kidnapping case. Chivo is and Braganza tells him that Jane is waiting “for him.

King’s Theatre. “Fury.” A new romantic team of unusual appeal fe introduced in the Metro-Goldiwyn-Malyer picture, “Fury,” to be screened at the King’s Theatre tonight and finally to-morrow. The co-starring leads are Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy, and their acting in many of the difficult scenes of this powerful screen play approaches new heights.

“Funy,” With its excellent acting, swift-moving dramatic force atrd suipetib photography, is a real credit to the distinguished Viennese director. It seems 1 altogether safe to predict that he will draw many more important assignments as a resulT of this offering.

The story, prepared for the screen by Lang and Bartlett' Cormack from an original by Norman Krasna, is a hard-hitting depiction of group lawlessness in America. The denouement achieves an emotional tension seldom equalled in motion pictures. It leaves you literally on the edge of your seat up To the fade-out. ~

“Fury” is strong fare, strongly presented. It is a challenge to every right-thinking adult, not as a preachment, for it is stlated with complete objectivity, but as gripping real lite drnima that recurs l constantly on the front, page of the nafloh's