PERSONAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1934, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. R. Masters is at Stratford. Mr. W. J. Polson, M.P., returned to Stratford from Wellington on Saturday. GENERAL ITEMS. Whangamomona Congratulated. Congratulations to the settlers of the , Whangamomona district in their enthusiastic establishment of calf-rearing and jetable plots competitions were extended by the executive of the South Tar: aki Boys and Girls’ Clubs Association at Hawera on Saturday. It was decided unanimously to offer all assistance to the new group in its efforts to establish the competitions. Badminton Concludes. The Stratford Badminton Club concluded the season on Friday night with a competition, doubles and combined doubles being played. The winners were: Miss New and J. W. Pooley. Consolation prizes went to Mrs. Cameron and C. Ennis. KING'S THEATRE. “SILK EXPRESS.” For sheer engrossing entertainment, for novelty of plot and locale and for cleverness of solution, “The Silk Express,” which will be finally screened at the King’s Theatre to-night, proves to be one of the most engrossing pictures seen in a time. It has for its setting a fast, heavily guarded silk train, which has the right of way even over the Presidential Special, as it speeds from Seattle to New York, laden with 3,000,000 dollars worth of raw silk, brought in from the Orient. Contracts for this silk make'it imperative that the train reaches New York on time in order to break a corner in silk that had been engineered by unscrupulous speculators. The methods resorted to by these gamblers to prevent the silk reaching its destination include murder and arson. PLAZA THEATRE. “NIGHT FLIGHT.” “Night Flight,” a particularly striking story of the air mail in South America, concludes its Stratford season at the Plaza Theatre to-night. It is an M.-G.-M. picture directed by Clarence Brown, himself a licensed pilot. Brown has kept completely the magnificent atmosphere of the original story by Atoine de SaintExupery, for years a mail pilot over the very routes he describes in his story. The drama and melodrama of the piece are beautifully presented by an astonishing all-star cast, including John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy. John Barrymore as Riviere, stern manager of the air-line, gives what is perhaps the strongest presentation of his long and great career. It balances beautifully with the work done by Clark Gable, a pilot battling storms, and Helen Hayes, Gable’s worry-distracted wife.