CINEMA PROGRAMMES

Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1935, Page 5

CINEMA PROGRAMMES

KING’S THEATRE, STKATFOBD.

"LEST WE FORGET.”

“Lest We Forget,” the delightful drama of comradeship in which Stewart Rome portrays the principal role, will be finally screened at the King’s Theatre tonight.

A good mystery film is always assured of an enthusiastic reception, and “The Case of the Howling Dog,” the Warner Brothers’ production, coming to the King’s to-morrow, should enjoy a season of exceptional popularity. An original note is struck in that instead of the familiar detective taking the central part of the plot, the outstanding character is a criminal lawyer, Perry Mason. Not only does he contrive to be on the spot when a murder is discovered, and to collect some important evidence which the police, in their impetuosity, overlook, but he also has the admirable faculty of playing his cards at an opportune moment, to the embarrassment of a cock-sure prosecution. The mystery which surrounds the howling of an Alsatian police-dog, and the subsequent disappearance of a man and his wife is admirably sustained, and when Mason discloses in Court that not one, but three murders have been committed, the audience in the theatre is almost as dumbfounded as that in the court room on the screen. There are more surprises to follow, and the final unravelling o* the case is of intense interest. Warren William is admirably cast as the criminal lawyer who never lost a case, and the leading feminine roles are well taken by Mary Astor and Helen Trenholme. Tom Keene in “The Cheyenne Kid,” a full feature length western drama, will precede the main attraction.

PLAZA THEATRE, STRATFORD.

“SADIE McKEE” FINALLY.

Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone -and Gene Raymond are the principal players in “Sadie McKee,” x he Metro-Goldwyn championship picture, which attracted, large audiences to the Plaza Theatre yesterday. It will be finally screened tonight. Presented in London before H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, who attended the world premiere, “Red Wagon,” British International Pictures’ screen adaptation of Lady Eleanor Smith’s great romance of circus life, comes to the Plaza Theatre tomorrow. “Red Wagon” is a most unusual film in many ways, and is probably one of the most realistic pictures ever offered for public entertainment. The cast, which includes 25 featured players, is exceptionally strong; the plot is vivid and gripping from start to finish, and the whole show is produced on a most lavish scale. A film or a story of circus life is always bound to get a good reception, for there is a compelling lure about life around the sawdust ring. It is the be-hind-the-scenes life that is fraught with sorrows and heartaches, with loves and jealousies, and sometimes with tragedies. It is such a story that is unfolded in “Red Wagon,” which tells of the ambitions and loves of a circus owner, whose whole life is almost wrecked by the faithlessness of those whom he loved. Prominent in the cast are Greta Nissen, the tiger woman, Charles Bickford, the circus owner, Raquel Torres, the gipsy girl, Don Alvarado, Anthony Bushell, Amy Veness, and a young boy, Jimmy Hanley.