OPERA HOUSE.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1938, Page 3

OPERA HOUSE.

"SPAWN OF THE NORTH." Warner Bros.' powerful drama, "Marked Woman," co-starring Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart with Isabel Jewell and Allen Jenkins, will be shown finally at 2 and 8 p.m. to-day at the Opera House, New Plymouth. "Spawn of the North," starring George Rgft, Dorothy Lamour, Henry Fonda and Akim Tamiroff, commences at 2 and 8 p.m. to-morrow at the Opera House. It is the stirring tale of a rugged life amidst the salmon fisheries of Alaska, and some of the scenes which sliow towering ice bluffs dwarftnd the human figures which move near their base are awe-inpsring. The setting is the

fishing grounds, and there is a dramatic story. It deals with two boys, one of whom (George Raft) cannot rid his mind of the easy pickings from other folks' salmon traps, and is drawn into a bad school led by a Russian renegade (Akim Tamiroff). Temperamental, without the ballast of his friend, he teams with the owner of the fishing village hotel, a girl with fine qualities of loyalty and a desire to live down a past. The other boy (Henry Fonda) is drawn in on the fide of law and order, and a climax is reached when one lad, . with the trapped poachers, sinks two of the pAtrol boats with a harpoon gun, and the other, with the patrol, sees his face in a flash of light just as he has shot him. The wounded man does not die, but the other then er.ters upon his period of trial. Half the village scorns him, and he finally decides against the wish of his girl, who is the daughter of the local editor, to go out and seek the Russian leader who has taunted him with cowardice. The wounded man has been taken by the Russian to dispose of as a dangerous witness, but he turns the tables by superhuman grit while still in a very dangerous state of health, remembership the old friendship and finally squaring off his account nobly. . Plans are at Collier's.