TWO BIG FEATURES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 329, 23 January 1932, Page 25 (Supplement)

TWO BIG FEATURES.

A love drama which has been described as one of the outstanding pictures of the current season, “Up for Murder,” is showing at the Liberty Theatre to-day. Lew Ayres and Genevieve Tobin, two of the most popular of the screen’s newer players, appear in this production, which is a powerful love drama, told against the seething activities of a great newspaper office. The story is a constant succession of dramatic situations brought about by the existence of “ the eternal triangle,” in which the cub reporter and the society editor are unmarried, but the publisher is not. It is when the young reporter, having fallen desperately in love with the conductor of the society column, discovers the existing situation that he takes matters Into his own hands and brings about a tragedy that seriously affects each one of the three principal characters. Monta Bell, who wa's for many years a newspaper man, directed “Up For Murder,” and has brought to the screen what is said to be a perfect picture of a great metropolitan publishing plant. A second feature on the programme is “ Pagan Lady.” Its cast is simply staggering—Evelyn Brent in the title role, Conrad Nagel as a young and untried missionary with some sex inhibitions, Charles Bickford as the hardboiled man of the underworld who proves to have a soft spot, Roland Young as a delightfully droll doctor with some wise ideas about love and life, William Farnum as the hell-fire-and-brimstone evangelist, Lucille Gleason as the proprietress of ■-a cheap hotel, and Leslie Fenton, Gwen Lee and Wallace MacDonald in minor but important roles.