DOUBLE PROGRAMME.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 936, 5 December 1933, Page 3

DOUBLE PROGRAMME.

Liberty Offers a Feast of Thrills. .1 T^. e Liberty Theatre has a feast of thrills for its patrons this week. “Flying Devils ", the first offering, is another of those films which make stunt flying appear so easy and pedestrianism so much more safe. Daredevil flying is the key-note of the picture, with a triangular chase and a head-on crasn in mid-air as its thrilling climax. The main feature, “Trick for Trick” is an unusual type of comedy-drama. It is a clever parody of all the eerie black magic that has been served up of late in mystery plays. Ralph Morgan and Victor Jory appear as two modern “ magicians ”, armed with a complete repertoire of tricks, electrical and mechanical aids, who are pitted against each other in the solving of a baffling murder mystery. Fake •‘medium” work, sleight of hand, ghostly effects, and all the mechanism of the trade are introduced to at once baffle and amuse the audience. “Flying Devils” is a drama built up round the activities of stunt flying circuses The central figures are all members of a troupe to whose rather risky lives are added the further elements of a romantic youth and a madly jealous husband. Ralph Bellamy, Bruce «’abot, Arlin'e Judge and EriLinden supply the drama, leaving the comedy in the capable hands of Cliff Edwards.