TOWN HALL TALKIES

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3270, 23 February 1937, Page 4

TOWN HALL TALKIES

“CHINA CLIPPER”

TONIGHT AND TOMORROW

‘'China Clipper,” the new- First National production which is the feature attraction at the Town Hall Theatre tonight and tomorrow is a glamorous romance of the air, marking a milestone in the pictorial history of daring aviation.

There is.van exceptionally talented. cast which intrudes Pat O’Brien Beverly Ross Alexander, Humphrey B. .Walthall in the principal roles.

While the story itself is fictitious, it is based to a large extent* on the hazardous flights of the * famous. China t of the Pan-American Airw-ayi;: %hich not so long ago established -‘an air service between. Alameda, pin the Pacific Coast near San. Francisco, and the Philippine Islands.' « v A tribute to the vision, ingenuity, and courage of the men who battled not only storm and fog, but tile-timidity and prejudice of capit-. plistic interests, to establish . longdistance air lines, “China Clipper” is a brilliant chapter in th.e ; . pictorr ial history of daring aviation. Hopalong' Cassidy Returns < Hopalong, Cassidy returns <o a life, of adventure as a two-gun peacemaker—forced to match wits with a woman—in the Paramount filjb, “Hopalong Cassidy Returns,” dhe’’ next change. * ', ,

; Cassidy is the marshal of a lawless Western town in the picture, and he finds that most of the com: munity's . crime stems from one source—Lildi Marsh, proprietress of the Crystal Slipper Bar. The roles of both William Boyd and Evelyn Brent in the newest “Hoppy’’ film recall many actual characters in the history of the Old West. Incidents in the lives of Wild Bill Hickcock, Bat Materson, Calamity Jane," and others are reflected in events, of the picture plot.