AT DUCHESS THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 82, 7 April 1934, Page 14

AT DUCHESS THEATRE

“ORIENT EXPRESS” TO-NIGHT. The most important development in motion pictures recently is the tendency to place all-star casts in stories that are particularly written for a number of outstanding characters instead of placing single stellar personalities in stories that centre around one person. Such is the opinion of Ralph Morgan, screen and stage character of many years’ experience, who has recently completed a role in “Orient Express,” the Fox film, which is now screening at the Duchess Theatre, with Heather Angel, Norman Foster Herbert Mundin, Una O’Connor ana Irene Ware among tne players in the picture which Paul Martin directed. Joe E. Brown will be seen on the screen of the Duchess Theatre next Wednesday in his latest First National comedy, “Elmer the Great,” which is said to be the most uproariously funuy of any picture he has appeared in to date. “Elmer the Great” is said to be Joe’s biggest and funniest comedy. It was adapted by Toni Geraghty from

the famous stage success of the same title written by Ring Lardner and George M. Cohan, around a champion bah player with lots of conceit. Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Preston S. Foster and Russell Hopton are among those in the supporting cast.

“Hell Below,” Metro-Gold wynMayer’s sensational drama of submarine adventure, with Robert Montgomery, Walter Huston, Madge Evans, Jimmy Durante, Eugene Pallctte and Robert Young leading the cast, is the attraction coming next Friday and Saturday to the Duchess Theatre. The picture unfolds a stirring romance amid the thrills of submarine fighting, torpedoing of destroyers, the destruction of an armed Italian town and other spectacular incidents which have caused the photoplay to be referred to as greater than “Hell Below.”