PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 157, 5 July 1934, Page 10

PLAZA THEATRE

‘‘SUCH WOMEN ARE DANGEROUS.” u Jsuch Women arc Dangerous,” a comedy-drama starring Warner Baxter, showing at the Plaza Theatre. The film combines romance, intrigue and mystery, and presents Baxter in a role that is ideally suited to his personality. Baxter finds himself the target of the love-making of three charming feminine stars, Rosemary Ames, Rochelle Hudson and Mona Barrie. Baxter, as a handsome bachelor-novelist, is the admiration of nine million women readers, but three women arc directly concerned with his private life. One of them, his secretary, seeks to protect him from the love of. a young girl who aims to marry him, and also a married opera singer who is madly infatuated with him. The young girl commits suicide and the novelist is accused of the murder. It is reported that the humorous and exciting developments through which the novelist is extricated from this unfortunate situation provides a thoroughly amusing and interesting climax to the story. ‘‘Flying Down to Rio” “Flying Down to Rio,” a musical extravaganza which is coming to the Plaza Theatre on Saturday, is reported to be an amazingly spectacular production. The handsome Gene Raymond takes his American jazz band to Rio de Janeiro to* open a show in a new hotel. He falls in love with Dolores del Rio, as the daughter of the hotel owner, and a hot rivalry develops between Raymond and Raul Roulien, a situation complicated by the fact that Roulien has been engaged io Dolores for years. When the “heavies,” a syndicate of Greek gamblers, try to spoil the ‘leal and ruin father by getting city officials to prohibit Gene’s show, that young man foils them all by taking his band and his two hundred beauties aloft. In full Niew Of thousands of awed Brazilians, girls sing and dance on the wings of aeroplanes, adagio dancers hurl their fair partners from one aeroplane to another and ballet dancers trip the light fantastic while fluttering earthward in parachutes. Dolores and Gene are then married by an aeroplane pilot, and everybody lives happily ever afterwards. The fllm is elaborately staged against the tropical and architectural beauty of Rio de Janeiro.