PLAZA THEATRE
“THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII.’’ Mighty and terrible events from a pagan world centuries ago are brought to the screen in RKO Radio’s spectacle, “The Last Days of Pompeii,” showing at the Plaza Theatre. As the picture unfolds, a stark drama rolls in majestic splendour through vivid pageantry, searing*conflict, and barbaric cruelties, in an epic march that is finally ended by an enraged Nature dealing death and destruction with earthquakes and a belching volcano. Preston Foster appears as Marcus, the blacksmith, gladiator, horse thief, slave dealer, and human butcher. Basil Rathbone plays Pontius Pilaflp, prophet of the Roman law in Judea. “Gay Deception.’’ The boy was unbelievably rich, hand some, and a royal prince, yet he pretended to be nobody. The girl was .young and lovely, enjoying a. mad, merry fling at life with her last five thousand —and her first. And then they met! There, in a nutshell, is the delicious, mirth-provoking situation in
which Fox Film’s “The Gay Deception,” coming to the Plaza Theatre tomorrow, places its romantic stars, Francis Lederer and Frances Dee. It all starts when Miss Dee, a sweet young secretary, who has longed all her life to be in the whirl of gay city life, wins a sweepstake prize and decides to spend it on one delirious spree of pleasure. Ou the same programme is “Thunder Mountain,” Zane Grey’s thriller brought to the screen.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 11, 14 January 1936, Page 12
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232PLAZA THEATRE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 11, 14 January 1936, Page 12
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