MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 12, 15 January 1936, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

••THE PAY-OFF.” •‘The Payoff” Warner Bros, latest newspaper drama, comes to the Majestic Theatre to-day, with a tri-star cast, including James Dunn, Claire Dodd and Patricia Ellis. The picture is entirely different from its predecessors in the newspaper field, centreing about the activities of an honest sports writer, his contact with the gambling fraternity, and his love affairs, which, incidentally, furnish a new twist to the triangular romance. The picture is based on the story by George Bricker, for many years a newspaper writer, and depicts all the thrills and glamor and excitement in the work of a reporter who is constantly' threatened by gamblers who try to bribe and intimidate him. James Dunn has the role of the sports writer. Claire Dodd is the selfish wife and Patricia Ellis a newsnaper woman genuinely in love with him. Dunn is fired from his job when he ceases in his attack on the acc gambler, a part played by Alan Dinehart and is practically down and out 'rat kie Darro, as a jockey whom he had befriended tips him off to a p in the nig race of the seai-oi/. Robert Florey directed the picture from the screen play by George Bricker and Joel Sayre.