DOUBLE FEATURE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 256, 28 October 1937, Page 3

DOUBLE FEATURE

ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME. Two feature pictures of an entirely different character, form the programme which is coming next Wednesday to the Majestic Theatre. The first feature, “The Man Who Lived Twice,” is an unusual drama of a criminal’s transformation after a miracle of modern surgery, and the theme has something of the Jekyll and Hyde motif in the background. Ralph Bellamy carries out a dual role with complete understanding, portraying first the crime-hardened thug, and then the new man, with a new outlook on life, arisen from tiie operating table. Supporting players include Marian Marsh and Isabel Jewel. The second feature, “California Straight Ahead,” is replete with action and thrills. Aeroplanes for the Orient—rushed to the coast by racing trucks and roaring trains! Winner take all in a daring, dashing, dynamite drama of drivers against death! Ten-year-old Pianist. Jose Iturbi, the famous pianist, has taken under his wing a ten-year-old prodigy in the person of Peter Paul Loyanich, of San Francisco. The great man plans to take the lad to Now York and Philadelphia for daily lessons and possible concert appearances. Popular Comedienne. Marjorie Gordon, the comedienne in the J. C. Williamson Ltd. production of “Balalaika,” made her last appearance in London prior to her departure for Australia in the musical comedy ‘Darling You.” The cast included Donald Burr and Billie Worth, now appearing in “Over She Goes” in Australia, Kitty Reidy, now a London favourite, who commenced her stage career under the J. C. Williamson Ltd. management in Australia. A feature of the performance was the dancing of the Marquarsteiner Tyrolese troupe, who appeared in the J. C. Williamson Ltd. production of “White Horse Inn.”

Honeymoon To Wait. The honeymoon of Alice Faye and Tony Martin, who eloped to Yuma recently, will have to await the completion of their respective current assignments. Miss Faye is completing “In Old Chicago’ at her own studio. Twentieth Century-Fox and Martin is finishing “Life Begins at College” for the same studio. A trip to Honolulu is planned by the couple. Walter Wangrr. The Walter Wangor wardrobe department has five brand-new identical wedding gowns on his hands-—and it’s all the fault of Joan (one-take) Bennett. In one scone of “Walter Wanger’s Vogues of 1938,” a technicolour musical Joan storms into Warner Baxter’s fashion salon and rips ner wedding gown to shreds. Six such gowns were designed to cover the situation. The first time Joan did the scene, however, Cummings cried: “Perfect! Print it!” So now the wardrobe department is stuck with a surplus. “Walter Wanger’s Vogues of 1938” was written by Samuel and Bella Spewack and is released through United Artists.