PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 274, 18 November 1937, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

“CHINA PASSAGE.” Romance against a baffling mystery background and in a colourtut setting forms the theme of "China Passage," RKO-Radio’s new thriller with Constance Worth and Cinton Haworth in the romantic roles, which concludes to-night at the Plaza Theatre. The two players portray a feminine Customs agent and an American soldier of fortune, both intent on regaining an immensely valuable diamond which is stolen from Americans in a Shanghai jewellery store. The pursuit leads them and a group of suspects across the Pacific to San Francisco, where the mystery is finally cleared up after many exciting happenings. “Step Lively, Jeeves.” Jeeves, so sad-eyed, so gentle, so utterly proper, thought gangland to be all right. They could swindle him, bamboozle him, and buffet him about, but he insists on proper manners, ano so the underworld is in a dither when P. G. Wodehouse's famed “gentleman's gentleman" goes berserk for a delightlul period of buffoonery in “Step Lively, Jeeves!" featuring the incomparable Arthur Treacher in the title role, which commences to-mor-row at the Plaza Theatre. Patricia Ellis and Robert Kent ate Jeeves's only friends in the strange America he is seeing for the first lime as the unwilling dupe of Alan Dinehart and George Givot, a couple ol swindlers trying hard to make a dishonest living. Fun and excitement attach to the earnest, social-climbing efforts of Helen Flint, wife of a retired gangster, when she takes for her society splurge the heir to the millions of Sir Francis Drake, the suddenly prominent "Earl of Bedford," which is the bogus title the two “con" men have bestowed upon their unsuspecting friend. Also on the programme is the oflicial film of the Melbourne Cup race.