PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 169, 20 July 1939, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

(1 ——.» d “KING OF THE TURF." iS Latest recruit to the ranks of e juvenile stars is young Roger Daniel, who shares honours with Adolphe '• Menjou in "King of the Turf,’’ coneluding to-day at the Plaza Theaue. This film tells the story of a fornu . ;y[ a wealthy racehorse owner wohha.sbee come a drunken race-track hanger-on. I d He meets a young jockey who has read > r of him in his heyday and who gels' e him to attempt a come-back. He ..urchases an almost unmanageable thoroughbred for a ridiculous price, _ and with the boy’s help sets out to / train it. But unknown to the owner, e the lad has run away from his home. •1 The horse is a winner, and the boy’s f mother sees his photograph and thinly - disguised alias in a paper, and makes the discovery that the now rehabili- - tated owner is her former hush md t and the boy his son. Dolores Costello plays the part of the mother. Sups porting items are a technicolour 1 novelty, “Strange Occupations,” ini eluding Charlie McCarthy and Eddie f Bcrgon, a newsreel and a highly mi foresting and -well-photographed film ( s of insect life. “Jesse James.” “Jesse James,” that enthralling film 1 , of the old West, commences to-mor- . row at the Plaza Theatre. Tecnnl- ‘ “ colour is a new departure as far as Westerns are concerned, but the ex- • 1 periment is proved to be successful in j the greatest degree. The story is [that of the almost mythical ban i t 1 who carried on a feud against lhe ' ever-advancing railroads. The 'ilrn shows the justification he had for his life of outlawry, in the unscrupulous methods adopted by the agents of the railroad company to obtain the nwessary land. The James boys, who ost their mother when a gang of railway agents set fire to their home during the course of a "business transact wn,” turned outlaw with the idea of n icing the railroads unsafe .for. passengers to travel on. This led to a bi ? of e crime and to the death of one and the 1 escape of the other. Tyrone Power ■ and Henry Fonda take the par’s of s the James brothers, and the cast “ includes Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott, ’> and Slim Summerville. t. i-rr-