"STAGE COACH” COMING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 169, 20 July 1939, Page 5

"STAGE COACH” COMING

DRAMA OI FRONTIER DAYS With a background of the old West, in the frontier days and Claire Trevor and John Wayne in the leading roles. ' Stage Coach” is to screen on Friday of next week at the I I aza Theaue It is the story of a stage coach’s dash through country terrorised by a murderous band of Apaches, with two women, a gambler. a;i absconding banker, a spirits •drummer,” a drunken doctor, and an outlaw as passengers. The film is remarkable for its sustained suspense, for. from the time the coach sets out the audience is aware of a tenseness that is increased as at each successive halt comes more news of the depredations and atrocities of the Indians. The p:cture culminates in the outlaw, the “Ringo Kid.” seeking his brother s murderers through th? darken-u streets of the town of Lordsberg, and the outcome of their meeting. Sonja Henie. Scan • na . .an ice-darn-ing star, says there is no future in skating films.

Grace Moore <.i\es I p Cloo.immi. Grace loore t worth of Hollywood contrai ls io go to | Paris and make a film of Charpen- • recently turned down Hollywood; offers to appear n Neel Coward’s, •‘Conversation I’.slating that i Hollywood produce;.- had “atrociously I bad taste.” Bottle Design-. sembled in the pr«»pc::y r n-m .i Hal Roa t i - pi • for the patent es Hmy Langdon was • • ■ means of a carnival a n Elephants ■ \ led Artists release. Langdon made his choice. ;>i.dl then the woes of the property de-1 partment began. Bottle designs Lave J changed materially in the last qu c e. ■ of a century. In the fust place they! have been influence'! by the stream-1 lining trend. Again, the nroa 1-lm.w 1 ; kind in which the liquid was on.inedl with a cork has given way to the screw-topped kind. A search of the Los Ange • \ealed that only three of • m k nd I selected by Langdon wer-’ available! at the start of the picture. However, the manufacturers prom* ed to work overtime and produced the required gross on the > ! by :'• I .me Langdon was ready to swing nto his colourful talk on the arniva