AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 14 October 1933, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

THE REGENT. ‘‘CHRISTOPHER STRONG.” Katherine Hepburn lias the part of an alluring and adventurous aviatrix in ‘‘Christopher Strong,” an RKORadio picture which heads the new programme to be presented at the Regent Theatre this evening. Other fea-, tured players are Colin Clive, Billie Burke, Helen Chandler, and Ralph Forbes. The aviatrix, who has pursuing sensation in aeroplanes, automobiles and speed boats, meets Sir Christopher North, who has been conservatively devoted for twenty years to his wife and to Parliamentary documents. On an early morning occasion, the aviatrix, Lady Cynthia Darrington, and the politician go up in Cynthia’s ’plane. This is the beginning of a love affair and the hitherto respectable politician leaves his wife, consents to his daughter’s “modern” marriage, scorns social restrictions, and forgets Parliament. Katherine Hepburn makes her second notable screen appearance as the alluring aviatrix. Colin Clive lends his British polish to a natural role, and Billie Burke enacts the conservative wife. Helen Chandler is a likeable daughter, and Ralph Forbes portrays her married lover. Reserves at Perry ’s, ’phone 2496. COSY THEATRE. “WHITE ZOMBIE.” The new programme to be presented at the Cosy this evening is headed by “White Zombie.” This is an eerie I mystery picture, which is said to outdo in sheer, horror its predecessors in the same field. A dark spirit-haunted roadway, echoing with the funeral chant of natives; a gloomy stronghold, perched on a rocky promontory surrounded by rolling breakers; a mill worked in the dead of night by revivified corpses; such scenes as these form a fitting background to the weird and sombre theme. The picture attacks from a new angle the subject of the domination of one mind by another. A bride collapses at the wedding feast, and is pronounced dead; but when, later, the distraught husband goes to the mausoleum, he finds it open and empty. Together he and a clergyman (Joseph Cawthorn) set out for the Mountains of Death in search of the vanished bride. It is only after the most horrible experiences in the gloomy castle of the master of the Zombies that their goal is reached. Reserves at Perry ’s, ’phone 2496.