AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 March 1934, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

THE REGENT. “BOMBAY MAIL.” Bizarre and exotic background—roaring railroad trains, teeming railroad stations, docks and an ocean liner —are among tlie most interesting features of Universal’s gripping “Bombay Mail,” an Oriental murder mystery, which comes to the Regent to-night. A lavish Indian train, the Imperial Indian Mail, is the scene of most of the action. This is a ten car train, with the white private car of the British governor, who is murdered, the most interesting location. Two Indian railroad stations, one shown during the reception given by one maharajah to another, and the other revealed during the night, also form backgrounds for crimes. From a standpoint of colour, the station at Calcutta, where the train starts, and the docks at Bombay, beside an ocean liner, are said to be outstanding. Edmund Lowe is starred in the picture, with Shirley Grey, Onslow Stevens, John Davidson, Brandon Hurst and Hedda Hopper in the supporting cast. Lowe is a British police inspector who, upon finding the British governor dead, starts a thirty-six hour investigation. The train makes a 1200-mile trip through India, and is comparable, from point of service, to the famous British Royal Scot. Seats may be reserved at Perry’s, ’phone 2496. COSY THEATRE. “THE EAGLE AND THE HAWK.” Frcdrie March and Cary Grant play the two leading roles in Paramount’s “The Eagle and the Hawk,” a story of two war-time flyers whose hatred for each other makes them both heroes, which labels the new programme to be screened at the Cosy Theatre tonight. Jack Oakie and Carole Lombard head the supporting cast. “The Eagle and the Hawk” is from a story by John Monk Saunders, author of “Wings.” March and Grant are cast as respectively pilot and observer in the British air corps—March, a skilled, reckless flyer; Grant, a ruthless killer. Together in the air they arc an unbeatable team, but on the ground March and Grant arc the deadliest of enemies. March is disgusted by Grant’s cold delight in killing; Grant is scornful of March’s scruples. The spectacle of death after death begins working on March’s imagination; gradually he begins to break down. And Grant, the first to suspect the fact, begins to feel sympathy for his pilot. It is through Grant that March is sent home on a month’s furlough. He returns to the front freshened, but the events that follow immediately upon his return have a strange effect upon him as the picture reaches its climax. Reserves at Perry ’s, ’phone 2496.