MINERS' THEATRE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9209, 14 April 1938, Page 3

MINERS' THEATRE

TO-NIGHT'S AND EASTER PROGRAMMES Despite the breakneck pace of many of its scenes, not a bone was broken during the filming of Harold Bell Wright's "The Californian," the Twentieth Century-Fox release of the early West which stars Ricardo Cortez, showing to-night at the Miners' Theatre. And this is a remarkable statement in view of the fact that the characters literally took their lives in their hands during the filming of many sequences for the picture. Enormous stones were rolled down a steep mountainside to halt the escape of gold thieves; there were furious battles between a bandit gang and the sheriff's posse; men settled their differences in terrific hand-to-hand fights on horseback; pursued and pursuers dashed at breakneck speed down steep mountain trails; cowboys fell headlong from their mounts while dashing at a mad gallop. Gus Meins, veteran director, declared after filming was completed that he had never before made a picture in which the element of danger was so constantly present, nor in which the action maintained such a furious pace. Leading feminine roles in "The Californian" are played by Marjorie Weaver and Katherine DeMille, and the supporting cast also includes Nigel de Brulier and Morgan Wallace.

To-morrow, Good Friday, night, Katharine Hepburn will be heeu in her latest starring vehicle, "A Woman Rebels, in which is depicted a young woman, filled wtih the zest of life, keenly intelligent, fretting under the restrains and barriers of an artificial and stilted social code, breaking bounds and seeking romance when opportunity first knocks at her window.

On Saturday there will be a double star programme. The latest criminal identification methods, as applied to racehorses are employed on the screen for the first time in "The Frame-up," the Columbia feature with Paul Kelly as a racing commission detective and Jacqueline Wells as his secretary, The second picture will be "Born

Reckless," with Brian Donlevy, who played the part of the brash driver in "Midnight Taxi," riding the bulletswept streets again and playing opposite Rochelle Hudson. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Wallace Beery will appear in Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer's production, "Ciood Old Soak," Here is a character who is infinitely lazy, unforgettably lovable and forever human. You remember Beery in "Old Hutch." He is even better as the beloved character who squares tlie troubles of his family circle. He gives you a merry-go-round of family mirth and a veritable money-go-round with the family fortune. In brief, be is America's most lovable loafer.