MINERS' THEATRE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9211, 23 April 1938, Page 3

MINERS' THEATRE

DOUBLE-STAR PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT A double-feature bill will be shown this evening. Alan Dinehard gives one of the most engaging characterisations of his busy career as a dynamic, blustering garment manufacturer in "Dangerously Yours," Twentieth Century-Fox picture featuring Cesar Romero and Phyllis Brooks The thrilling screen play by Lou Breslow and John Patrick, directed by Mai St. Clair, also includes Jane Darwell in the cast, in the second picture, "The Great Gambini," Akim Tamiroff takes delight in pointing out clues to a pair of goofy detectives, William Demarest and Edward Brophy, and then, just as they are about to arrest the whole party, heshows, just as calmly, and just as conclusively, that nobody there could possibly have committed the crime. TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.

The tallest man in Basutoland, South Africa, was discovered, by Geoffrey Barkas, in charge of special native scenes for the thrilling G.-8.-D. film, "King Solomon's Mines," taken from 11. Rider Haggard's great story and showing at the Miners' Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday next. Johannes Matsu, spotted by Barkas six months ago at a native festival and signed up to appear in this picture, is seven feet tall. He is a very talented concert singer. The wardrobe department had to provide a pair of boots measuring 2S inches for his outsize proportions, and it took 20 grey ape skins to manufacture his caroos, a variation of our opera cloak. The brilliant cast that brings Haggard's unforgettable characters to the screen includes Cedric Hardwicke, Paul Robeson, Roland Young, John Lodcr and Anna Lee, who are supported by hudreds of small part players and extras. "Love on the Run" will come to the theatre on Thursday and Friday next, celebrating the reunion of that most delightful of love teams —Joan Crawford and Clark Gable—in their ing All Others." Marked by the difirst picture together since "Forsakrectorial wizardry of W. S. Van Dyke who must be getting tired of the plaudits heaped upon him for "San Francisco," "Rose Marie," and "His Brother's Wife," the new CrawfordGable romance unfolding itself to be one of the most engaging and entertaining comedy melodramas of the year.