ACADEMY AND MINERS' THEATRE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9588, 18 October 1940, Page 2

ACADEMY AND MINERS' THEATRE

WEEK-END PROGRAMMES

Graphically presenting a littleknown chapter of history dealing with slave running between Hawaii and California in 1840, Universale adventure drama, "Mutiny on the Blackhawk," now showing at the Academy. Co-starring Richard Arlen

and Andy Devine, the picture's supporting cast includes Constance Moore, Noah Beery, and Guinn ("Big Boy") Williams. Stressing action, thrills and dramatic suspense, highlights of the swiftly-paced him feature a wild mutiny aboard a slaveship on the high seas, the bartering of natives in a tropical paradise and powerful battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican army. Based on an original screenplay by Michael L. Simmons, the story reveals many colourful events leading up to California joining the union. Monogram's thrilling mystery production. "Mr Wong in Chinatown," which will be shown at the Academy Theatre to-morrow, is certain to please the most seasoned follower o'' (he fortunes of screen detectives, for not only is thai brilliant character actor, Boris Karloff, in the title role. hut the picture itself has an atmosphere of mystery which is often lacking in cinema crime stories. The film continues the adventures of James Lee Wong, the Chinese super-sleuth, who has already helped the San Francisco police with some difficult cases. "Mr Wong in Chinatown" gives James Lee Wong unlimited scope, as it concerns die murder of a Chinese princess, commissioned by her government to purchase planes in tha United States. In the supporting p'clure, "Maizie," Robert Young and. /villi Sothern share Hie starring honours as a ranch manager and a showgirl respectively, stranded in a Wyoming carnival town. Both Miss Sol hern and Young show what they can do with good roles and entertain-ment-packed situations in this story which, although placed against eyestriking and picturesque backgrounds of the cattle country, is not a Western in the accepted sense, but is an original and highly modern story of four people placed in dramatic juxtaposition. How a two-fisted lawyer smashes a reign of terror in a wild Western community and brings peace and oic'ier to (he district, forms the act-ion-packed basis of George O'Brien's latest outdoor drama, "Legion of th" Lawless," lo be shown at the Miners' Theatre to-morrow.