ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20433, 25 February 1938, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT PROGRAMMES CIVIC THEATRE The Hurricane.” with it* tender its powerful drama, its picaresque setting and its amazing ellmax. U a fine production. On the mile* from T ♦ ft.tf, two native sweethearts. Teranri and Mir. i. are wed. Their orfef happiness i> shattered when reranci. r»dtirnim; to Tahiti on the tradtn- »rf r . r ~f which he is first mat*, is tnipri- ri"d for striking a whit- man who lri-»i!t* Mm. After fl\* >*ars of im»M'*eAs«ful attempt* th* hoy escapes from Tahiti an i 1 B*«",rj«r tfin jjr. pfaca ble «en*e »>f duty f,r the French Administrator. hou*\*r. he i« forced to hide on a oetarhhoiirinr *.?and. The search for ourriran* h-t ns to Mow up. Unmindful of hi- own safety. »he youth I - | rn the inhablant«. In the fury that follows he Mays a heroic part, and the hurricane Tie r|jp «\rs the screen ha* shown. THEATRE ROYAL Two entertaining presentations will he srre-ned to-day. are full >nsth products. in-* and combine to form an : . me. The •ret pletu • i • Thunder Trail, '* and i- . screen adaptation of the no\p| of the -am- name by the popular Western writer Zine Grey. The rttun roles are taken by Charles Bickford. Marsha Hunt and Gilbert Roland, and the supporting cast is headed by .1. Carrol Naish, James Craig, Monti Blui md Barlowe Borland. The picture lias a thrilling theme and d-r <•♦«* the rush to a newlvdfsrovered soldfield. together with the bitter hostility of two men who carry on a feud as the result of a murder eommitt-d years •previously. The second film. ***#n Such a Night.** features Karen Moriey and Grant Richards and tells in graphic fashion the storv of refugees from a flood in the Mississippi V . ley. It is a drama of revenge, and the exciting theme holds the tense interest of the audience The flood scenes are verv re»Ifstle. STATE THEATRE “Roll Along. Cowboy.” is the screen fng buckaroo. Smith Itallew. a wellknown sinainr cowboy. •> cast in l!ie leading ro|*- and has there new cowboy ballads to sin-' — -tars fiver the Desert.*' ‘ Bon Along. Ride Kin. Cowboy." and ‘'On the Sunny of the Rockies The story begins when Smith Ballew. in the part of a cowboy, and hJ» partner who Is portrayed by Stanley Fields are given promissorynotes Instead of cash for their work on a neighbouring ranch. Fields, having unsuspectingly cashed one of the notes, finds that h s partner and himself are involved tn a plot contrived by their neighbour and his lawyer to gain control of th- property. The partners learn in time of their enemies’ plana to stamped- the cattle fo prevent their being rounded up for sale to pay off the note, and a thrilling combat with the rustlers marks the climax to this exciting picture. “That's My Story” mixes comedy and sensation very entertainingly. The cast includes Ralph Morgan, Claudia Morgan and Herbert Mundin. REGENT THEATRE The action of * China ?ea»" lakes place aboard the wheezy old liner Kin Lurie, as *h<- twit* down thr coast from Hongkong to Singapore, bearing a strangely assorted, group of white people in her cabins and a wild assortment of Malay gangsters in her forecastle. The plot deals with fierce loves, bitter hates, and dangerous intrigues. ana is played against a background of tropical hurricanes and | ■ Lung and r.II but disable her. Pirates capture her and torture the skipper (Clark Gable . But the physical thrills only keep pace \vi:h the tempestuous 1 i Gable as a hard-bitten seafaring man, Jean liarlovv as a woman of the Oriental ports, and Wallace Beery, bluff ' ■ - affections. MY DEAR MIS? ALDRICH** If there is any serious doubt as to woman's ability tn competition with man. there fs Amusing argument for the (a r -ex in ”My Gear Miss Aldrich.” which will be screened on Saturday. This is the story of a school teacher who inherit** a new-paper. with arnusROXY THEATRE ' du. Vr- If deals With ore of the most . . sympathise with Angela Shale, the . intending to ke*p the independence of her single days and who finds herself in perpetual »• ntlict with her husband the result. Men will understand the problem of the y .iing husband. Dick, who hankered after an old-fashioned wife, a real l me and a baby. ■’Armoured Gar” presents a new phase of the constant battle between the law and the underworld. It deals with the transportation of *ash and securities m steel-protected, heavily.guarded pay-roll cars, and the attempts of a oAavex, ruthless criminal to rob them. -THE LOSI HORIZON** A strong double-feature programme, ‘The Lost Horizon** and Fury Over Spain. ’ will be screened to-morrow.