The Theatres
REGENT.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with matinees Wednesday and Friday. "White Banners" Claude Rains, Fay Bainter. Bonita Granville, Jackie Cooper, Henry O'Neil, James Stevenson. The year's most sincere and entertaining picture, from the inspired pen of Lloyd C. Douglas, Avith all the emotional and dramatic power of his never-to-be-forgotten "Green Light" and "Magnificent Obsession." A throb with the drama, ablaze with the thrills that made it America's best-loved book, "White Banners" now comes to the screen as one of the most powerful human motion pictures of the year. Also Walt Disney's' latest cartoon "Society Dog Show."
GRAND. Wednesday and Friday. "The Legend of Prague" Special. A brilliant cast of Continental artists. The most amazing impressive spectaele ever conceived. Banned by Hitler, this Czeeho-Slovakian production, with English dialogue, was adapted from the famous stage play "The Golem" Although the setting of this film is in 1700, and thereabouts, the story might Avell have been inspired by the present day progroms which have so shocked the Avorld. The tormented Jews, in their agony, pray for dcliA'erance, and their prayers are answered in a Avay unthought of, even in their Avildest hopes. When intolerance ruled, an Empire fell! Will history repeat itself? Yon Avill be amazed at the colossal scale of this momentous picture. "Smashing the Rackets" Chester Morris, Farnces Mercer Bruce Cabot, Rita Johnson. A poAverful and pulsating drama of the underworld. . . Watch this cx-G man move in on the racketeers the law couldn't reach. . . Vividly and realistically disclosing lioav a fearless prosecutor AA'orks to break the stranglehold that a ruthless band of racketeers have on a great city, "Smashing the Rackets" is one of the most significant pictures of the year.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 82, 1 November 1939, Page 4
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