AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20030, 31 August 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATEE LAST DAY: “MEN WITH WINGS” AND “CAMPUS CONFESSIONS” The lengthy and outstanding midweek double bill will conclude tonight at the Majestic Theatre. “Men With Wings” 'is a cavalcade of aviation in full Technicolour, starring Fred. Mac.Wurray, Ray Milland sod Louise Campbell. The associate feature is a college story with a basketball 'background. “Campus Confessions." —To-morrow: Spy Drama, “Hotel Imperial," and “While New York Sleeps”—

ThrilLqg romance and drama, born amid the turmoil of a world at war, marks “Hotel Imperial.” which will head to-morrow's new programme a! the. Majestic Theatre. Featuring the American film debut of the lovely Isa Miranda, a reigning favourite of the European stage and screen, and 'notable also for the occasional song offerings of the Don Cossack choir, the film presents a cast of well-proven players, including'Ray Milland, who himself an ex-Guardsman in England, plays a role entirely in keeping with his dashing

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style. 'Danger and chaos in. an area disputed by Austrian and Russian troops in I£>l6 form the background for many brilliant spectacle sequences. Miranda is seen as a fiery Continental ■beauty, somewhat in the manner cf Dietrich at her best, who works at the hotel as a maid, with the object, cf finding out why her sister killed herself. She suspects that a dashing Polish-born officer in the Austrian forces is the man whom she seeks. After planning to give him up to the authorities, for he has been separated from his regiment and is forced to pose as a waiter behind the enemy lines, i she learns her mistake in time to plead for his life, and the story moves to a climax with the arrival of the real criminal, a spy, a part played by J. Carrol Naish. Those reckless roving reporters, Michael Whalen and Chick Chandler, are in again. This time the nonesuch newshounds do their work in “While New York Sleeps,” which involves the boys in a murder so mystifying that it has to be solved twice. In fact, the boys get the police on their own trail when they find themselves in the embarrassing position of having solved the crime before it was committed—and then find the “victim” murdered a second time. The programme will open with the third chapter of the Buck Rogers' serial.