AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20099, 20 November 1939, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE “THE STORY OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL”: LAST DAY One of America's most thrilling stories—the miraculous achievement and stirring romance of the inventor of Ilia telephone, Darryl F. Zanuck’s production of “The Story of Alexander Graham Bel!,” starring Don Ameche, Loretta Young and Henry Fonda, finishes at the King’s Theatre to-night. —The Ritz Bros, in “The Gorilla”: Riotous Comedy To-morrow

By popular demand the hilarious thriller, “The Gorilla," latest manifestation of the oddities of the Ritz. Brothers, will begin to-morrow a three-day season at the King's Theatre. With them is an outstanding cast which includes Anita Louise. Patsy Kelly, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Joseph Calieia, Edward Norris and Wally Vernon. The action takes place in a house that is a maze cf sliding panels. The time is something close to midnight—in the midst of a raging thunderstorm. The hostjias just received a note from the Gorilla threatening ■ him with murder at midnight. Into this scene wander our detectives. Then the fun begins in earnest.

—“Four Feathers”: Tcchnicolour Special, Friday—

Alexander Korda’s newest production, directed by his brother Zoltan, rates easily among their best joint efforts and certainly among the finest British dramas to reach the screen. It is the screen version of the A. E. W. Mason classic, “Four Feathers,” which commences an extended season at the King’s Theatre on Friday. It is a talc of military adventure in the desert country of the Nile at the time of Kitchener's Sudan campaign, not merely a colour spectacle, but also a stirring story of human courage against long and terrific odds. Leading players are John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, June Duprez and Allan Jeayes. The colour is superb and the camera work (lawless. A moving note of heroism is outlined against the background of the tale of the young Englishman, branded a coward by his fellows, who sets out to rehabilitate himself, and it is acted to rehabilitate himself. The box plans opened to-day.