MAJESTIC THEATRE

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

MAJESTIC THEATRE

LAST DAY: “EX CHAMP” ANI) “REVENGE RIDER" „

Concluding to-night at the Majestic Theatre is a double programme which has proved to be very popular with the week-end audiences. Heading the programme is ‘'Ex-Champ,” a powerful human story starring Victor McLaglen. The associate feature is “Revenge Rider,” starring Tim McCoy. Added attractions are chapter two of “The Oregon Trail," the latest war scenes, and the 1939 Melbourne Cup. -To-morrow: Karloff in “The Invisible Menace,” and “Penrod and his Twin Krothcr”A combination of thrills and laughs and romance is the Warner Bros, mystery-melodrama, "The Invisible Menace,” which opens to-morrow at the Majestic Theatre with Boris Karloff as US' star. No one need be afraid that he is going lo see anything gruesome or spine-freezing just because the great Karloff’s name is mentioned. As a matter of fact, there are as many laughs as there are nerve tingles in this movie—and Karloff does not even wear an outlandish make-up. He plays an ordinary, middle-aged civil engineer, and there is nothing horrifying about that breed. The picture—made from the successful Broadway stage play of the same name —deals with a murder in a Government arsenal, and cuts away, part of the time, to the island of Haiti, with its revolutions, voodoo jungle rites and the like. Eddie Craven, imported from New York to play the same part he did on the stage, and pretty, blonde Marie Wilson, provide the romance and most of the comedy. The associate feature is "Penrod and His Twin Brother,” starring the Mauch twins, Billy and Bobby. In the story also are the “Junior G-Men,” who made their first appearance in “Penrod and Sam.” Other familiar and beloved characters appear—Rodney Bitts, the little cheat who tries to take Penrod’s place as No. 1 G-man: his father, played by Charles Halton, who is Penrod’s father’s boss; Frank Craven, again doing the part of "Dad Schofield”; Spring Byington, once more Penrod’s Ma, and of course, the amusing little black boy Verman, played by Philip Ilurlic.