REGENT THEATRE
"THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN" Hastings, led by' the Regent Theatre, is to-morrow celebrating the 25th anniversary of the founding of Paramount Pictures, and the management has seo tired the latest and best of Paramount' s output for screening. This is, "The General Died at Dawn." Modern, wartorn China is the background for this fast-moving drama of romance, adventure and intrigue. It presents Gary Cooper, as a soldier-of-fortune in tlie ranks of the people' s army engaged in a war of annihilation with the war lords who have preyed npon the country for centuries. Beautiful blonde Madcline Carroll plays the part of the lure used by a war lord to betray liim. The film'reveals how a casual interest on the part of the girl in the young hero she is ordered to destroy turns to admiratjon and then to love. Having trapped him, and having herself become enmeshed in the web of intrigue she helped to weave, she offers her life for that of the mau she hetrayed. Uooper, in a desperate gamble, saves his life and that of the girl whom he loves bv playing to the vanitv of a dying man. ' The first half of tlie programme inclndes the latest musical novelty, "Knock. Knock — Who's There?" FINALLY TO-NIGHT The final screening takes place tonight of "Spendthrift," starring Henry Fonda, Pat Patterson and Mary Brian. Fonda, a millionaire, goes broke playing the races but all turns out happily with the aid of the girl and a horse.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 6, 22 January 1937, Page 11
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