REGENT THEATRE
"THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN" Hastings, led by the Regent Theatre, jg now celebrating the 25th. an* iurersary ot the tounding of Paramount Pictures, and the management has secured the latest and best of Paramount's output for . sqreening, This is, "The General Died at Dawn."- Modorn; wartorn China is the hackground for this fast-moving drama of romance, adventnre and intrigue. it presents Gary Cooper, as a soldier-of-fortune in the ranks of the people's army engaged in a war of annihilation with the " war lords who have preyed upon th© country fcr centu'ries. Beautiful blonde Madeline Carroll plays the part of th® lure used by a war lord to betray him. The film reveals how a casual interest on the part of the girl in the young hei\. 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 man she betrayed. Cooper, in a desperate gamble, saves his life and that of the girl wnom he loves by playing to the vanity of a dying man. Special attention has been paid to tho first half of the programme, which includes "Knock, Knock Who'e There f," the latest musical novelty, a Popeye Cartoon "Never Kick a Womau," and a Paramount variety newsreel.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 7, 23 January 1937, Page 15
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