REGENT THEATRE
Paramcunt celebrates wtih "The Cenerai Died at ^avtrn." "The General Died at Dawn" opened at the Itegent Theatre on Saturday . with four sessions, speaking volumes for the popularity of Paramount pictures with the Hastings publie. It augurs wfell for the remainder of the sefcsion at which booking is advised. China is the background for this tast-inuving Urania oi romance, aclventure and intrigue. It presenta 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 the counbry i r centuries. Beautiful blonde Madeline Carroll plays the part of the lure used by' a war lord to betray him ihe film reveals how a casual interest in the part of the girl in the young he she is ordered to destroy turns to admiration and then to love, Havlttg trapped him, and h&ving herself become entneshed in the web of intrigue she helped to Wehve, sh© offers het life for that of the m&n she bettayed.
Cooper, in a desperate gamble, saves his life and that of the girl whom he loves by playing to the vanitv of a dymg man. * 1 Special attention has been paid to the fifst half of the programme, which. ihcludes "'Knoek, Knoek — Wiho's There?,." the lafest musieal novelty, a Popeye Cartoon "JSTever Kick a W6man," and a Paramount yariety newsreel. .,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 8, 25 January 1937, Page 11
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