REGENT THEATRE
PARAMOUNT CELEBRATES WITH "THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN." "The General Died at Dawn" opened at the Regent Theatre on. Saturday with four sessions, and continued yesterday to two crowded houses, speaking volumes for the popularity of Paramount pictures with the Hastings publie. It augurs well for the remainder of the session at which booking is advised. China is the baekground for this t'ast-mbving Urama ot romance, adventure 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 the country icr centuries. Beautiful blonde Madeline Carroll plays the part of the 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 he: she is ordered to destroy turns to admiration and then to love. Havmg 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 whom he loves by playing to the vanitv of a dying man. Special attention has been paid to tho first half of the programme, which includes ' 1 Knock, Knock — - Wiho's There?," the latest musical novelty, a Popeye Cartoon "Never Kick a Woman," and a Paramount variety newsreel. \
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 9, 26 January 1937, Page 3
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