MUNICIPAL THEATRE
ESOAPE FBOM SEVHi'S ISLAND" The dreaded Devil's Island, painted in fact and fiction as the hell-hole of the tropics, serves as the locale for a highly exciting melodrama called "Eseape from Devil's Island," a new Columbia film which openis to-night at the Municipal Theatre. Vietor Jory is seen as an adventurous international spy who escapes a sentence to Devil's island only to go there voluntarily in a mad attempt to free his compatriot-in-crime and the father of his sweetheart, Florence Rice. Stanley Andrews, the old convict, includes Norman Foster, a young, falsely -condemned prisoner, in the escape plans. A strange love triangle of confused royaities results when Foster meets and falls in love with Florence Rice, though he is aware of her relationship with the man respon* nible for his freedom. The romantie I tlieme takes a tragic turn, climaxed by a novoi and exciting denouement. Jory,
Rice, and Foster do splendily in theii respective rol&s. The second attraction is "Law Beyond the Range," a Western adventure story with the popular Tlm McCoy in the chief rolc.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 30, 19 February 1937, Page 13
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