WAIPAWA THEATRE
" The Lonely Road " Clive Brook's latest picture, "The Lonely Road/'' shoiving at the Waipawa j Ilegient to-moriow and Monday, prebents hira in the charaCterisation considerably difl'erent from his previous : roles. Here he is seen as an ex-subtuar-iiie commander turned Secret Service agent. Victoria Hopper eo-starr.ed, alsp is seen m a new role, -that of a dance I partner in a Midland dance hall. In the ' story, Commander Brcok goes out on ■ a none-too-sober car drive, and arrives : at the seaside place where gun running is going on under ihe guise of "earpe,t: sweeper ' delivety. Heceiving a mysterious craek on th head, he is connnend-' ed by his doctor to a Scottish holida.Yj 1 and en route falls in With Molly, a dance- hall girl who naively cotifesseR that her brother is a lorry driver of j "cai'pet sweepers.'» FoHowing up the 1 clue, the commander persuades Molly; to accompany him to the gun running scene of operatiohs, and here is stagnfJ n battle of -wits involving Scot'a"d Vard, vStevenson's lawyer act-ing on behalf of the girl, and the apparently guilty brother, the end coming with the
commander' s physical tiltiligs with the erooks and the ddscovery of a plot to swa-y the forthfcoming general election. Suppoftmg ihe eo-stars are uotably, Nora Bwinburae, Malcolm Kaeo, Charles Farrell, Laurenee Hanray. Frederick Peisley, Ethel Coleridge and Denia Wyndham. ,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 76, 16 April 1937, Page 7
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227WAIPAWA THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 76, 16 April 1937, Page 7
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