"CHINA PASSAGE" TO-NIGHT.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 118, 4 June 1937, Page 12

"CHINA PASSAGE" TO-NIGHT.

Brimming with action and suspense, ; RKO RaQio's new tliriller, ' ' China Passage, ' ' proves a thoroughly satisfying 51m for mystery addicts. It eoncludes at the State Theatre to-night. A lovely young newcomer from Australia, .Constance Worth, makes her American debut as the heroine of the new offeriug and in her role as a feminine agent of the U.S. Customs service gives a flne porformanee. An adventure picture offering a wealth of exeitement, a tender romanee, some of the most speetacular scenes ever photograplied and entertainmenl which should find favour with father, mother, sister and brother comes to the State Theatre to-morrow in "Michael Strogoif, ' ' with Anton Walbrook. As millions who have read the famous story will reeall— -and here, for onee, is a film version of a book tjiat faithfully follows the original plot — "Miehael Strogoff" eoncerns itseif with the perilous journey of its hero across Siberia and through hostile Tartar patrols to reach a besieged Russian army at Irkutsk with the Czar's orders for the campaign. A beautiful woman spy is on his trail; a Russian girl befriends him; he is trapped, battles river pirates, is captured and tortured by the Tartars, but with the aid of the loyal girl, attains his mission and a thrilling revenge over the Tartar ieader.