KING GEORGE THEATRE

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 6, 28 June 1928, Page 5

KING GEORGE THEATRE

NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAMMES j MONDAY AND TUESDAY. "TWELVE MILES OUT" John Gilbert's Thrilling Latest. John Gilbert is a man of many surprises to movie-goers. He has just unloaded the biggest of his brilliant career in '' Twelve Miles Out;'' the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer special production to be shown on Monday and Tuesday; In "Twelve Miles Out" Gilbert appears as a lone-hand adventurer, mixing unique thrills, breathless adventure, hair-raising sensations and bewitching love in a picture packed full of novel entertainment. The story is one of adventure on the high seas, based .mainly on the latest phase of American life—bootlegging—or the incessant war between the ruim-run'ner and ithej law?. Romance, however 4s pare of the caTgo, and the blend will keep onlookers tenderly sympathetic when they are not on tiptoes of sheer excitement, as it were, at the terrific battle of wits, fists, iron bars and pistols which finally takes place to settle.a long-stand-ing feud between Gilbert and his main rival.

This unique attraction provides Gilbert with his most aggressive role. Joan Crawford plays opposite him and gives a brilliant and sympathetic performance. Ernest Torrenee is east opposite Gilbert, his rum-running rival] J WEDNESDAY, THTTOSDAY, TRIDAY "THE COUNTRY BEYOND" James Oliver Curwood's Big Thriller. When we think of James Oliver Curwood we naturally think of the great NoTth "Woords. In this picture, how"ever, we not only have a thrilling story of the outdoors, ibut also an alluring drama of Broadway night life, replete with fascinating femininity. Beautiful Olive Borden has the greatest role of her career, first as the gorgeous, Untamed beauty of the woodland, and later as the magnificent dancer who •brought her feet #to Broadway, and brought Broadway to her feet. The women will marvel at the lavish displays of gorgeous gowns and magnificent settings, and the men will enjoy the virile drama of the primeval wilderness. Bebe Daniels in "SHE'S A SHIEE:" A beautiful brunette, in love with, a handsome hero, who's equally in love with a ravishing blonde—and a hard-boiled Sahara Herman, intent on i marrying the Sheik's daughter! Place j in a pot,' several thousand Arabs, a camel or two, a horde of Foreign Legionnaires, starry nights, a leopard cage, heroic sword play, and what've you got? "She's a Sheik," the screamingest farce Bebe N Daniels has ever had! A Clarence Badger Paramount comedy, with Richard Arlen and a William Powell. SATtTEDAY. Louise Fazenda. becomes a Blonde in "CRADI*E SNATCHEBS" Louise Fazenda, undergoes a complete transformation in "Cradle Snatchers," a Howard Hawks production for Fox Films. In this picture Mr Hawks wanted a dazzling blonde to. play the part of Susan Martin. Miss Fazenda, while dazzling, is not blonde. So the director ordered the smartest bloade wig in Hollywood and told the hairdressers to do their stuff. The result was pleasing, sta-rtling and wholly satisfactory. It was the first time the dashing little comedienne had worn such trappings. She was amazed at th& change.

In "Cradle Snatchers" Miss Fazenda has the role of one of three wives who discover that their husbands have taken three blondes on a trip to the country instead of going fishing on " a launch. A»d it is she "'who-hires three college boys to act a.«j sheiks to arouse the husbands' jealousies. The complications which follow are the funniest ever staged and had Broadway audiences shouting with laughter.

"OIiD SAN TRANOISCO" "Old San Francisco," the Warner Bros, extended run production which portrays the lurid days of Chinatown and the Barbary Coast, before and during the "G-reat Fire," is acclaimed as one of the finest melodramas of the crr>7ieration. Beautiful Dolores •ostello plays the paTt of a Spanish heiress who is kidnapped by a half-caste boss of San Francisco's underworld, and goes through weird experiences and horrors whJch. all terminate with the furious onslaught of nature a- 'the Great Fire wiiicTi relegatos the " vile of hell" to oblivion;