KING GEORGE THEATRE

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 12, 15 August 1929, Page 5

KING GEORGE THEATRE

SATURDAY Film Play "THliI WHIP," Retains all

Tluills of bLage Melodrama,

A neatly, wrought melodramatic plot, an exceptionally capable and wkell-ckosen cast and all the thrills which made the old-time play famous combine to make "The Whip" First National's current production one of the most entertaining of the season.

"The Whip" opens at the King George Theatre on Saturday, and for those who like their screen entertainment exciting and their plots melodramatic, this will prove a distinct treat. Based on the old Drury Lane melodrama first produced almost a century ago, ' ' The Whip >.' is brought up to date in settings and dress and its.multitudinous thrills are magnified by modern technical skill and photographic ingenuity. It all revolves around a horse race, of course, as the title indicates1, with a great deal resting on the proper horse winning the big Derby and a great many people interest one way or another in having it either won or lost. There are plots and counter-plots, divers bits of conniving and last-minute suspenses, perfectly handled through, the direction of Charles Brabin.

Dorothy Maekaill brings here beauty and charm to the leading feminine role and Ralph Forbes proves an excellent foil in the masculine lead. Anna Q. Nilsson is particularly striking as the beautiful and scheming and L»owell Sherman contributes another 'of his delightfully villainous "heavy" characterisations. Outstanding in the cast are Marc MeDermott, Albert, Arthur Clayton and

others,

ALSO SATURDAY "THE WINGED HORSEMAN"

A western story with an unusual twist is provided in the Universal production "The Winged Horseman" featuring Hoot Gibson and the famous aviatrix, Ruth Elder, which comes to the King George Theatre on Saturday.

Hoot Gibson as "Skyball" a Texas ranger, is commissioned to elucidate the mystery of air bombing raids on a ranch. He arrives at his destination on a motor cycle with a funny boxlike contrivance on the handlebars', and wearing a pair of horn rimmed spectacles .This apparation entirely disarms those he is sent to protect and also the unknown miscreants and leaves him free to carry out his investigations. He gets fresh with the rancher's daughter, whose hobby is flying and she, to get one back on him, takes him for a "joyride" with plenty of nose dives and loops, but doesn't "get the revenge she intended. Why "Skyball" proved so much at "home in the careering plane and how the villains in the plot discovered the meaning of funny little box in front* of Ms motor cycle furnishes a fund of laughs and thrills, while the shooting duel between "Skyball" and the villain while each other are strapped to descenting parachutes forms a fitting climax, to this outstanding Gibson production.

TUESDAY BENITA HUME AS "A LIGHT WOMAN" Those who saw the vivacious new English star —Benita Hume —in "A South

Sea Bubble" recently will no doubt agree that she is a weleome'addition to the ever-increasing ranks of young British film players and, in her second star- ' ring picture "A Light Woman" she will be seen at the King George Theatre on Tuesday. In this production, Miss Hume has" the role of a gay nighty and exceedingly modern young Spanish girl, Dolores. This is a part for which she is particularly suited, as she is a dark and striking brunette and possesses extraordinary Spanish features. As Dolores, she is an irrepressible flirt, and, having a gay old father who suffers from the same complaint, does not think twice about breaking the hearts of amorous -' t young men. It is only when her two lovers, who are close friends, quarrel and threaten each other's life, that she ends her mad escapades and chooses one of them as her life partner. The beautiful Spanish settings and glimpses of life in modern Spain add to the. many attractions of this fascinating picture. All the exterior scenes were actually filmed in Spain, and the beautiful mansion where the Marquis lives is in reality the home, of a wealthy Spanish merchant who Mndly loanecf Ms house to the producers:^ Wednesday, Thursday and Friday WILLIJLM HAINES IN" " ALIAS JpIMY VALENTINE" "Alias\idmmy Valentine" in which William Haines appears in his first big dramatic i'ole ,is to be at the King

George Theatre for a three days' engagement. The star breaks away- for the first time from the breezy farce parts that have made him famous and reveals himself as a dramatic actor of unusual intelligence and ability. Jack Conway directed the picture from a script found !ed on the. tremendous popular stage play of the same name. In additoin to Lelia Hyams, the feminine lead, there are Karl ! Dane of "The Big Parade" fame; Tully Marshall, the noted character actor, 1 and Lionel Barrymore, the stage and ' screen star, in the fine cast. Haines plays the young master cracksman who goes, to rob a small town bank but stays' to start life afresh. He gets a job in the bank and finally becomes a cashier. Incidentally he falls in love with the presidents daughter; His only enemy Detective Doyle ( (Barrymore), arrives in town and exposes Haines but his em-

ployer refuses to believe the accusations of Haines ' past when a most dramatic climax takes part..

"Alias1 Jimmy Valentine" is one-of the greatest motion pictures screened for year, t ;