ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3913, 2 March 1929, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENT.

TOWN HALL. BLUE-BRONSON CO-STAR IN “BRASS KNUCKLES.” Monte Blue and Betty Bronson are co-starring in “Brass Knuckles,” at the Town Hall to-night. This thrilling human story has to do with a youth of the tenements, who 'while in gaol for a crime he did not commit, incurs the enmity of a prisoner whose plot he divulged. The man, when Zac’s term ends, broods oyer his spite until such time as he gets out, and then it is that he breaks up the home Zac has made for the motherless waif of one of the prisoners. 'Swift, powerful, and heart-stirring are the events which transpire before peace comes again to Zac and the girl, who has grown to womanhood. £10,000,000 SETTING FOR- BRITISH) FILM. What was possibly the most exi pensive setting ever provided for a film, was the loan by the Admiralty of the l battle-icruiser, H.M.'S. Tiger, the cruiser HALS. Champion, destroyers and other auxiliary vessels, the cost of whose construction would he somewhere in the neighbourhood ofi ten millions, for the filming of “Second to None,” a romance of the Royal Navy, in which high patriotism and hoimely service are excellently blended, to be screened on Monday. Some wonderful shots, illustrative of Britain’s might, are to be seen in the film, which is wonderfully interesting, and furnishes authentic atmosphere for a gripping melodrama ,of the endeavours of a young seaman to rise in the Navy that he may marry an old playmate. Moore Marriott, Benita Hu'me, and lan Fleming are the. principals in a line cast.