AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 27, 29 April 1938, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

‘-‘KID CALAMAD” With three famous stars heading its east—Betti* Davis, Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart a drama called “Kid Galahad” will have its local premiere on Saturday at the De Luxe Theatre. .Made from the best-selling novel by Francis Wallace, ace sports fiction ist, ibis Warner Bros.’ thriller deals not only with those elements of the boxing ring with which everyone is familiar, hut with the hehiiid-scenes manoeuvring of lighters and managers. lbddie Robinson, (staunchly hacked by his girl friend, “Fluff,” played by Miss Davis) has one contender l'or the championship. Bogart lias another. There’s an 11-round fight, for the championship (said to be the most fiery ever thrown upon a scrceij), a duel to. the death between the* two managers after the light, some vast scenes of Madison Square Garden — and’ yet. withal a tender romance between Eddie’s fighter and Eddie’s sister. Besides the three well-established stars previously-mentioned, there’s a new star, revealed in the person of Wayne Morris, a 23-year-old newcomer who plays “Kid Galahad” big handsome blonde hoy who gets the name because, lie has reverent ideas about womanhood. And ai new young leading lady i. lithe person of Jane Bryan, with whom lie falls in. hive. Michael Curtiz, the director who made; “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” “Captain Blood” and other last-moving photoplays, guided the making of this, from, a screen; play by Seton I. Miller, adapted from the Wallace novel. “GENERAL SWANKY” On the same programme Spanky McFarland and the Our Gang Kids will he seen in the uproarious full length comedy “General Spanky”.