AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 39, 1 June 1938, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“FRAME-UP” “The Frame-up,” Colunibia drama of a two-listed, race track detective who battles a gang of big-city, gamblers to a standstill when they attempt to “fix” the year’s biggest race, will be screened at the Dc Luxe Theatre on Thursday and Friday. Paul Kelly is featured in the leading role with Jacqueline Wells, George McKay, Robert -Emmett O’Connor and C. Montague Shaw in support. The film was written for the screen by Harold Shumate. D. Ross Lederiiian directed. In brief, the story deals with a bold plan of a gang of gamblers to substitute a . track recordbreaker for an undistinguished entry iu the Granville Sweepstakes. The gamblers are certain the ‘‘ringer” will win, cashing in in the meantime on the terrific odds offered on the real entry. Kelly, as chief of the State Racing Commission detectives, attempts to spoil the scheme, but the gamblers checkmate him bv kidnapping Ids secretary and depositing a handsome sum to his bank credit to- make it appear as a bribe. With the day of the Big Race approaching. events take a dramatic turn, leading up to a last-paced, ac-tion-packed climax. ”| COVER THE WAR” “I Cover the War,” a saga of the modern-day gentlemen of fortune, the news-reel cameramen, comes to the l)e Luxe Theatre Thursday and Friday. Little known Ira, in an, obscure corner of 'Mesopotamia-, is the locale for this novel and thrilling subject which portrays. John Wayne as the cameraman who follows the news, even though his job • takes him into storms of machine gun bullet's and into the lairs of savage desert tribes whose specialty has been throat-slit-ting for uncounted centuries! .‘‘l Cover the War” is crammed with action, from the, moment Roll Adams leaves New York with orders toj get moving pictures of Muffadhi, bandit Arab chieftaic. Muffadhi is ’ • \ .

Gisborne Boxer Turns Pro. ’ A challenge to tlio winner of the McKay-Kelly professional boxing bout staged at Gisborne on Saturday night was offered from the ring on behalf of Neville Davy, the Gisborne lightweight who represented Poverty Bay: in hi s division of the 1937 amateur boxing championships. Davy lias not yet fought as a professional, and his record to date has little of the length and brilliance of that of either Kelly or McKay, but he has shown marked ability in his amateur performances. Davy is well-known to Opotiki boxing enthusiasts.