AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 48, 24 June 1938, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

- “LOVE ON.HHE RUN” Plenty •of fun and romantic excitement is ip. store for Opotiki filmgoers tliis week-end, witli the coming of “Love on the Run,” a new Merto-Goldwyn-Mayer smash flit ;co-starring Joan Crawford and piark Gable with Prancliot Tone featured at the head of a, top-notch supporting cast. Here are the highlights: “Love on the Run” teams Miss Orawford, Gable and Tone for the first time since their memorable success in ‘Dancing Lady’. It is the production in which Miss Crawford-and Gable, the popular favourites of ‘‘Forsaking All Others,” “Chained” and./ “Possessed” celebrate their fifth anniversary co-starring appearance. The spirited, ultra-modern, comedy melodrama presents Miss Crawford as an American heiress who leaves a pompous nobleman at the altar and runs into Gable as she flees from the church right into trouble. Gable playp the. foreign correspondent of a New York newspaper who- bumps into the biggest-scoop in headline history. Tone is -cast as Gable’s rival who chases the two lovers in a mad dash over the map of Europe. Also prominent in the cast are Reginald Owen and Mona Barrie as'deep-dyed villains who head a spy ring.

DAN FOILEY —QOLDEN-VOICED TENOR PERSONAL APPEARANCE "One of the most popular singers New Zealand has ever taken to its heart, is Dan Foley, the Irish Tenor. Patrons o*f Opotiki will doubtless be delighted to learn that he is to make Xiersonal appearances on the stage of the De-Luxe Theatre, Saturday ahd Monday next. Daii Foley lias been well described as ‘‘New Zealand’s John McCormack”. He did a broadcasting tour of New Zealand for the National Stations and has recently been under engagement to the Commercial Stations, and he proved one of the greatest favourites ever to be heard on the radio in this country, receiving as many as 2QO requests from listeners at a single recital. M r Foley has appeared in concerts with Cliostiakoff, the noted Fred Perrin, the famous English comedian, and Gladys Moncrieff. During his local appearances he will sing .all the favourite Irish songs in which people everywhere delight. His reper-

toire includes the famous rebel song, “Shall My Soul Pass Through Ireland”, “Smiling Irish Eyes”, “Diet Your Mother Oome Prom Ireland”, “Father O’Flynn”, etc. The singer is no>v making a farewell tour of New Zealand prior to departing for South Africa where he will undoubtedly acliieve fresh triumphs. Doubtless, local residents will not miss' the opportunity of being entertained by/ Dan Foley before he departs - and to give him the rousing send-off which he thoroughly deserves. < 'KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOUR’ ’ Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat, one of the most glamorous romantic teams in screen history, come to', the De Luxe .Theatre on Tuesday .when Alexander Korda’s “Knight Without Armour” begins a . two-day, engagement there.

Fittingly enough, their vehicle is one of the greatest love stories of all time, from the pen of the famous James Hilton who wrote “Goodbye Mr Chips” and “Lost Horizon.”, “Knight, Without Armour” .easts the exotic ' Marlene as an allhring Russian countess, and Donat is -seen as a mysterious modern knight errant whose hatred" hares into a flame of protective love as they live through a series of stirring adventures, knowing moments of incomparable liorror and bliss a s they flee from the countless terrors that ; threaten to tear them apart. •