AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 56, 13 July 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE” “We Who are About to Die”, which screens at the De Luxe Theatre on Thursday and Friday and stars Preston Foster, John Beal, and Ann Dvorak, is daring, sensational and teeming with thrills. You have never seen a. picture like “We AN ho Are About To Die”. There have been other photoplays featuring some phase of prison life; hut no picture dealing with mien in prison has ever had wliat this picture has. Here is a drama with a punch—from men in cells, men in “Condemned Row” sentenced criminals awaiting death ; it is a picture women can enjoy without a shudder, men can approve without- a qualm. “HOT ABATER” Dad is boiling, the kids are in a stow and the whole Jones Family’s all steamed up over the election in their most uproarious, human hit, ‘‘Hot AVater,” latest in the famous Twentieth Century-Fox series, which opens Thursday at the De Luxe Theatre. Directed by Frank R- Strayer, with Max Golden as associate producer. “Hot Water” shows Dad Jones tossing liis hat in the ring in an attempt to clean up the town of Maryville. The pangs of civic conscience have convinced Dad that the town needs a reform administration, and the family thinks he is the man for the job. It is a notorious night-club running under wliat seems to he official immunity that fires the anger of Dad Jones, especially when his young son Jack begins to frequent the place. The campaign that follows seems to lie a landslide for the Jones ticket until the owners of -“The Red Alill ’ perpetrate a “frame-up” on young Jack. AVhen the election seems lost, Roger Jones, embryonic newspaperman, turns up with the evidence .exposing the crooks'and the opposition party. Jed Brouty. Shirley Deane, Spring Bvington, Russell Gleason, Kenneth Howell, 'George Ernest, June Carlson*. Florence Roberts and Billy Mahan are featured ill their familiar Jones Family roles, and Joan Alarsli and Marjorie Weaver are included in the sup- . porting cast. '