AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 69, 12 August 1938, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“EXCLUSIVE’* A brilliant cast, in excellent, story and superb direction, well spiced with action, comedy and tense drama, combine to make of “Exclusive,” the motion picture which opens Saturday at the De Luxe Theatre one of the season’s real hit films. Using a battle- between two rival newspapers as its background, the story concerns the .sacrifice a father, is forced to make when he must choose, between strict adherence to the newspaper code or betrayal of his own daughter. The cast is headed by FiV?d MaeMurrav, Frances Farmer and Charlie Ruggles, and includes Lloyd Nolan, Fay Holden, Ralph Morgan and a score of other noted players.

In the story Ruggles is cast as the father and Miss Farmer is the daughter. Mae Murray, Ruggles’ best friend, is in love with Miss Farmer, Nolan corrupt politician, opens a rival newspaper which he intends to use as a blackmail sheet and he offers ltuggles and Mae Murray more money to come to work for him but they refuse. Miss Farmer, however, accepts a position on the corrupt newspaper.

The powerful climax is reached when the ideals of father and daughter clash. Miss Farmer’s muck-raking activities causes one of the town’s leading citizens to take his life and it is ltuggles’ task to write the story of his daughter’s methods for liis own paper. “WHEN’S YOUR BIRTHDAY ” Side-splitting comedy situations, thrilling adventures and a swift succession of hilarious incidents feature “When’s Your Birthday?” Joe, E, Brown's new laughing success, which screens Saturday and Monday at the Do Luxe Theatre. First seen as a young man following a highly unsuccessful pugilistic career in. order to pay for a course in' astrology. and collecting black eyes with monotonous regularity, Brown finally secures a job as a soothsayer in a Midway etnieession, and thenceforth Rads such a hectic existence that his disastrous ling career seems mild by comparison. The climax is one long rear of laughter. This David L. Knew production for RKO Radio was directed bv Harry Beaumont, and Brown’s supporting cast includes Marian Marsh. Fred heating. Minor Watson and Edgar Kennedy.