AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 96, 12 October 1938, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“LOVE UNDER FIRE” News scoop! War-time Spain is still the reckless land of ardent love! Bombers roar and’ big guns thunder, but who’s afraid of romance? Not entrancing Loretta Young or tempestuous Don Ameche, who hurdle the Spanish barbed-wire barricades and trip headlong into romantic excitement and adventure in “Love Under Eire,” Twentieth Centurv-Eox comedy-dra-ma, which opens Thursday at the.' Do Luxe Theatre. Loretta. Young, gayer and lovelier than ever, and Don Ameche, smash-hit star of radio’s Sunday night brightspot, ration out kisses by the light of bursting star-shells, to the tune of winning shrapne? ,and the mad music of Borrah Minevitch and his gang( guns rat-rat-tat in swing time. Forced by trickery into the belief that she is a. hunted thief, Loretta Young seeks obscurity in Spain, only t( J« moot a. Scotland. Yard detective, played by Don Ameche, who is on a busman’s holiday and is seeking excitement. Don arrests his susceptible suspect, hut their trip back to England ami justice is interrupted by the appearance of the pretty owner of some fabulous jewels which arc being sought bv military officials. The fate of the gems has an immediate and telling effect upon, the fates of a multitude of innocent bystanders, and the adventurous suspense and l excitement works up to a high climax when a British vessel is stopped at sea. by a Spanish gunboat. “BEHIND THE HEADLINES” Bringing'Hie adventures of a roving news broadcaster’s hie to the screen for the first time, “Behind the Headlines” which screens at the De Luxe Theatre on Thursday and Friday features Lee Tracy in an exciting actionromance. Diana. Gibson has the feminine lead opposite the last-talking .1 racy, and Philip Huston, Donald Meek and other favourites are in the supporting east. As a radio reporter Trace scoops news Hashes from the scene of action over a. tiny short wave apparatus to the main broadcasting station. This is said to he one of the best performances of tin l actor’s career. Bichard Bosson directed the BKO Radio production-