AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 106, 7 November 1938, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“BULf-DOC DRUMMOND’S REVENGE in a thrilling story of murder in the skies, international plotters ami mill-, tury secrets, John oncJli again plays the the clever young amateur detective in Paramount’s '‘Bulldog Drummond's -Revenge", which opens Tuesday at the De juuxc Theatre. When Howard finds the body of . Tingland’s most famous scientist, a man -, who has just invented an explosive that can destroy the capital's ot iturope, it docs not take him long to surmise.,Mini t- the murderer is-the scientist’s secretary, actuajly a spy in the employ of a hostile government. Although lie has promised his fiancee, Louise Campbell, that he will quiet such adventures once they are married, he finds himself well mixed up in tho affair when the murderer appears, dressed .-as*'a woman, during a nerve-wracking j.train-ferry trip from London to Paris. The murderer not only kills his own accomplice in the next compartment but threatens the lives of all with liift case of deadly “Haxonite,” the, super-explosive. AVith file help-, ot John .-Barrymore, once again. the man - ffSbm Scotland Y ard, Howard traps tho murderer before it is toQv. late, and saves his country’s greatest military, secret. In the supporting cast of this picture, directed

by Lo-uis King, are Reginald Denny and E. E. Clive. r 'THRILL OF A LIFETIME” Song, romance and humour are the three important ingredients of “Thrill of a Lifetime”, the new Paramount ni,usical which opens on Tuesday at tli,e "’De Luxe. Theatre * anil features the Yacht Club Boys, Johnny Downs, Eleanorc 'Whitney, Dorothy Lamour, Betty Grable, Leif Erikson, Ben Blue, Judy . Canova, Larry Crabbo and Franklin Pangborn. “Thrill of a Lifetime” one of tho gayest productions of tlie current season, was produced by Franclion and directed by. George Arcliainbaud. The music was written bv Sam Coslow, Frederick Hollander and Oarmen Lombardo.