AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 117, 2 December 1938, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“PENITENTIARY’* Stark terror grips the screen in soul-consuming jury in Columhia’s “Penitentiary,” showing Saturday and .Monday at’the Do Luxe Theatre! Blasting through an inferno of Mazing Millets to Imre the breaking hearts of a hoy branded as a killer—and of the warden's daughter who dared to love him ! Walter Connolly, John Howard, Jean Parker and Robert Bnrrnt tlirillingly enact a drama that will whip your emotions to level’ pitch ! Love in the Big Honise! Murder in the coll Mocks! Terror in the horror “hole” I Steady your nerves and steel your heart, for. the most Mistering Mast el (lynamite- that ever Mew the ,id. off grim, grey prison walls! Kreednim and happiness or imprisonment, and heartbreak ? Here’s suspense that exhausts the last, thrill your laut. nerves can hear. .. .as vengeance prowls the Big House and youthful lovers risk doom—rather than violate the merciless convict code! Supporting tliiniolly. Howard, Miss Parker and 'Banal., are Male Lawrence, Dick C'urtis, Ann Doran. Arthur Hold and others. John Bralim directed. “AS GOOD AS M ABBI I.D” The New Universal, which seems to have discovered the secret, of audience appeal, lias found' mini her happy combination, of story and cask and director in “As Good As Mlirried,” showing Saturday and Monday at the Do Luxe Theatre.

It is a delightful coinedy. n worthy successor t(» such hits ».s "My Man (did I rev,” "Three Smart Girls”, and "When Love Is Young.” It sparkles ire;. ll the first scene to the last.

The main situation is novel, intriguing and amusing. John Hales is a successful architect hnrrassed liy the demands of gold-digging jj;irls and inci'iue tax collectors, who threaten to strip Inin of all his earnings. So what docs he do hut propose marriage jo his secretary, played by Doris Nolan, who takes, him up on it hecause she hapnens to lie m love with him. The ensuing complications will send y a into inner handsprings ol mirth and amusement. And you cannot see iliis picturewithoiiti being struck liy, the lieauty of the sets. They fairly take your lireath away. According to the 1 eJlieial credits they were ‘Unsigned hv .loim ||ark,vider, the New Unicoi sal’s art. diroetoir, whose sets in that studio's super-musical "Tei|. t)f The Town" have already placed Inin at the 1 head of the. list of Hollywood set designers. • This sets Til'; "As < Good Aw JWn.rried’.Tiiro ‘the very last word in interior decoration. You can only sit and marvel at them.

Besides John Holes and Doris Nolan, the east is unusually large and unusHidly good, containin'!; STTcIi well known players as Walter Pidgeon, Tala Hirell. Alan .Mowbray, Krnost Cowsart, Ksther Ralston, Katherine Alexamler, and Dorothea. Kent. "As Good ns .Married” offers everything that n good comedy drama should offer. The east is supt-rh, the dialogue sparkling;, n'lid"‘tthif'direetiun l.irilliaii.t.. It is one of the sensor’s host picture^.