AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 171, 21 April 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“THQROUG/HBREDS DON’T CRY” Thrills of. a great'horse race inner machinations of race track crooks and intrigue of the betting’ ring, provide . a thunderous background for a - lieai;tgripping story of friendships’ and loyalties of youth? in . -‘Thoroughbreds Don’t Ory’V' which screens Saturday at the Regent Theatre/ • ..... The new picture brings, to fans new-lyt-discovered New. Zealand, boy actor Ronald Sinclair in his. first important role. A clever actor, distinctive in his appeal, he is teamed) with’singing Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, who plays a young jockey. The sympathetic boarding housekeeper is .superbly played by-Sophie Tucker. The story deals with • the British grandson of a racing sportsman who carries oft after his grandfather’s death to race “The Pookah”,- artd his friendship for a young jclclcey and the niece of a. boarding housekeeper.- The young jockey, •-triekotli into betraying his friend and A‘throwing’’ a race, * through his reiiTbrse* fiftdergoes a dramatic regeneration and ; exposes the crooks, though -it means his own ruin, while the Elnglish boy rides’ his horse to victory. “TRAPPED BY G-AIEN” . » ; V•:i .' - V; *«• "' The most- thrilling chapter in the screen exploits’ of America’s 1 intrepid GrMene will bo -unfolded - Saturday at the Regenet Theatre in Columbia’s . Trapped. By G-Mbn”. J '■'% Jack Holt, the sereenA - favourite ' he-man adventured, stars' as the ser- * ' vice’s ace agent, -with Wynne Gibson ! oposite him in the role of the first Gwoman to “get her man”ll The story tells of the efforts of Holt and his G-girl partner to smoke cut a gang of- killers from thejir impenetrable mountain liide-out. In order to learn the location of the convic.t cajnj> Holt po.ses as an escaped) bank gains the confidence of «4ne of the . gang, and'rising 1 loot as a lure, gaiiiis- admittance'to the killers’ stronghold. - ■’ From here on the film races breathJessly to the exciting climatic battle between the G-Men and the desperate Agangsters, malfing their last stand' against the -‘crushing onslaught of the •> feared “federals.” t NEW BUY-STAR DISCOVERY A--New Zealand* provides Hollywood’s latest chifeK soften find hi the person of 13 L Ronald Sinclair who makes his “Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry,” screening at the Regent Theatre on Saturday. [ brdwn-haired, ;, hazel-eyed outdoor youngsters comes of North of England stocks which settled in New Zealand mTSrfe. iHis grandfather was Richard Arthur Hould, : one of the early pioneers_in the Dominion, who became a Government in tiie Depar-tnie-ut. H|s father, Arthur was for forty years a representative l ' of the New Zealand Shipping Company in Auckland. Now retired, he took hi.s son. to Hollywood at the suggestion of Dame Sybil Thorndvke, London' stage celebrity. who saw great promise in Ronald after his appearance with her in Dunedin four years “Medea” of Euripides. i