AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 173, 24 April 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“BACK IN CIRCULATION” “Back’ in Circulation,” a Warner Bros, picturisation. of the Cbsmopolitan magazine story, “Angel Shooter,” by'"Adela Rogers St. Johns, and starring Pat O’Brien and Joan Blondell, is an engrossing newspaper tlranfa, presenting a. behind-the-.scenes view of the ethics of news gathering and the power of the press over lives and reputations.

“Back in Circulation” is scheduled to. have its first local showing tonight- at the Regent- Theatre. A spectacular train wreck provides a thrilling introduction to the murder mystery elements of the Swiftly "paced narrative that follows. The photoplaypresents a new and exciting characterisation by Joan Blondell as a smart gjirl reporter who takes keen professional pride in her jo'll. The story revolves around the death, under mysterious circumstances', of a millionaire. This becomes kiitiwn, through an anonymous letter, to -Pat O’Brien, editor of a .metropolitan tabloid newspaper. Sensing sensational news, he assigns his star reporter to investigate. Amassing- a damaging amount of circumstantial evidence, the widow of the seemingly murdered man, portrayed by Margaret Lindsay, is brought to trial. Refusing to enter any defence to the charge, she is found guilty,-chiefly on the strength of the storie.s unearthed by the. news sleuths. Amidst the melodramatic involvements of the jnurdier trial, Joan Blondell, although her activities have been the moving influence in the persecution, becomes convinced of the condemned woman’s innocence. Facing the woman she has practically sent to her doom, she contrives to make her confess that her silence is shielding someone. In the clash b-e----tweeri the two women, the underlying play for life and death i.s one of the dramatic highlights of the picture, and provides the solution to the mystery. ■“MR. MOTO TAKES A CHANCE” 5 ‘ Facing a weird wilderness of mystjc; temples and naineless terrors, famous Saturday Evening Post master of mystery meets his most sensational Adventure as Peter Lorre brings to f}he screen the character created by J, P, Marquand, “Mir. Moto Takes A Chance,” thrilling 20th. Century-Fox mystery-adventure story opening tonight at the Regent Theatre with Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent and J. Edward Bromberg featured in tbe supporting cast, is the latest in the series.

-The amazing Mr. Moto, mild-man-flered, nimble-witted detective, fights poisoned blow-gun darts with .livpnotism, jiu-jllsu, swords, burning' oil, sorcery, machine guns and magic in a drama motivated by mystery, teeming with thrills andt alive with adventure. J