AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 189, 31 May 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

"I’LL GIVE A MILLION” Orchids, yachts, -'“mansions, —after all, what do they mean —if it’s only orchids, yacht! and mansions the girls are after! So a debonair millionaire give.s his million the air and goes looking for a girl who/ is looking only for love l In this vein, “I’ll Give A .Million:’ jvhich screens Thursday and Friday at tlie Regent Theatre, becomes one of the gayest, m,ost hilarious cinematic romances to come out of Hollywood in an age. Romantic Warner Baxter; gorgeously glamorous Alarjorie Weaver—at last in glittering raiment■•■"Peter Lorre, the erstwhile menace Air. Mo to, in a riotously funny characterisation; beloved Jean Helsholt in a part as as his famous Country Doctor; that master of facial facility, John Carradine, and exciting Lynn Bari. That’s just a. quick glimpse of the cast which adds up to hundreds—and introduces Shorty, a clever scene-steal-ing simian. Only the keen mind of smart writers could logically tie up the glamour of high society, and the idea of a whole town in Southern France suddenly inaugurating kindness to tramps—just because ■ Warner % Baxter, seeking refuge from fairweather pals, says he’ll give 'll million francs for a- regl ~||jend. “DANGER PATROL” *SW:Packed with danger and excitement,, RKQ Radio’s new thrill romance, - “Danger Patrol” which screens at the Regent Theatre on Thursday and Friday, brings Sally 'Filers and John Beal together witn Harry Carey in an unusual type of screen offering. The lives of the men who make and transport the world’s most treacherous explosive, nitroglycerine, form iho background of tlie story, whose, plot turns. ,on they romance between ?. •■.t|io l ,. i ti Miss. Filers . ; ; plojs tlie. daughter.; of-’j Carey', an, old.-. timer the . perilous:., business of ' f.and'» ;Beal,f mpiiew-cpmer wiiq ■ ( is -ytaken; in. | to jeam the'- tricks oi the.profession. :

Beal, in love with Aliss Filers, soon finds himself with a .rival in the person of a young business man in vhe little ijL'Xas town. While the girl prefers Beal, she has learned from long experience the uncertainty of a “nitre handler’s” life. As she tells * inm, she doesn’t mind being his wife but she doesn’t want to be his widow, and she urges him to quit before it is too J.ate. But the boy is determined to stay in the/ business until lie makes enough money to complete his medical career, and on this rock their romance runs aground. The ensuing developments, and Carey’s desperate effort to secure his daughter's happiness, make for the gripping* conclusion of the story.