AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 207, 14 July 1939, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“THREE COMRADES”. From the* pen of the author of “AH Quii't oil the Western Front/’ comes another gripping screen narrative in which a nation’s woes after the World War are overshadowed by one ot the most human love stories to reach iio screen. In the. new picture, “Three Comrades,” which screens Saturday and Monday at the Regent Theatre, Robert Taylor and .Margaret Sullavan provide a poignant romance, .with Fran-' ch.ot Tone and Robert Young, also in stellar roles, adding performances which will lejnain long in the memory of the moviegoer. The story, based on Erich Maria

Remarque’s widely-read novel, centres about Taylor, Tone and Young, throe young war veterans who face a chaotic future together in a country gripped by post-war disturbances. Taylor, the youngest, falls in love with Miss .Sullavan, the love affair giving all three comrades a new interest in life. Out o.f the inferno of war came three men and a woman... .war-torn youth in a world gone' mad... .to live their lives... .and their loves! 'three comrades and a pretty'little fallen aristocrat... .who drift from recklessness into love. ...and from love into magnified ent- sacrifice.. .one oi : the most ein optioning heart dramas of all time! Powerfully produced by M-G-M with a great cast ef- your popular stars! “ROSS OF LONFRY VALLEY” Gripping scenes of peril and adventure, set among a vast expanse of range land and mountains in the West, alternate with an intriguing romance in Ruck Jones’ new Eniversal release, “Ross of Lonely Valley,” which screens Saturday and Monday at the Regent Theatre. With Ruck Jones and the lovely M.Uriel Evans in the principal roles, and supported by a sparkling cast, this epic of the West tells the story of a. band of forgers in the town of Ardmore, who, by means of forged deeds, notes and .other documents are obtaining control of a vast section of the country. Steve Hanson, courageous young rancher, suspects that Jake Wagner, saloon keeper, is at the bottom of the forgeries and he accordingly arranges to have a government investigator sent to Ardmore. They discover a secret tunnel under a. church which leads into Wagner’s saloon and pin the guilt on the culprits in the well known Jones’' manner with a battle at Wagner’s saloon, in which tlie gang is cleaned up.