AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 230, 6 September 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

"INVISIBLE MENAGE’.’ " ' > A mystery-thriller movie called ‘‘The Invisible Menace,” with Boris Karloff- as.' 1 its star (though mining any 'lion or , effects of make-up), will be,...j screened Thursday and Friday, at the. ' Regent Theatre—and if you like masteries this will at the start and hold it until the fade-out. ' • j - 1 The story! opens on an island occupied by the United States Army as an arsenal. A young private played by Eddie Craven smuggles on to this place his bride of the afternoon— Marie Wilson, . whom he has married while on a short furlough. Seeking a 'place to bide her, he stumbles across the body fit, an ordnance officer, who iiad been tortured and killed. An investigation begins, and between this and the young bridegroom’s desperate efforts to hide bis bride, there’s-a whole lot of tension and .suspense, liberally, '' mixed , f w .with laughs. ' .1

“OVER/ THE WALL” A gripping yarn that packs all wallop •of other similar storie.s turned out by the Warner Bros'.’ studios" * ‘•Ovyr- the Wall,” will be screened^fc % the Regent Theatre on Thursday find Friday. ~ ' ~ The story has an unusual twist by the fact that Dick Foran, who' capab]v plays the lead, literally sings Tils, way out of prison, after he lias been incarcerated on a frame-up. '”»• t ßitter against, all except his sweetheart, the lovely June Travis, he sopn becomes an incorrigible. With the add of a tough but kindly prison chaplain, ably portrayed by the versatile* Tojm Litel, Foran the prison choir. Broadcast over the air, Foran soon gains a tremendous following. From then on the story gains in interest until a thrilling climax. Other parts are nicely filled by Dick Purcell, up-and-coming Warner player, Veda Ann Borg and George E, Stone. Dick'Foran sings two " great tunes in the picture. /