THURSDAY.

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 252, 15 June 1932, Page 3

THURSDAY.

BRITISH DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAMME.

Madeline Carroll, this country's favourite film star, is in the new Elstree production, "Fascination," in an entirely new role. After a long succession of heroines she will be for the first time — a vamp ! In an interview she stated : " I am very enthusiastic about the breakaway from the sickly sentimental heroines which have fallen to my lot since I first entered a film studio, but please do not imagine that I shall appear in the tradional slinky velvet gown or lure men to destruction with rolling eyes or any of the siren-like orgies of the old-time vamp!" In this picture Madeleine Carroli will portray a woman who is ill-used by the world and in consequence unhappy and inclined to retaliate, but she is not a bad, bad woman and will win the sympathy of film-goers. It will be remembered that Madeleine Carroll has appeared.in several British International Pietures including "The American Prisoner," ''Atlantic," and "The 'W' Plan." She was recently reported to have signed a £10,000 contract to appear exclusively in one company's films but was temporarily released from this to play the sympathetic vamp in "Fascin-. ation," directed by Miles Mander. '.'MEN LIKE THESE. The heroism of men facing death in a sunken submarine is the theme of this powerfully dramatic and terribly tense picture. One cannot but feel that it was inspired by a recent Naval disaster, as a tribute to the heroism of the men concerned in it; and a commendable effort to show us who only read of it just how great that bravery was, and what the horror of imprisonment under water really means. Whiehever way one views it, "Men Lilce These" is a worthy picture, made so by the extremely capable handling of its direct or, Walter Summers, to whom the greater part of the credit for its success must go. Summer's keen appreciation of the dramatic, and his technical skill in building up stispense, make us share with the men entombed in the sunken craft all the horrors of a failing air supply, creeping water which rises inexorably, and the grim sense of doom. We feel we are with them in their attempts to keep up their spirits in song and jest, in their solemn prayer, and in their courageous, expectant silences.