CARNIVAL BOAT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 365, 29 October 1932, Page 7

CARNIVAL BOAT

BILL BOYD'S LATEST SUCCESSFUL PICTURE. CQLOURFUL SCENES. Combining the sweep and spectacle of the silent days with exciting dialogue and thrilling action, "Carnival Boat," Bill Boya's latest starring picture, opens at the Grand Theatre on Thursday. This picture puts the motion back into motion pictures. The dialogue is sufficient and good, but this romance of the hig trees shines most brilliantly in its action and the thrilling sequences which take place in a mountain logging camp. Boyd is seen as a young lumherman, son of the camp boss, Hobart Bosworth. The woods are his playground instead of his workshop, and his father is disappointed that the young man does not have the ambition to succeed him when his not-distant retirement is necessary. Bill's chief interest is Ginger Rogers, who has the role of a fiery-haired little dancer and singer aboard a showboat. Colourful Carnival Sctenes. Colourful carnival hoat seenes are varied by thrilling moments when Boyd and the lumbermen strain every sinew to get the logs rolling toward the mill. One of the dramatic highlights comes when Bosworth attempts to take a too-heavy loaded train of logs down the mountain and the brakes ; refuse to hold. Boyd, by riding across j a lofty mountain high-line reaches the j train, and by wrecking a portion of it, saves his father from death. I This incident urives the thought into • the young man's head that his father's [ sacrifice was to help him and he takes , the entire camp in hand. He even I forgets his red-headed charmer. The climax of the picture is found in the dynamiting of the l'og jam in which Bill oeeomes a hero after saving a scoundrel who has been attempti in to ruin them. This picture represents the first attempt any producer has made to take a microphone into the hig trees.