GRAND THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 371, 4 November 1932, Page 3

GRAND THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. Combining the sweep and spectacle of th'e silent days with exciting *dialogue an dthrilling action, "Carnival Boat," Bill Boyd's latest starring picture, opened at the Grand Theatre last night. Boyd is seen as a young lumberman, son of the camp boss, Hobart Bosworth. The woods are his playgroqnd instead of his workshop, and his father is disappointed that the young man does not have the ambition to succeed h'im when his not-distant retirement is necessary. Bill's chief interest is Ginger Rogers, who has the role of a fiery-haired little daneer and singer aboard a showboat. Colourful carnival boat scenes 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 a lofty mountain high-line reaches the train, and by wrecking a portion of it, saves his father from death. This incident drives th'e 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 forgets his red-headed charmer. The climax of th'e picture is found in the dynamiting of the log-jam in "whieh Bill becomes a hero after saving a scoundrel who has been attempting to ruin them. This picture represents the first attempt any producer has made to take a microphone into the big trees.