POWERFUL STORY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 620, 26 August 1933, Page 2

POWERFUL STORY

FOUR FAMILIES PROVIDE DRAMA IN NEW PICTURE. "THE NIGHT OF JUNE 13." The drama that sometimes goes on feack of the quiet facades of commonplace suburban homes provides the hasis for the action of "The Night of June 13," Paramount's new film which opens on Thursday at the Majestic Theatre. It deals with four families whose lives and fates have Tt)e,Come ..rather. intriaately. , tangled, and.it tells a story. that is as exciting 'in its n,earness to eyeryday existence as.ip.its melodrama. In. one. house -live John and. Elna Curry (Clive Brook and Adrdanne Allen). An automohile accident of recent date has deprived Elna of a promising career. as a pianist and has left her ill and neurotic. Particularly, she has becqme obsessed with the fact^ that John is in love with Trudie Morrow (Lila Lee), who lives next door. The Morrows are the most affluent of the four families, and Mrs. Morrow (Helen Ware) is doing her best to break up a love affair between her son Herbert; (Gene Raymond) and Ginger Blake (Frances Dee), who lives in an adjoining house with her spinster , sister , Helen Jerome Eddy). The fourth family, the Strawns, is composed of Mazie (Mary Boland), whose chief indoor sport is to keep her ears glued to the separating wall of tbe two-family house in which the Strawns and the Currys live; Junior ' (Billy Butts), who will do anything to get a greatly desired sweater; Grandpap (Charles Grapewin), who will do anything to get a drink, and Philo (Charlie Ruggles), who tries to pour oil on the trouhled waters. The undercurrents of trouble th'at are seething among the four families finally burst on th night of June 13. John fails to take the usual comnyulter's train back to the suburb because he has stayed in the city to say good-hye to Trudie, who is igoing! away until Elpa gets over her obsession. And in the hour between trains, something happens in each of the four houses. Elna commits suicide. Because he has touched the gun, John is arrested on a murder charge.

I As the trial goes on, his whole case | depends on whether he took the ear8 lier or the later train. But due to I events transpiring in the three other | houses, each' of the commuters has I reason not to tell the truth about § his movements on the night of June !: 13, and John is about to be convicted I; on a whole tissue of lies. Finally, ef j. course, the .truth of the situation r- .comes out.