GRAND THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 695, 22 November 1933, Page 3

GRAND THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. "Hot Saturday," Paramount's comedy drama featuring Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, is now at the Grand Theatre. It is the story of a girl who walked home from a Saturday night engagement, and woke up the next morning to find that, as far as saving her reputation was concerned, her cross-co.untry trek had been in vam. She finds the whole town massed against her for somebhing of which she is innocent, and eventually learns that the best and simplest person amongst the whole lot is the man the town has called had. Nancy Carroll has the role of the girl, and Cary Grant that of the socalled "bad man." Randolph Scott appears as an old sweeheart of the girl who is too ready to beiieve scanday against her, and others of prominence is the cast are Edward Woods, Lillian Bond, "Wfilliam Collier, sen., Jane Darwell, Rita La Roy and Rose Coughlan. The second feature is Zane Grey's "The Mysterious Rider," an exciting Western action-romance, with Kent Taylor, Lona Andre, Irving Pichel, Gail Patrick and Warren Hymer in the leading roles. Taylor is cast as a youmg rancher who sacrifices his own freedom and his own name to expose the machinations of a crooked lawyer, leader of an attempt to oust fellow-ranchers from their property. The attorney, played hy Pichel, has discovered that the land is not legally theirs, and then, after receiving the money they have gathered together to make it theirs, has douhle-crossed them and sold it for a higher figure to a powerful financier. He contrives to throw the guilt for the double-eross on Taylor. The latter, tossed into gaol, escapes and, ,at the risk of his own life. exposes the entire swindle, to hring the film to a breathless climax. The romance between Miss Aadre and Taylor runs throughout the picture.