AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 306, 10 December 1936, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

Plaza Theatre. Jack Oakie plays an impertinent reporter who frustrates a gang of crooks in their attempt to steal a i’orzmtune in diamonds from an eccentric millionaire while en route to the South, in “Florida Special,” Paramount’s latest thriller, which shows at the Plaza Theatre, Stratford, .today and to-morrow. Fast-moving action, excitement, and plenty of comedy fill the picture. Oakie is accompanying Kent Taylor, a wealthy play-boy whose every move is news, on a. trip to Miami where lie hopes to forget about his thwarted romance. They' meet Claude Gillingwater, .the millionaire, whose secretary is murdered and jewels stolen. Rival gangs get things mixed up, however, and Oakie helps to recover the stolen gems for Gillingwater and patch up Taylor’s heart by introducing him .to Sally Eilers, hostess on the train.

King’s Theatre. The death of a young woman from an overdose of morphia led the police to examine the poisonbook of David Stanley Norton and Henry Pryor, two doctors in partnership in Harley Street. Norton knew that Pry'or, hard-pressed for money, had been supplying morphia to patients illegally, and he says the partnership must, end. In revenge, Pryor accuses Norton of misconduct with his wife, Helen. There has been nothing between them, but events force them to confess their secret love for each other. There is an examination before the General Medical Council. Norton is struck off .the register as a result of the charming and convincing way in which Vera Kennedy, the doctor’s secretary, lies for Pryor’s sake, to whom she is more than a secretary'. Norton goes to America with Helen and achieves fame as a. heart specialist, under the name of Stanley, but Pryor, true to his word does every dirty job 'which will bring him nearer to Norton, reaches him at last, and for the second time ruin at the hands of this man is imminent for Norton. What other choice has he? And how will Gale reconcile his double capacity of Norton’s friend and District Attorney? This is the dramatic appeal, of the 8.1. P. production, ‘‘Living Dangerously',” which shows at the King’s Theatre, to-day and tomorrow. Otto Kruger and Leonora Corbett play the leading roles.