AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 338, 20 January 1937, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

Plaza Theatre. “When Ladies Meet.” Frank Morgan has the role of Woodruff, the romantic publisher, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “When Ladies Meet,” which is showing at the Plaza Theatre to-night only, with Ann Harding and Robert Montgomery as co-stars. Placed under contract by M-G-M following completion of his part in “Reunion in Vienna,” Morgan was assigned a featured role in the Lee Tracy picture, titled “The Nuisance,” and stepped from that into the important characterisation in “When Ladies Meet.” In the new film, Morgan is seen as Miss Harding’s husband, who constantly strays from the marital path but always returns. Myrna Loy is he young lady whose interest occupies his divided attention. King’s Theatre. “That’s Gratitude.” “That’s Gratitude,” famous Broadway stage comedy by Frank Craven, which has just been transcribed to the screen by Columbia Pictures, will head the new bill at the King’s Theatre to-night. Craven, who authored the comedy and enacted the leading role duripg the t.wo-jtear run on Broadway, not only performs this final role in the new screen version, but is also credited with its direction. “That's Gratitude” offers Mr. Craven to the picture public in his inimitable role of “Bob Grant,” who saves Tom Maxwell’s life and thereby becomes an almost permanent guest in the Maxwell’s small town home. In that situation he dispenses advice' all too freely, breaking up one family romance, creating another, and causing as much disturbance that the entire family is in a continual uproar. “Air Hawks.” Dealing with a death-ray which can cause destruction from almost any distance, “Air Hawks,” a Columbia picture featuring Ralph Bellamy, Wiley Post, Tala Birell, Douglass Dumbrille, and Billie Seward, comes to the King’s Theatre to-night. The story concerns two rival airlines, one headed by Ralph Bellamy, competing for lucrative air-mail contracts. Bellamy’s rival employs a mad scientist who has perfected an infamous machine which can project the electric beam into the skies to bring down, flaming, the ’planes cf Bellamy's company. The source of the subsequent disasters is unknown to Bellamy, but when the courage of the girl he loves and his own reckless daring merge to battle the hidden enemy, the executioner of the skies goes down before the onslaught in a novel climax.

Tala Birell is seen as the girl who helps Ralph Bellamy avenge the death of his flying buddies. Wiley Post, famous round-the-world flier, is seen in person in “Air Hawks” as himself. His .recent attempt at a new American trans-continental speed record is featured in the film, where special scenes were needed for a stratosphere flight. Post portrays one of the pilots in Bellamy’s air-line.