King’s Theatre.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 355, 9 February 1937, Page 8

King’s Theatre.

“Eight Bells.” A dirty freighter bound for China on an important mission provides the locale for “Eight Bells,” the locale for “Eight Bolls,” the gripping Columbia nautical drama scheduled to be screened at the King’s Theatre to-day and to-morrow. Roy William Neill" directed from a screen play prepared by Bruce Manning and Ethol Hill from the play by Percy G. Mandley. Appearing together for the first time, Ann S'othern, Ralph Bellamy and John Buckley enact .the leading roles. The voice with a smile always wins’ An excellent and very vital example of the adage is lovely Ann Sothein, who is credited with having one of the most sonorous, one of the clearest and sweetest voices of any ; female screen star, Miss Sothern acl- ' mits that one isn’t born with splendid diction and smooth tonal qualities. To make a voice pleasing to ! the ear, after it has gone through the | complicated mechanisms of a micro- | phone and sound-recording system, is i not an easy job. On the same programme is “Police Car 17,” an action drama of the U.S.A. Police Force, in a thrilling picture from start to finish.