AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 356, 10 February 1937, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

Plaza Theatre. “Forgotten Faces.” “Forgotten Faces,” a Paramount picture, a story of tragedy which follows a marriage that crashes on the pocks, shows at the Plaza to-night. Herbert Marshall stars in the film ,and the excellent supporting cast features Gertrude Michael, James Burke, Jane. Rhodes, and Robert Cummings. The story deals with a dapper gambling house operator whose favourite flower is the heliotrope, because he believes that its influence is lucky for him. He returns home one night to find his wife Miss Michael, making love to another man, and in a fit of passion kills her lover. He turns his baby daughter over to his police-ser-geant pal, James Burke, to see that she is properly cared for, and gives himself up to the police. He is sentenced to prison. Years latcv, when his daughter has grown to womanhood and is about to be married, he fearns that his wife has threatened to blackmail the girl. Through years of good behaviour in prison, he succeeds in getting a parole, and manages to change places with the butler in his daughter’s household, so he can be near her and protect her from her desperate mother, When husband and wife meet again, one comes to threaten a young girl’s happiness, the other to safeguard it, the result is an explosion that makes for one of the most dramatic climaxes seen in pictures in many months. 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 Bells,” the gripping Columbia nautical drama scheduled to bo screened at the King’s Theatre finally to-night. 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 Sothern, Ralph Bellamy and John Buckley enact the leading

roles. The voice with a smile always wins! An excellent anti very vital example of the adage is lovely Ann Sothern, who is credited with having one of the most sonorous, one of the clearest and sweetest voices of any female screen star, Miss Sothern admits 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 microphone and sound-recording system, is 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.