King’s Theatre.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 443, 26 May 1937, Page 8

King’s Theatre.

“Murder With Pictures” The triumph of the camera over the eyes of 'forty witnesses to- a. “perfect crime,” is dramatically depicted in Paramount’s new mystery, “Murder With Pictures,” starring Dew Ayres and Gail Patrick, which screens at the King’s Theatre to-night. “Murder With Pictures” is the story of a murder perpetrated in a crowded room during the height of a celebration. A newspaperman, Benny Baker, took a picture of a number of photographers who were making a photographs of the host, Ernest Cossart, and even though he didn’t know it, the entire crime was indelibly recorded on celluloid by the all-seeing eye of his camera. The picture is of additional interest because it features the newly-perfected Wirephoto System, which “telegraphs” pictures over great distances, in actual operation. “Sunset Pass” Two of Hollywood's best-known Western stars "joined up” with Paramount to play in Zane Grey’s "Sunset Pass,” which is also on the same programme. They are Tom Keene, who is cast in the leading role, and Harry Carey, one of the menaces of the cast. Keene plays the role of the Cattlemen’s Association deputy, engaged to run down a gang of rustlers, who finds that the brother of the girl he loves is the man he must apprehend. Both Keene and Carey have won outstanding success in Westerns. Keene has been a star In them for the past five years. Carey has been in pictures since 1910, when he played his first role for Biograph. “Sunset Pass” follows closely the original story by Zane Grey. It is replete with thrilling incidents—a raging prairie fire, a mad stampede of an enormous herd of cattle, and plenty of hard riding and breathless gun fighting. “The Crime Of Dr. Forbes” Cold-blooded murder for the sake of a guilty love—or an act of compassion beyond human law? Bocal theatre-goers will have an opportunity to sit in judgment on “The Crime of Dr. Forbes” when the new Fox pictures screens at the King's on Thursday and Friday. Gloria Stuart, Robert Kent, Henry Armetta. J. Edward Bromberg, Sara Haden and Alan Dinehart. are featured in this widely heralded production, the story of which is based on a theme new to the screen. Kent, a young physician, goes to trial for the alleged murder of Bromberg, a noted scientist engaged in research which he hopes will lead to a cure for a fatal spinal disease. The events leading to Kent’s trial begin when Bromberg, hearing of the excavation of some prehistoric skeletons in Arizona bearing unmistakable symptoms of the disease, decides to visit the scene and leaves his laboratory and beautiful young wife, Gloria Stuart, in Kent’s care. The young doctor and Gloria, without knowing it, fall in love. Suddenly word comes that Bromberg has been badly injured in an accident and Kent and Gloria rush to the scene. There they find Bromberg hopelessly enduring angony, for he knows that his injury cannot be cured. Kent and Bromberg's other associate realise their helplessness. They know that they can do nothing to lessen the injured man’s terrible pain—and they know he cannot recover. Suddenly Bromberg dies—and unmistakable evidence points to an overdose of narcotics. Circumstantial evidence points to Kent as the administrator of the drug—and amidst condemning publicity he is brought to trail, where the prosecution points out that the young doctor is in love with Bromberg’s wife. Did this Dr. Forbes violate his sacred oath? The answer, startling and surprising, supplies one of the most unusual climaxes ever filmed. “Music Is Magic” Bebe Daniels, who is featured in a leading role in the Fox musical romance, “Music Is Magic” (also on the same programme), returns to the screen, after a two-years’ absence. Alice Faye tops the cast in the picture in which Miss Daniels enacts the role of a motion picture star whose popularity is on the wane. In “Music Is Magic” she reveals the charm which made her one of the favourites of the silent screen. During the course of her great career, i she has played almost every conceivable type of role.