REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

‘•SPAWN OF THE NORTH/’ "Spawn of the North,” which comes to the Regent to-night at 8, offers something out of the ordinary. It is the stirring tale of a rugged life amidst the salmon fisheries of Alaska, and some of the scenes which show towering ice bluffs dwarfing the human figures which move near their base are awe-inspiring. “Spawn of the North” is not the usual picture associated with Alaska. The setting is the fishing grounds, and there is a dramatic story It deals with two boys, one of whom cannot rid his mind of the easy pickings from other folks’ salmon traps, and is drawn into a bad school led by a Russian renegade. Temperamental, without the ballast of his friend, he teams with the owner of the fishing village hotel, a girl with fine qualities of loyalty and a desire to live down a past. The other boy is drawn in on the side of law and order, and a climax is reached when one lad, with the trapped poachers, sinks two of the patrol boats with a harpoon gun, and the other, with the patrol, sees his face in a flash of light just as he has shot him. The wounded man does not die, but the other then enters upon his period of trial. Half the village scorns him, and he finally decides against the wish of his girl, who is the daughter of the local editor, to go out and seek the Russian leader who has taunted him with cowardice. The wounded man. has been taken by the Russian to dispose of as a dangerous witness, but he turns the tables by superhuman grit while still in a very dangerous state of health, remembering the old friendship and finally squaring off his account nobly. The main parts are taken by George Raft and Dorothy Lamour. The programme includes a Popeye cartoon, a Paramount Pictorial, Sportlight, and a newsreel.