ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 28 July 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “GUNS OF.THE PECOS.” The golden singing voice of Dick Foran, which helped finance his education at Princeton, will be heard in two original and catchy songs in the Western star’s latest First National picture, “Guns of the Feeos,” screening to-night, at the Kosy Theatre. Foran, a concert artist before ho signed a Hollywood acting contract, will accompany himself on the guitar and sing “The Prairie Is My Home,” a cowboy ballad written in a scmi-oporatic vein, and “When a Cowboy Takes a Wile.” a novelty ntunbc-i. The songs aro by M. K. Jerome, First .National contract composer, whose greatest hit was “Just a Baby’s Prayer at Twilight,” and Jack Scholl, who has written the words for all the numbers in the Foran Westerns. “Guns of the Pecos” is a thrilling romance of the West. Besides Foran the cant includes Anno Nagel, Gordon Hart, Joseph Crehan, Eddie Acutf, Robert Middlomass, Gaby- Fay and Gordon Ellioft. Major Burton (Gordon Hart) is comimssioned by General Grant to procure 5000 head of horses for the army. The Major finally gathers tho horses, only to bo killed by a band of cattle rustlers and outlaws led by- Judge Blake (Robert Middlcmass). Steven Ainslce (Dick Foran) and his partner, JcfF Carter (Eddie Acutf),. are Texas Rangers detailed to break up the ring and bring tlie killers to justice. Steve Johns the band and learns they killed Burton while stealing the army hot res. When Luke Brady (Monte Montague) receives payment for the horses from Bake, Steve beats Lttko and grabs the cheque. Associate faturc, Chester Morris, Loo Carillo, land Helen Mack in Columbia’s thrilling romance, “1 Promise to Pay.”

MAYFAIR THEATRE. “RENDEZVOUS.” “Rendezvous,” screening at the Mayfair Theatre to-night, is tho startling, dramatic story of the U.S. Cryptographic Bureau as told by the man .who organised and headed it throughout tho World War. Based upon Major Herbert O. Yardley’.s sensational best-seller book, “the American Black Chamber,” it is crammed with the intimate revelations of the secret counter-espionage department, where foreign diplomatic or enemy communications wore secretly “tapped,” decoded and deciphered for official information. Through this amazing talo of codes and ciphers, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have woven a romance with William Powell, as tho chief cryptographer, and Rosalind Russell. Powell, aided by his appearance in former famous mystery screen plays—such as “’lhe* Thin Man,” “Evelyn Prentice" and “Mat; liattan Melodrama” —contributes ono of his finest screen performances. Powell, ns a puzzle editor on a metropolitan newspaper, has enlisted in the army to fight in I ranee when he is pulled otf the transport and thrust into the “Black Chamber”. work at Washington. Through his genius in dissecting secret codes he. quickly becomes head of the famous counter-espionage work for tlie United States. Rosalind Russell, in her role as Joel Carter, the daughter of the Assistant Secretary of \\ ar, has achieved the Hollywood miracle of appearing in nine pictures during her nine months as a screen actress and of rising from a comparatively unknown “hit” player to leading woman in less than a year. Binntc Bailies, the cheerful comodirnuc from London, appears as Olivia, the alluring spy who almost upsets all of Powell’s secret work. Lionel Atwill, after a long siege as a -screen heavy,” steps out of his usual screen villainy to play the role of Brennan British at!ache to the Black Chamber. Others m the eaist include Samuel Hinds as Secretary Carter; Cesar Romero, who made such a decided hit in “Richelieu,” as the Russian attache, Nickolojcff; Sterling Holloway as the amusing taxi driver; Charles Grapewin as head of the chemical department; Henry Stephenson, as an Ambassador; and Charles Trowbridge, as Secretary of War Baker, Tlie Springbok v Auckland football match at Auckland will screen at all sessions.