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N E X T WEEK AT ROANOKE RAPIDS THEATRES I GB's 'Everything Is Thunder' Is Terrific with Suspense and A Thunderbolt to Emotions Excellent Direction and a Superb Oast Make This Exciting Drama as Thrilling as Novel __ Special orchids are due GB for the way in which they have cap tured all the fire and thunder of love and danger of the original novel in their picturization of “Ev erything Is Thunder," which will be shown next Monday and Tues day at the Peoples. Constance Bennett, Douglass Montgomery and Oscar Homolka share stellar honors and it is on their shoulders the burden of the drama falls. It’s a new type of role for Miss Bennett, but one in which she acquits herself so splen didly it is a pity she ever permitted herself to become a clothes horse. When it comes to putting her teeth into a dramatic part she has plenty of bite. Here Connie is a waif of the streets. In Berlin she offers shel ter from the storm in her flat to a handsome young man whom she thinks is a German fleeing from some innocent disgrace. When she learns he is an English officer who has killed a sentry in escaping from a war prison camp she is torn between a natural revulsion toward an enemy and a killer and the tender, passionate love that has sprung up in her pagan heart for this man whose love is the sweetest thing she has ever Known. In the end love sweeps away her doubts and fears and she casts her lot with him. She becomes his ac complice by lying to the police and from then on to the final fade out, when Hugh walks into the dawn of a new day—and a new hope—with her in his arms, she schemes and lies and sacrifices to get him safely across the border. Marion Dix and John Orton fashioned the scenario with a fi delity that betrays their love for the original story, a best-seller novel by J. L. Hardy, who is a fa mous "escapist,” having made five attempts at flight from war camps. The picture differs only from the novel in its ending. Anna does not die from the wound she got on Hugh’s behalf, and they escape to gether. Douglass Montgomery never for a moment lets you forget that Hugh is a hunted man. Nor do you doubt the depth of his love for Anna. Oscar Homolka, whose Oom Paul Kruger in “Rhodes” was a classic, is equally effective as the detective who is always most menacing when he doesn’t know how near he is to the man he (Utill/O While thrilling to the last de gree with the suspense, as said be fore, well-night unbearable, “Ev erything Is Thunder” is really an exquisitely beautiful love story. Ro meo and Juliet loved no more deathlessly than Hugh McGrath and his Anna. A fast-moving story of adven ture, intrigue and romance in mod ern war-torn China, "The General Died at Dawn,” which comes to the Peoples next Wednesday Thursday, brings to the screen a thrilling drama which well might have been taken directly from the newspaper headlines. “The General Died at Dawn” presents Gary Cooper again in a soldier-of-fortune role, one which haa added greatly to his stature as one of filmdom’s outstanding stars. Playing opposite him—as a woman who uses her beauty as a lure in the high game of international in trigue—is beautiful blonde ; Made leine Carroll. I The film is based on the struggle between modern China ^nd the predatory war-lords who are lay ing the country waste, j On the one side is General Yanfe, ambi tious war-lord intent upon crush ing China under his iron heel. On the other is a growing people’s movement. Cooper is in the ranks of this movement. Sent to Shanghai with money with which to buy arms, Cooper is lured aboard a train by Miss Car roll, daughter of a crooked inter national agent. The train is held up and Cooper is captured. The a gent is given the money and sent to Shanghai to pick up Cooper’s arms consignment. Once there he decides to flee to America with the money. Cooper escapes from Yang and reaches Shanghai where he kills the agent in a shooting scrape. Yang arrives and takes him prisoner again, together with Miss Carroll. He takes them a board his junk where he intends to torture them into revealing the hiding place of the money which neither of them know. Miss Carroll discovers she loves Cooper and to atone for her du plicity in leading to his capture, offers to pay Yang with her life if he will permit Cooper to go. Be fore this becomes necessary, how ever, Yang is shot in a scuffle. Realizing he is about to die, he or ders his soldiers to kill Cooper and the girl and then to kill them selves so that he can enter heaven with an entourage befitting his rank. Just as the soldiers are about to fire, Cooper begins a des perate gamble for life by playing to Yang’s vanity. The part of General Yang is played by Akim Tamiroff, skilled depicter of sinister oriental roles. ******* Eddie Quillan, Charles “Chic” Sale, Charlotte Henry, Marjorie Gateson and John Miljan combine to make “The Gentleman From UNUSUAL FACTS REVEALED -by “Movie SfiotligHt” i EDITH FELLOWS, i nt ‘TUGBOAT PRINCESS; 15 A DIRECT DESCENDANT Of CHARLES AND MAQY LAMB, AND POSSESSES THE CDADLE IN WHICH THE FAMOUS AUTHOR SLEPT. t/ALERIE HOBSON IS AN OUTDOOR [ GIRL. SHE SWIMS, | RIDES, PLAYS. TENNIS, POLO AND GOLF. WALTER C. KELLY, the VIRGINIA JUDGE. IS THE AUTHOR ' OF A BOON OF 5,000 JOKES AND *3 ENTERTAINED THE CAST A.T COLUMBIA WITH Ht5 WITTICISMS. ^ Columbia FeatuN Scrvit* Louisiana,” an outstanding film for a “bargain day” attraction next Friday at the Peoples. It is a story of New Orleans, old New York and Epsom Downs, England, and fea tures some great horse racing scenes. ******* “Three on the Trail,” latest of the “Hopalong Cassidy” Westerns to reach the screen, comes to the Peoples next week for the Satur day bill, and was adapted from Clarence E. Mulford’s best-selling novel, “The Bar 20 Three.” It boasts an excellent cast, including William Boyd, Jimmy Ellison, Ons low Stevens, Muriel Evans, George Hayes, Claude King, and is a Para mount release. TOWN talk 10th Birthday Party Dorothy Tyson celebrated her tenth birthday with a party Satur day afternoon at her home, 1027 Vance St. After opening the birth day gifts games were enjoyed. The hostess served cakes, candy and fruit. Those enjoying the party were Mildred, Margaret and Ruby Blow, Clayton and Romp Jenkins, Rosa, Frank, Bobbie, and Marvin Johnson, Margaret and “Peachie” Harris, Clifton and Clinton Hasty, Louise Burke, Carl Cale, Ancell Lynch, Carl and Clyde Garris and Lucille Tyson. Outland—Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Bush Hux an nounce the marriage of their niece, Mary Alice Taylor, to William Mal colm Outland, son of Mrs. Rosa Outland of this city. The mar riage took place in Emporia, Va., Saturday, Oct. 31, 1936. The bride is a graduate of 1936 class of Roanoke Rapids High School. Mr. Outland is employed by Rosemary Mfg. Co. They will make their home at 317 Madison St., Roanoke Rapids. Those attending the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Hudson and Otha Hudson. Henry Shaw and Miss Mildred Liverman spent Sunday in Wilson. Miss Verlie Woodruff left Mon day for Sanatorium. -r" Miss Lucy Mayfield spent Sun day in Norlina. Misses Bettie. and Virginia Gates spent the week-end in Farmville, Va. Next Week at Roanoke Rapids THEATRES PROGRAMS for WEEK of NOVEMBER 9th PEOPLES Monday-Tuesday Constance Bennett-Douglas Montgomery Everything Is Thunder Wednesday-Thursday Gary Cooper-Madeleine Carroll The General Died At Dawn Friday Eddie Quillan-Charlotte Henry The Gentleman From Louisiana Saturday William Boyd-Jimmy Ellison A Three on the Trail kimperial^ Monday-Tueoday Edmund Lowe-Constanee Cummings SEVEN SINNERS Wednesday Russell Hardie-Ann Rutherford DOWN TO THE SEA ThursJay-Friday Jack Haley-Betty Furness MR. CINDERELLA Saturday Jack Holt-Louise Henry End of the
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