ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 68, 2 January 1936, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ST. JAMES THEATRE. Who knows a man better—Ms wife or his secretary? The private secretary, according to charming Claudette Colbert, who plays that role in Columbia’s new comedy success, “She Married Her Ross,” showing to-night and to-morrow afternoon and night, at tho St. James Theatre. In the course of a regular business day she finds him in more moods and difficulties than any wife is liable to before their golden anniversary. Fighting side by side with him through his daily battles, she gets to know his weaknesses and his strong points, his likes and his dislikes, all of which tend to give her a clearer insight into the man’s nature. The secretary watches him as he deals with his fellow men, weighs liis tactics and principles, and so weighs his character. The excellent supporting cast includes such wellknown stage and screen names as Melvyn Douglas, Michael Bartlett, Jean Dixon, Raymond Walburn and Edith Fellows “She Married Her Boss” is a film in which Claudette Colbert rivals her fine performance in “It Happened One Night,” in which the star won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award for 1934 one of the most coveted trophies awarded yearly in America. MAJESTIC THEATRE. Paul Muni will weave a spell about audiences at the Majestic Theatre tonight and on Friday through tho shcei power of his personality and his almost uncanny sense of projecting himself into the character he is portraying. Muni has the title role in the W arnei Bros, production, “Dr. Socrates,” a picture replete with thrills and excitement, There are daylight raids by ruthless bank robbers and killeis, their battles with the police and their ultimate capture by government agents after a fierce fight in the bandit stronghold. Ann Dvorak, who plays opposite Muni, also lias a splendid role, that of an innocent hitch-hiking girl whom the bandit chief has mai Iced as his own. Again she gives a superb performance, as she did in hei first success, in which she died standing. riddled by bullets, by her crook lover, Muni, in “Sacrifice.” Others in the cast who do noteworthy work include John Eldrcdgc, Hobart Cavanaugh, Helen Lowell, Mayo Metliot and Raymond Brown. The story is by W. R. Burnett, author of “Little Caesar,” and adapted by Mary C. McCall, Jr. The screen play is by Robert Lord