ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 124, 7 March 1936, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ST. JAMES THEATRE. Because they attend speeches derogatory t-o ’‘ideals,” radicals are dispersed after a pitched battle in the Reliance Picture "Red Salute” which \vill he shown at the St. James Theatre to-night and on Monday. This is only one of the highly-amusing scenes in the romantic comedy in which Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Young are starred. Miss Stanwyck plays her first comedy role. As Drue Van Allen, a madcap college girl; she meets a series of thrilling and amusing adventures when she is stranded across the Mexican border with a young buck private, played by Robert Young. The laugh-loaded story is an original by Humphrey Pearson, and the screen play was prepared by the author in collaboration with Manuel Self. Hardie Albright, Ruth Donnelly, Cliff Edwards, Gordon Jones, Paul Stanton, and Purnell Pratt are also prominent in the cast, which Sidney Lanfield directed for release through United Artists;

MAJESTIC THEATRE. History’s greatest struggle, in which all the nations of Europe banded together for an inspired and unselfish cause, is the subject of Cecil B. de Mille’s latest spectacular drama for Paramount, "The Crusades,” which will be shown to-night and on Monday at the Majestic Theatre. "The Crusades,” in which great and low, young and old, gladly gave their lives for an ideal, brought chivalry to its height and shaped, by supreme efforts and sacrifice, the beginnings of the modern world. The spectacle proportions and amount of research and preparation required for this production imposed months of study on De Mill© and his large staff of assistants before a single camera turned 1 . All properties had to be carefully checked for accuracy. More than 10,000 persons are in cast, headed by Henry Wilcoxon as Richard the Lion-Heart, and Loretta Young as Berengaria.