ENTERTAINMENTS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 264, 20 August 1936, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

ST. JAMES THEATRE. “THE BRIDE COMES HOME.” One of tho smartest comedy romances of the year comes to the St. James Theatre to-night and at two sessions to-morrow, in “The Bride Comes Home,” in which Claudette Colbert and Fred Mac Murray are starred. In a, day when it js difficult to get away from the patterned story, this tale of a modern boy and gill who can’t spend live minutes together without lighting, yet who find they can’t stay away from each other, is as refreshiing as a spring breeze in the hill country. Miss Colbert is the daughter of a Chicago financier who had gone distressingly .broke. Though reared in great luxury, the girl nevertheless has plenty of pluck, and decides to go to work. Robert Young, a childhood sweetheart, has just inherited three million dollars, but Claudette feels she would prefer getting a job to marrying him. She does go to work, as assistant editor of the magazine Young publishes, where she is made assistant to the editor, Fred Mac Murray. Mac Murry is a hardboiled, rough-spoken fellow who resents Miss Colbert’s presence. They fight from they moment they meet.

MAJESTIC THEATRE. Seldom 1 has there been such _ a powerful love-story enacted in strange surroundings than that of the convict, 83 (Conrad 1 Veidt) and Anna (Helen Vinson) in the GaumontBritish drama, “King of the Damned,” which will be . shown at the Majestic Theatre to-night and at two sessions to-morrow. Under 1 notice of release, Conrad Veidt has nevertheless planned a rebellion among his fellow-convicts on the terrible island of Santa Maria, in order to prove to authorities the frightful conditions under which the prisoners live. The coming of the Commandant s daughter, Anna, provides an immediate problem to the scheming liberator. On a visit to her dying father s bedside, she senses the undercurrent of mutiny in the settlement, and finds, too, a sudden attraction for Veidt, who, pending release, is employed as a trusted “orderly.” Matters are confused at the outset by the fact that beautiful Anna, engaged to the actingcommandant, begins to sep lum m his true light. She realises his biutal and utterly inhuman treatment or the men under his care, and decides to break with him. AN ENTERTAINING FILM. A talking picture which is described as highly entertaining will be shown at two sessions, in the afternoon and evening, at the Tancred Street Hall tomorrow. The film is a talking picture record! of a trip through the Ford Motor Works at Dagenham and Canada. It provides instructive and amusing entertainment. Among its features is a road test of all Ford models, which pro-* vides some thrilling scenes. Then there is a cartoon and a demonstration of the new 12-cylinder Lincoln Aepliyr. The programme is interesting and unusual, and should not be missed.