AMUSEMENT GUIDE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 129, 2 June 1934, Page 18

AMUSEMENT GUIDE.

HIS MAJESTY'S—CIem Dawe Revue Co. TOWN HALL — PoulshnotT and Horace Stevens. CONCERT CHAMBER —"A Gaiety Girl." PICTURE THEATRES. MAJESTIC—Anne Grey and John Stuart In "House or Trent." ClVlC—George While and Rudy Vallco in '•Scandals." PLAZA—-Jack IlulberC and Nancy O'Neill In "Jack Ahoy." LONDON —Richard Tatiber in "The End or the Rainbow." ROXY AND TIVOLI —"Wheeler and Woolsey in "Hips, Hips, Hooray." NATIONAL —Anna Sten In "Nana." PRINCE EDWARD—"HoId the Press" and "Beau Hunks." REGENT —Tom Katz and his Band and "iMeet My Sister." STRAND —Jack Oakie and Jack Haley In "Sitting- Pretty." ST. JAMES' —Ramon Novarro and Jeanettc Mac Donald in "The Cat and the Fiddle." ADELPHI—"GoId Dig-g-ers or 1933." ALEXANDRA —"Voltaire." AMBASSADOR (Point Chevalier) — "Dangerously Yours." AVONDALE —"The Blarney Stone." BIRKENHEAD —"Headline Shooters." BRITANNIA —"Beauty For Sale." CAPITOL —"White Woman." CRYSTAL PALACE—"Son or a Sailor." DELTA (New Lynn)—"The Invisible Man." DE LUXE—"GoId Diggers or 1933." EDENDALE —"Cuckoo In the Nest." EMPRESS —"Voltaire." EMPIRE—"This Week or Grace." GAIETY (Takapuna)—"After the Ball." GLEN EDElM—"DdiiffP." GREY LYNN CINEMA —"Peg- 0' My Heart." KING'S (Northcote) —"Dinner at Eight." KINGSLAND—"Lady for a Day." PICTUREDROME —"The Rome Express." REGENT (Epsom)—" When Ladies Meet." RIALTO —"Voltaire." SOUTHERN CROSS —"l-'ra Diavolo." STATE (Onehunga)—"Son or a Sailor." STATE (Symonds Street) —"Counsellor at Law." STRAND (Onehunga)—"Cinderella's Fella." TUDOR —"Peg o'. My Heart." VICTORIA —"Should Ladies Behave?" WEST END—"Cuckoo in the , '

"JACK AHOY!" AT PLAZA. Under vice-regal patronage, the picture "Jack Ahoy!" opened its season to a crowded audience at the Plaza Theatre last evening. The film was Jack Hulbcit at his best. It stands for a buoyant personality, brimful of humour, which transfers itself to the picture and carries the audience along in the same .strain. Once a picture makes the audience laugh it is easy to keep it laughing; and somehow it seems impossible to look at Jack Hulbert and not laugh. That is not even taking into account the hopelessly ludicrous scenes which invariably follow each 01 the impossible '.'scrapes" into which the actor contrives to get himself. In this picture it docs not matter that the plot is impossible; it does not matter that its denouement could not happen All through it the breezy, smiling Jack lay bobs up right when the thing is most impossible, and when he smiles the impracticability does not seem to matter much, lhe scenes in the submarine are the best. .Never a submarine performed such antics; never had one such a crow. The craft is being chased by a Chinese pirate speed boat; Jack Hulbert, in his own miraculous manner, has rescued the heroine (played by Nancy O'Neill) from the-clutches of the same'fell gang. He wants to submerge the craft. The girl's father does not. .No audience could forget Jack's expression, and his long comical face when he tells the iathei-in-law-to-be that assuredly the submarine will sink if it does not sink. He speaks Chinese. It sounds like it, anyhow;, and anyway, as lie says even when he is in China, "Who ever understands Chinese. There is just enough of the element of danger to lend an air of drama, but too much real, wholesome., spontaneous humour to allow 'it to become predominant to give more than a spice It is a real .ton of the sailors of the Navy; it is full of the sailor's devil-may-care; and to.crown all there runs through it the catchiest of tunes, which one finds onself humming hours afterwards. The supports are as good as ever. There was the Grand National at Aintree; there was London from the air in an aeroplane that did impossible-looking stunts; but perhaps the best showed glimpses of the old historic town of Sandwich, with its sleepy old world life and its long association in history. GAIETY THEATRE, TAKAPUNA. First-rate direction work and brilliant acting made "After the Ball," winch is the feature film at .the Gaiety Theatre Takapuna, this evening, one of Britain s finest film efforts of 1933. Esther Raleton and Basil Kathbone are starred. STRAND THEATRE, ONEHUNGA. Bright musical comedy and lavishly spectacular stage settings toim the bulk of "Cinderella's Fella," in which Marion Davies and a largo and brilliant cast will be scon to-night at the Strand Theatre, Onehunga. NEW EMPIRE THEATRE. ' Gracic Fields' most recently released musical romance, "This Week of Grace, will bo the chief film fare to be ottered to-night's patrons at the New Bmp.ire Theatre, Dominion Road, where Whistling in the Dark" (Ernest Trues) will also be shown. ' NEW CAPITOL THEATRE. Magnificent acting stands out in Charles Laughton's portrait of the degenerate white man in the film "White Woman, a tale of adventure and romance in the fever-ridden jungles of Borneo. The film screens to-night at the New Capitol Theatre, Dominion Road. Will Rogers and Marian Nixon arc also to be seen at the Capitol in the comedy-romance "Dr. Bull."