AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 268, 12 November 1935, Page 12

AMUSEMENTS.

ROXY AND TIVQOLI. Laughter and tear*, comedy and neartragedy follow each other in quick succession and bring drama and suspense to Will Rogers' rousing picture of Mississippi titcumboat life, "Steamboat Kouud the Bend," which comee to-morrow to the Roxy and Tivoli Theatres. Two unusual entertainment elements combine to make the great and moving etory of "Steamboat Round the Bend." One is the laugh-filled rivalry of Will Kogers and Irvin S. C'obb, America's two greatest humorists, as the crusty captains of competing boats; the other is the wistful and tender romance of Anne Shirley and John McGuire. At first Rogers objects to the boy and girl romance, but when the youngsters get into trouble <ind the boy is sentenced to hang for killing a man, the wise old river captain comes through with flying colours. The battle, between the captains and the dramatic etory reach their climaxes in the thrilling river race which brings "Steamboat Round the Bend" to a happv conclusion. The second film at both theatres is "Fog Over 'Frisco," a combination of mystery drama and romantic drama which promises unusual entertainment. There ie thrill upon thrill, including a mysterious disappearance of a wealth society girl, a kidnapping, two murders and a suicide, a gun battle in which the master mind of a band of international bond swrndlers is killed, a stirring chase and a hand-to-hand battle on the wharves of San Francisco Bay. Bette Da vie and Donald Woods have the leading roles. TWO LITTLE THEATRE PLAYS. Once banned by the English censors for many years, Oscar Wilde's "Salome" has at last found its way, it might be said, into the literature of the British theatre. _ The play is receiving an excellent and faithful interpretation by Mr. Frederic K. MeGalium for the Auckland Little Theatre Society currently in the Town Hall Concert Chamber, in conjunction with a presentation of Gordon Bottomley's brilliant drama "King Lear's Wife," with a Shakespearean background. In "Salome." a talented and suitable cast portrays the famous roles of King Herod and his cruel Queen, Herodias, while Salome brings her famous Dance of the Seven Veils to the shocking point with no small degree of artistry.

AMUSEMENTS GUIDE. CONCERT CHAMBER — Little Theatre Society presents "k'lng Lear's Wire" and "Salome." H.M. THEATRE — J. ana N. Tait present the Viennese Boys' Choir. PICTURE THEATRES. MAJESTIC —James Cagney and Ann Dvorak fn "G-Men." STRAND —Shirley Temple and John Bolee fn "Curly Top." Civic —Gladys MoncrletT (Soprano), Gil Dech (Plnnlst) and John Robertson (Cornetist) on the stage. LONDON—Claudette Colbert and Fredrlc March In "To-nlgrht Is Ours." ROXY AND TlVOLl—Robert Young in "Tho Band Plays On" nnd Edmund Lowe In "Thunder in the Night." ST. JAMES'—Dick Powell and Joan Blondell in "Broadway Gondolier." PLAZA—Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn In "Stormy Weather." NATIONAL AND PRINCE EDWARD— Joe E. Brown in "Bright Lights." associate reature, "What Happened to Harkness." REGENT—Fredric March and Merle Oberon in "The Dark Ang-el." ADELPHI —"Manhattan Moon." ALEXANDRA —"Ffg-htlng- Stock." AMBASSADOR —"The Mask or Fu ManchU." ASTOR—"Blossom Time." BRITANNIA—"CharIie Ctoan to Paxils." CAPITOL —"Sweet Music." CRYSTAL PALACE —"Naughty Marietta." DE LUXE—"Brown on Resolution." EMPRESS —"Black Sheep." GREY LYNN—"Forgotten Men." KINQSLAND —"Under the Pampas Moon." LIBERTY—"No More Orchids." MAYFAIR—"Roberta." PRINCESS —"The White Parade." i regal—"Break or Hearts." REGENT (Epsom)—" Orchids to You." RIALTO —"Naughty Marietta." STATE (Devonport)—"Welcome Home." STATE (Onehunga)—"Bitter Tea of General Yen." STATE (Symonds Street) —"Sanders or tho River." STAR (Newton) —"The Mighty Barnum." STRAND (Onehunga)—"Under Cover Man." TUDOR—"Crime Without Passion." VICTORIA —"Reckless." "If girls were to give up smoking and drinking and wear the clothing their grandparents wore, they might live to be as old as I am," says Mrs. Sarah Musgrave, of Auburn, Australia, who has celebrated her 105 th birthday. "Many females —I call them so designedly—go about half naked." she says. "They cannot really be blamed, because they have lost their maidenly reason by blindly following overseas fashions." Mrs. Musgrave is believed to. be the oldest,.Auw-tralian-born woman alive.