AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 183, 4 August 1936, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS.

"MACBETH" UP TO DATE. Of course, .some benighted soul who did not possess due reverence for Drama had to giggle at the sight of a papier-mache model of a human head, blood bespattered with what everyone knew really to be red ink, rolling awkwardly from a bath towel—and one of the biggest moments in Dame Sybil Tliorndike's "Macbeth" was irretrievably ruined. So Professor Sewell, when he stages "Macbeth" at the University College Hall this evening, tomorrow night and again on Thursday, will amend Shakespeare to the degree of having no gory head, fewer and less horrific witches, no cauldron, etc. It will be Shakespeare up to. the minute.

AMUSEMENTS GUIDE. PICTURE THEATRES. MAJESTIC—WiIIiam Boyd mid Jimmy Ellison In "Call of»lhe Prairie" and Johnny Downs and Betty Burgess in "Coronado." REGENT —Gary Cooper and Marlenc Dietrich in "Desire." EMBASSY—"Whom t'.ie Gods Love." ST. JAMES'—Fninchnt Tone and Loretta Young In "The Unguarded Hour." LONDON—Bing- Crosby and Carole Lombard in "We're Not Dressing." AMBASSADOR—Guest Night. ASTOR—Guest Night. BRITANNIA—"Escape Me Never." ) CAPITOL—Guest Night. GAIETY —"Heart's Desire;" GREY LYNN—"She Couldn't Take It." KINGSLAND—"Legion or Valour." MAYFAIR —Guest Nigilt. PRINCE EDWARD—Guest Night. STAR (Newton) —Douglas Fairbanks, Jun and Elissa Landi in "The Amateur Gentleman." STATE (Symonds Street) —"RilT Raff." STRAND (Onehunga)—Guest Night. TUDOR —"Mutiny on the Bounty." VICTORIA—Guest Night.