AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 192, 16 August 1938, Page 11

AMUSEMENTS.

ROXY— TIVOLL

"Everything in the musical bag of tricks, plus vaudeville, radio, slapstick and mock melodrama fills the action." That was the opinion formed by a prominent Hollywood critic after he had seen the hilarious feature "Start Cheering," which will have ita first screenings at the Rosy and Tivoli Theatres to-morrow. Featuring the inimitable antics of Jimmy Durante, large-nosed comical favourite, the film is a college story by Corey Ford, whose humorous pen hae never been in better form. Though Durante is the outstanding personality of the production, Walter Connolly, Charles Starrett, Joan Perry, Gertrude Nieeen and Raymond Walburn are prominent membere of an excellent cast. Of the specialty performers, mention must be made of Hal Leßoy, fast-stepping tap dancer, those "Three Stooges," Louis Prima'e band and Jimmy Green's band. In the development of the plot, a handsome screen hero gives up his work to go to college, immediately being billed, Hollywood fashion, as the star of the college. The efforts of hie managers to get him expelled are in vain, ae the film pursues its hilarious course. Co-feature at both theatres is "For the Service."

AMUSEMENT GUIDE. j' . [ TOWN HALL—Boxing- Ohamplonships. PICTURE THEATRES, REGENT—George Formby In "I See Ice." ! MAJESTIC—Mickey Rooney and Lewis ' Stone to "Judge Hardy' 9 Children" : and Preston Foster and Patricia ElMs In "Lady in the Morgrue." ST. JAMBS'—Nelson Eddy and Eleanor ( Powell t in "Rosalie.". embassy—oiympe Bradna and Gene Raymond In "Stolen Heaven." MAYFAIR—Jack Hulbert In "Kate Pins Ten" and Loretta Young- and Tyrone Power . In "Care Metropole." STRAND—"The Goldwyn Follies. ,, ROXY—Roger Pryor and Charlotte Henry in "The Return of Jimmy Valentine" . and Robert Wllcox In "Fug-ltlves." LONDON—"Hellshlp Morgan" and "Stream- • line Express." ADELPHI—Guest Night. ALEXANDRA—"The Return or the Scarlet I: Pimpernel" and "She's Got Every- ; thing." AMBASSADOR—Guest Night. ' ASTOR—"Miss Paclflc Fleet" and "Parole."j BERKELEY (Miction Bay)—" Fig-lit For Yout Lady." ' BRITANNIA — "On Such a Night" and ; "Crimson Romance." j; CAPITOL—"You Can't Have Everything , " • and "100 Men and a Girl." DE LUXE—"Swing High, Swing Low" and "Dangerous Adventure." ] EMPRESS—Guest Night. I OAIETY—"No Time to Marry." GREY LYNN—Guest Ndght. 1 KINGBLANO—PopuIar Night. - MAYFAIR—Guost Nig-ht. PEERLESS—"Thank You, Mr. Moto." •' PRINCE EDWARD —Guest Niffht. PRINCESS—Guest Nig-ht. REGAL—Oueet Nlg-nt. REGENT (Epsom)— Guest Night. RIALTO—"Stand In" and "o>iintupland. M BTAR (Newton) —"Souls At Sea"' and Border GaO." i STATE (Symonds Street)—" Wings of the Morning" and "Music For Madame." BTATE (Devonport)—Guest Night. , BTATE (OiMhunga)—"Night Spot" and "All In." - , STRAND (Onahunga)— <3uen Hlght. i TIVOLI —Guest Night. <! TUDOR —"She Harried an Arttac." i VICTORIA— Caen fllcM.