AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 266, 10 November 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

"BRIDAL SUITE." EMBASSY. Luise Anzengruber Annabella Neill McGill Robert Young Dr. McGrauer Walter Connolly Sir Horace Reginald Owen Mrs. McGill Billie Burke Director: William Thiele. (M.G.M.) Light comedy which is vastly entertaining is provided in the principal attraction at the Embassy Theatre this week in "Bridal Suite." Tale of the haphazard living of an American playboy let loose in London and on the Continent, it abounds in smart dialogue and humorous situations. Aucklanders will find it a highly amusing, if frothy comedy. With the Swiss Alps as a background, the story unfolds the troubles and triumphs of Robert Young, a gay American lad with too much money and a distinct aversion to work. He is so irresponsible that he forgets to show up at his own wedding, and this so incenses his down-to-earth father that the allowance that keeps him going is discontinued. Still the apple of his mother's eye, however, he continues his playboy existence, and after some exciting moments in the alps, where he redeems himself by rescuing his future wife, there is a happy ending. Robert Young is well cast as the playboy, but he is eclipsed in comedy by his screen mother, Billie Burke, who steals every scene by her nitwit asides and gushing truisms. Her pampering of her perfectly healthy son and her final insistence on a brain-health cure in the Swiss Alps are beautifully done. Another good performer is Gene Lockhart, Young's father, who is called upon to explode his anger almost every time he appears. Lockhart is remembered as Bob Crachit in the Embassy's last attraction. "A Christmas Carol.' , Chased out of the picture after a brief, hilarious appearance in the early stages. Arthur Treacher makes a bright contribution to the comedy. The supporting programme is a good one. It includes a neat cameo, "Too Old at Fifty," a Pathe Gazette showing activities in England and France, with some particularly interesting shots of Royal Air Force training, a cartoon trip around the world and an "Our Gang' , comedy. AMUSEMENT GUIDE. CIVIC SQUARE — Amusement Park. PICTURE THEATRES. STRAND —Cary Grant and Carole Lombard in "In Same Only." PLAZA —The Ritz Bros. In "The Three Musketeers." ClVlC —Ralph Richardson in "Clouds Over Europe." MAJESTlC —Priscilla Lane in "Brother Rat' , and Boris Karloff in "Mr. Wong- in Chinatown." ROXY —Pat O'Brien and Joan Blondell in "Off the Record." and William Boyd in "The Frontiersman." ST. JAMES , —Mickey Rooney and Lewis Stone in "The Hardys Ride High." REGENT —Doug-las Fairbanks, jun. and Basil Rathbone in "The Sun Never Sets." EMBASSY —Robert Young and Annabella in "Bridal Suite." ADELPHI —"The Story or Vernon and Irene Castle" and "Law West or Tombstone." ALEXANDRA —"Stage Coach" and "I've Got a Horse." ASTOR —'-Three Loves Has Nancy," and "Pirates of the Skies." AMBASSADOR —"Three Smart Girls Grow L'p" and "Rich Man, Poor Girl." AVONDALE —"Spring Madness" and "I Am the Law." BRITANNIA — "Huckleberry Finn" and "Stolen Lire." BERKELEY (Mission Bay) —" Jezebel" and "Pacific Liner." CAPITOL —"Pacinc Liner" and "Gangsters' Boy." CRYSTAL PALACE —"Confessions or a Nazi Spy" and "Gorilla." DE LUXE —"St. Martin's Lane" and "They Made Her a Spy." EMPRESS —"Stagecoach" and "Wire, Husband and Friend." GREY LYNN —"Sweethearts" and "King or Chinatown." GAIETY —"His Exciting Night" and "Sarety in Numbers." LIBERTY —"The Spirit or Culver." NEW ROYAL —"Secrets or a Nurse" and "The Housemaster." PRINCE EDWARD —"The Ladys From Kentucky" and "Huckleberry Finn." PEERLESS —"Too Hot to Handle" and "Test Pilot." PRINCESS —"White Banners" and "Elephants Never Forget." PICTUREDROME —"Peck's Bad Boy Witii the Circus." RlALTO —"ConTessions or a Nazi Spy" and "Gorilla." REGAL —"The Little Princess" and "Mr. Moto on Danger Island." REGENT (Epsom) — "Gunga Din." STATE (Devonport)—"Heart or the North" and "The Duke or West Point." STRAND (Onehunga) —"Stablemates." STATE (Onehunga) —"Wuthering Heights' , and "Girl From Mexico." STATE (Symonds Street) —"The Great Waltz." STAR —"I pee Ice- and "Pennies From Heaven." TUDOR —"Four's a Crowd." TIVOLI —"The Frontiersman" and "Off the Record." VICTORIA — "Premiere" and "Illegal Traffic." RADIO PROGRAMMES. 1YA —7.30 p.m., sports talk by Gordon Hutter; S.u, favourite passages from Matthew Arnold and Lord Tennyson, by Professor \V. A. Sewell; 5.2-2. "uve-rture to a Picaresque Comedy." Arnold B.ix; 5..14, Tessa Birnie, pianist; 9.-25. "Concertante Symphony for Violin ad vnoa." Mozart. 2YA —B.O p.m., "Jesters' , overture, Ganne; 5.6, group of Maori songs by Hinerangi Hikuroa, soprano; 8.17, "A Devonshire Lane" suite; 8.50, selection by Fanny McDonald, May Hyam and Desmond Lavin; 9.25. "Eb and Zeb"; 9.35, band programme; 10.15, rhythm on record. IYX —B.O, romance and melody; 8.27. comedians calling; 9.0. "Tit-bits of To-day—Hits or Yesterday"; 9.30, musical comedy gems. IZM —B.O p.m., Maorilander, Tit-bits- 9.35 Pamela's weekly chat.