AMUSEMENTS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 10348, 8 April 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

THE REGENT. The three sessions held yesterday of “Gold Diggers of Broadway” drew crowded houses. Many people paid their second visit to see this wonderful film, and it is expected that the three sessions to-day again will attract record attendances. The special train from Te Puke leaves that town at 5.45 p.m. and will arrive in time for the seven o’clock session. The booking is par- ! ticularly heavy. j The glamour of “Gold Diggers of I Broadway” will long remain as it is i undoubtedly the most entertaining j and spectacular talkie yet produced. ' The season ends to-night. ! Commencing to-morrow niglC, the much talked of picture, “Kid Gloves.” i starring Conrad Nagel and Lois Wili son, is to be’ shown. OPERA HOUSE. i “Stand and Deliver,” the dashing and dramatic story of thrills, laughter and adventures iu England and modern Greece, which will be the featured attraction at the Opera House to-night and to-morrow, is played against the background of banditry ' which seriously threatened Greece I after the World War. Rod la Rocque is seen as Roger Norman, a young I Englishman who distinguishes him- ; self in the air during the war 1 and who finds the anti-war social life iof London boring. In search of adi venture be joins the Grecian cavalry. In a chivalrous moment, while resj cuing a beautiful Greek girl from the ! evil advances of a superior officer, rhe injures his superior and is forced to make a getaway with the girl. J Many lights and thrills follow as he 1 is called on to protect the girl from i a bandit chief. Beautiful Lupe Velez | who was Douglas Fairbanks’ leading lady iu “The Gaucho,” plays feminine lead.