AMUSEMENTS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXI, Issue 10922, 23 September 1932, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

REGENT THEATRE. At the Regent to-night is the final screening of “Personal Maid,” featuring Nancy Carroll and Pat O’Brian. Delving into private lives and discovering real ■ people, this charming picture is a sensational and revealing story of modern society. The story is of a young girl, transported from an East Side tenement home to a New' York apartment. It deals with what she sees and hears in the world of wealth, loose morals and high living and what effect it all has on her character. A picture well worth seeing. ‘The Devil’s Lottery” is the title of to-morrow’s attraction which is given a splendid reputation by all who have viewed it. This production, featuring Elissa Landi, Victor McLaughlen, Beryl Mercer and an all star cast, is the story of the heart aches that often go with illgotten wealth. What would you do if you were to suddenly win one million pounds? Before you hazard a guess see what four people—a glamorous adventuress, a war veteran, a romantic young man and a miserly old lady—actually did with suddenly acquired fortunes. The answer is dishonour, tragedy, love and romance. The supporting programme include Fox Aust. and N.Z. Newsreel showing Catholics celebrating Corpus Christi at Melbourne, oldest Australian lady giving advice, netting flounders in Maoriland, ’varsity athletes’ meeting in Melbourne, and elephants roaming Australian bush; an entertaining comedy entitled “Parents Wanted”: “Big Game of the Sea,’ ’one of the Magic Carpet Series; and a Fox International Newsreel.

THE PASSION PLAY OP OBBRAMMERGAU. The Passion Play of Oberammergau, made world famous by the simple and devout people of that small Bavarian village, will be shown _in Tauranga at the Town Hall to-night. The screen presentation represents pictures painted with rare skill by a well-known London artist, and are absolutely works of art. The people of Oberammergau, who in 1633 made a vow that they would produce the Play once every decade, if their village, of some 2,000 inhabitants were freed from the Black Plague, have demonstrated their religious sincerity by refusing many tempting offers from wealthy American film companies for the film rights of the production. It was only after very tactful negotiations that those in charge of the present slides were able to gain permission to show the world the marvel of faith as displayed by the Bavarian peasants In their thankfulness at deliverance from the plague. A very interesting lecture accompanies the slides.