AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12295, 8 April 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

Town Hall . . Million pictures exploil Hie Intest kill]; ill seientilie progress with a drama railed “Trapped by Television." which screens finally to-night at Hie Town Hall Theatre. Tile unlimited seope of television's possibilities are entertainingly and dramatically shown in the new picture, which features Mary Aster an.. Lyle Talbot at the head of a .strong east.

The Regent

At the Thonlro to-day and Friday. Joseph Sehmidl, Die diminutive Continental tenor, makes his second appearance in a British film. "A Star Fell from Heaven." studiously fashioned to lit his style and appeal. Wind lie may laid; in inches, and Hie eonvenl ional form of romantic screen allure, lie certainly makes up for witli Ids singing. In wind may lie correctly called a semi-palhelie ride, witli a touch of I’agliaeeism about it, lie es-

says a very eoiivineing portrayal. Supporting Joseph Schmidt are Hilly Milton as Lincoln, \V. 11. IJerry as Tomson. Florine McKinney as Anne, with George Graves in a grand role as film producer.

Packed with dramatic situations with fast motving action and .suspense, “Career Woman,” Twentieth Century-Fox’s story of a lonely backwoods girl's light for freedom and justice, also screens a! (lie Regent Theatre to-day and to-morrow. Claire Trevor. Michael Whalen, Isabel Jewell. Kric Linden,' Virginia Field and Gene Lockhart are real tired in Hie film which fells a gripping story id' murder, mystery and love. The story sketches in powerful terms the struggle of a gentle, sensitive girl, Isabell Jewell, to free herself from the domination of her tyrannical father, who forbids her to sec a boy she loves, Kric Linden.