ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 265, 4 August 1932, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. The entertainment provided at the Regent Theatre is of a particularly high standard. “Good-night, Vienna,” the main attraction, is a musical romance with its locale opening in pre-war Vienna. Jack Buchanan has the leading role, and is ably supported by Anna Neagle. “To-morrow and To-morrow.” “To-morrow and To-morrow,” Philip Barry’s play of a courageous, unconventional wife to whom marriage is not sufficiently soul-satisfyiug, is the latest starring film vehicle for Ruth Chatterton, recently completed at Paramount’s studios. This philosophical, yet clearly understandable, emotional drama is the Regent Theatre’s feature beginning to-morrow. Paul Lukas supports Miss Chatterton in the featured male lead. The play, the latest by the author of more than ten recent Broadway successes, enjoyed a long run in New York. “To-morrow and To-morrow” is the story of a young wife, whose emotional fires are kindled by a man she meets after her marriage. It tells of her struggle between loyalty to her husband and love for another man—of courage that brings fleeting moments of happiness to herself —and of a sacrifice that brings lasting happiness to others. Ruth Chatterton never has had greater opportunity to express her emotional personality than in “To-morrow and To-morrow.” It is exactly the type of picture that carried her to the peak of popularity—the vividly human dramatic role in which the public has welcomed her enthusiastically. DE LUXE THEATRE. Greta Garbo’s new film, “As You Desire Me,” screening at the De Luxe Theatre, has a story which, comes from the pen of the great Italian dramatist, Luigi Pirandello. Included in the supporting items is a film showing incidents of the third All Black Test. “Man About Town.” “Man About Town,” depicting behind-the-scenes life in Washington, rich in romance and abounding in thrills, opens at the De Luxe Theatre to-morrow. The picture relates a story of two men whose friendship was ironclad until both fell in love with the one woman. It is then that one of the men sets out to destroy the other. Warner Baxter appears in the leading role. As the lover of the. beautiful. heroine, he is sincere and convincing, and .as the suave proprietor of a fashionable gambling house, he is at his smartest. Karen Morley, little known on the screen until she gave her superb performance in “Arsene Lupin,” plays the leading feminine role. PARAMOUNT THEATRE. Lovers of Sherlock Holmes will enjoy to the full Conan Doyle’s detective story, "The Missing Rembrandt,” at the Paramount Theatre. Arthur Wontner gives a fiiiished performance as Holmes. A special Fox Movietone . News, depicting the final Rugby Test between New Zealand and Australia is being screened. “Mystery Ranch” and “Society Girl.” A double feature programme will be screened at the Paramount Theatre, commencing to-morrow. George O’Brien, popular star of outdoor romances, will be seen in “Mystery Ranch,” his latest picture produced by Fox Films. It depicts the harrowing adventures of a young Arizona ranger who is sent by his commanding officer to break up a gang of cattle rustlers. The other attraction, •“Society Girl,” features James Dunn, Peggy Shannon and /Spencer Tracy. “Society Girl” relates the romance between a ring hero. and a pampered pet of society. MAJESTIC THEATRE. “Night World.” the attraction at the Majestic Theatre, provides an insight into night-club life in the great American cities. The story moves swiftly, and one sees cabaret turns intermixed with gunplay. The supports are most entertain- ' * n S“Fighting Caravans.” One of the famous Zane Grey’s most notable stories, “Fighting Caravans,” will be screened at the Majestic Theatre to-morrow. The film adds to the action for which the author is well-known, a vividness that far transcends even the book version of this splendid story. The stars are LUy Damita, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall, and Gary Cooper. ST. JAMES THEATRE. To-day and to-night are the last screenings of beautiful Constance Bennett with Ben Lyon and David Manners ih “Lady With a Past.” “Ladies of the Jury.” Named by critics as one of the funniest comediennes on the screen, Edna May Oliver gives a new meaning, to comedy in a specially tailored role in the new attraction at St. James Theatre to-mor-row. “Ladies of the Jury” is a story of a typical mixed jury of men and women who can only agree to. disagree. The film plunges into an amazing series of comic situations and tells the story of twelve different types of jurors who find themselves locked in a. room for the , purpose of deciding the fate of a pretty show girl accused of murder. KILBIRNIE KINEMA. Screening at the Kilbirnie Kinema this evening is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s masterpiece, “Arsene Lupin,” a brilliant mystery-romance featuring John and Lionel Barrymore. MUSICAL COMEDY SEASON. “Blue Roses” is undoubtedly one of the best musical cbmedies seen at. Wei-, lington. Its season, at the Opera House, is a success, large Crbwds attending every performance. 7 7 ” This comedy, which was last year offering at the London Gaiety, witnessed the return to the New Zealand' stage of Miss Madge Elliott and Mr. Cyril Ritchard, the two dancing favourites, who have been on the other side of the world for five years, where both succeeded in enforcing an endorsement of Antipodean opinion as to their talent and charm. Miss Madge Elliott’s dances are for. the most part pas de deux with Mr. Ritchard, and so used are they to one another’s postures, paces and pirouettes that it is difficult to judge them apart. This was the ease in the charming number “Let’s be Sentimental,” While Miss Elliott romps with Grecian' abandon in “Follow the Girl,” and Mr. Ritchard scores laughter and applause in his “Dancing in Your Sleep” number. “Follow Through.” The outstanding success achieved bv Cyril Ritchard, Madge Elliott and the other members of J. C. Williamson’s company in "Blue Roses,” has, naturally, made playgoers look forward to their second production, “Follow Through,” a bright and merry musical comedy dealing with golf, which has enjoyed record seasons wherever it has been staged, aud which is to be staged at the Opera House on Saturday afternoon and night next, and on Monday and Tuesday evenings. The music in “Follow Through" is tuneful and attractive, and it is very richly endowed with good and clever eomedy. The ballets, it is said, furnish the talented girls in the present company with even better opportunities than they had in “Blue Roses.” “Follow Through,” with its golfing theme, had to be carefully handled by the producer, lest he should offend the susceptibilities of enthusiasts in the audience, “The authors of ‘Follow Through, ” wrote a Sydney critic, “have done well in creating a num- i her of new and original golf jokes, and ; the scene in the ladies’ dressing room at the golf club is one of the funniest con- i cocted for a musical comedy. In this I scene Cecil Kellaway and Cyril Ritchard i are the principals, and thejr antics are < highly amusing.” Mr. Kellaway ,is ' among the finest comedians to visit New i Zealand, and in “Follow Through'' he t undoubtedly gives one of the best per- ( formances. Miss Madge Elliott, as the < heroine, receives opportunities to further t display her talents as an artist, n singer, < and a perfect dancer. The cast includes 1 that sterling comedian, Leo Franklin, i Dulcie Davenport. Mona Zeppel, Mary 1 Rigby, Ceeil Pawley, Arthur Cornell, 1 Elved Jay, Eric Bush, and other artists, t