ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 275, 16 August 1932, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. Starring that inimitable pair, Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn, “A Night Like This,” a worthy success to "Rookery Nook,” is now at the Regent Theatre. “A Night Like This” opens with glimpses of London in the throes of a real “old man” fog. Tom Walls has the part of a constable whose zest for promotion leads him into lone-handed probing into the operations of a swindling night club management. Winifred Shotter is one of the very attractive ballet in this resort, and the dancing and jazz music is no insignificant part of this picture. Ralph Lynn lives up to the finest traditions of screen nonsense, and Mary Brough is a proper old lady whose sense of the fitness of things is continually outraged. Claude Hulbert is -the complete idiot, and looks it. He has cultivated an inane expression which is. only second in absurdity to the facial control which Ralph Lynn exploits so well. grand opera house. Two films of exceptional merit, “This Reckless Age” and “The Ruling Voice” are at present showing at the Grand Opera House. “The Ruling Voice” is a strong, upstanding drama, of racketeering exploits in New York. Tlie leader of the gang pursues his ruthless course until his daughter ascertains the source of her father's wealth, and turns from him with loathing and disgust. The acting of Walter Huston, Dudley Digges, aiid Loretta Young is excellent. The Paramount picture “This Reckless Age” draws a rather brutal picture of the selfish heartlessness of America s younger set toward their parents. PARAMOUNT /THEATRE. Modern methods, of the American police force in the prevention and detection of crime are vividly portrayed in “Radio Patrol,” now showing at the Paramount Theatre. It illustrates how qxjlice cars on patrol duty throughout the great cities are kept in constant touch with headquarters. With crimes occurring at the rate of one a minute, extraordinary methods have to be adopted, and radio is proving < its value in the detection of crime in all the great cities of the world. DE LUXE THEATRE. “Letty Lynton,” a sensational drama of modern society and its reckless diversions, heads the entertaining film programme screening at the De Luxe Theatre. In “Letty Lynton” the leading roles are taken by Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery. The story is that of an heiress whose preoccupation with the new “feminine freedom” entangles her in a dangerous affair with an ardent South American lover. MAJESTIC THEATRE. “Alias the Doctor,” a powerful First National film now at the Majestic Theatre, tells a moving story of a surgical genius who longs to get away from the profession and back to the girl and the farm he loves. Beautiful Marian Marsh makes a most loveable heroine, and excellent work is done by Lucille La Verne as the ambitious mother. ST. JAMES THEATRE. There is a splendid entertainment for everyone in the screen adaptation of Fannie Hurst’s novel, “Symphony of Six Million,” now screening at the St. James Theatre. Blending laughter with tears in a real ‘‘melody of life,” the story deals with the life of a young Jewish lad, Felix Klauber, born with a spark of genius, who is able to become a brilliant surgeon by the uncomplaining sacrifice of his gnreqts. KILBIRNIE KINEMA. Slim Summerville and Louise Fazenda are together in “Racing Youth.” the current attraction at the Kilbirnie Kinema.