ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 300, 15 September 1936, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

Two-feature Programme at State A real thriller and a touching human story are on the double-feature programme now at the State Theatre. George O'Brien is the star of “Border Patrolman,” which supplies him With another of the robust outdoor roles in which he revels, In "Sins of Man” Jean Hersholt gives his best screen performance. He plays Chris. Freymann, the sexton, bell-ringer, and organist in the little church at Sehubruek, in the Tyrol. “Dancing Pirate.” Heralded as the first all-colour dancing musical, "Dancing Pirate” is to commence at the State Theatre on Friday. The cast includes Charles Collins, a new dancing find, and the dark and glamorous Steffi Duna. Comedy and Music on De Luxe Theatre Programme The Warner Bros.’ production “Viennese Love Song.” now showing at the De Luxe Theatre, is a lilting romance with Jean Muir. Gene Gerrard, and Hans Sonker in the starring roles. The last-named is the possessor of a remarkably pleasing voice, and with Jean Muir’s capable acting and Gene Gerrard's comicality, the story of the adventures in England of a Viennese singing star and his wife arrives pleasantly to a happy conclusion. The associate attraction is “The Big Noise, starring Guy Kibbee. There is a lilting and frothy lightness to this film that makes it highly humorous and entertaining, although this is punctuated by exciting episodes. Mae West at Regent Theatre Mae West deserts civilisation in “Klondike Annie,” now at the Regent Theatre. The story opens in San Francisco's Chinatown, where ’Frisco Doll, a beautiful white woman, acts as a syren for the gamblers. She flees to the Yukon, where she is told gold is to be picked up in the streets. “Fatal Lady.” “Fatal Lndy,” a film combining murder, mystery, music and romance, thrills’ and comedy, will commence at the Regent Theatre on Friday, starring Mary Ellis, noted stage and screen player, and former Metropolitan opera prima donna. Supporting her in the cast are Walter Pidgeon, John Halliday, Alan Mowbray, Norman Foster and Ruth Donnelly. Grace Moore’s New Film at Majestic Theatre In “The King Steps Out,” now at the Majestic Theatre,” Grace Moore leaves grand opera at the Metropolitan and for a change she is heard in a number of lightsome melodies of Fritz Kreisler, with their background of pre-war Austria. In “The King Steps Out,” the audience turns rather to the romance and strong comedy themes evolved in a wholly delicious tale of those care-free days when Europe danced and sang and took its pleasures as pleasures. Franchot Tone plays the title role, and makes a great job of a part to which none of the younger actors is more fitted. As a bright young man with his own ideas as to whom he would choose for his empress, he goes about his quest for the girl of his heart in his own unconventional way. Mystery Story, “Moonlight Murder,” at St. James “Moonlight Murder,” which is at the St. James Theatre, in conjunction with the final talkie tests shows how a grand opera singer, Gino D’Acosta (Leo Carrillo) is killed during a performance before a moonlight audience of 20,000 people. No weapon can be found, and the police are baffled. But this is where Steve Farrell (Chester Morris), a bright young detective. comes in. The mist thickens when another murder, as hard to account for, is committed. Finally the murderer of D'Acosta is shown to be the most unlikely man of the bunch, and his method as a novel one. The “Miserere,” “Tempest of the Heart,” “Anvil Chorus” and “Some Heavenly Force” are among Verdi masterpieces heard. "The Marriage of Corbal.” The screen adaptation of Rafael Sabatini’s stirring story of the French Revolution, “The Marriage of Corbal.” conies to the St. James Theatre on Friday. “Devil and the Deep” at the Paramount Theatre Charles Laughton, Gary Cooper mid Tallulah Bankhead have the leading roles in “The Devil mid the Deep” at the Paramount Theatre. The opening scene is the small gossipy cirdle of a British submarine base in North Africa, ■where Laughton is a commander whose insane jealousy over his young wife has a fertile seed-bed. She meets a charming young man, who proves to be her husband’s new lieutenant. Then the scene changes again to the interiot of the submarine at sea, where the maniac has trapped the two young people and declared his own disinclination to live any longer. “Under Two Flags” at Plaza Ouida’s deathless story. “Under Two Flags,” comes to the screen as one of the mightiest spectacle dramas of motion picture history. Ronald Colman. Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen. and Rosalind Russell head the cast of “Under Two Flags,” which is in its second week at the Plaza Theatre. The setting is_ a sun-baked post on the edge of Qie Sahara. Two Films at New Opera House “Sky Parade,” a fast-moving cavalcade of American aviation, in which two demobilised pilots work to develop a transcontinental airway, and “Timothy's Quest,” in which lovable Dickie Moore takes the part of a boy who apnoints himself protector to his baby sister, are at the New Opera House.