ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 301, 16 September 1936, Page 16

ENTERTAINMENTS

Mystery Story, “Moonlight Murder,” at St. James The murder of a grand opera singer, Gino D’Acosta (Leo Carrillo) during a performance before a moonlight audience of 20,000 people, is the .basis of the plot of “Moonlight Murder,” which, in conjunction with the finals of the series of screen tests, will conclude at the St. James Theatre to-morrow‘evening. Two-feature Programme. Varied entertainment is promised in the double-feature programme which is to succeed “Moonlight Murder” at the St. James Theatre on Friday. One of Rafael Sabatini’s thrilling romances of the turbulent days of the French Revolution is brought to the screen in “The Marriage of Corbal,’’ starring Nils Asther, Hazel Terry, Noah Beery, and Hugh Sinclair. Another book which has made great appeal to many thousands of readers and should retain its appeal as a film, is Harold Bell Wright’s “The Mine With the Iron- Door,” the screen version of which will also be' on the programme. Two-feature Programme at State Concluding to-morrow at the State Theatre is a double-feature programme consisting of a real thriller and a touching human drama. George O’Brien is the star of “Border Patrolman,” and in “Sins of Man” Jean Hersbolt gives his best screen performance. “Dancing Pirate.” A new dancing sensation of the screen, Charles Collins, whose dancing has been compared with that of the great Fred Astaire, will be seen in “Dancing Pirate, which is to commence at the State Theatre on Friday. “Dancing Pirate” is a gay, musical romance of old Caiilirnia, screened entirely in technicolour. Also in the cast are Frank Morgan, Steffi Duna and Luis Alberni. Mae West’s “Klondike Annie” at Regent Theatre Mae West deserts civilisation in “Klondike Annie,” in its final two days at the Regent Theatre. The story opens in San Francisco’s Chinatown, where Frisco Doll, a beautiful white woman, acts as a siren for the gamblers/but she flees to the Yukon. “Fatal Lady.” “Fatal Lady,” 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. As Marian Stuart, alias Maria Delesano, Miss Ellis gives an unusually fine performance in the role of an opera star whose admirers are mysteriously murdered. Comedy and Music on De Luxe Theatre Programme The Warner Bros.’ production, “Viennese Love Song,” concluding to-morrow at the De Luxe Theatre, is a lilting romance with Jean Muir, Gene Gerrard, and Hans Sonker in the starring roles. 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. The supporting programme includes a Universal Newsreel and musical selections by the Orchestra De Luxe and organ. ‘‘Public Enemy’s Wife." Pat O’B.rien is featured in “Public Enemy’s Wife,” which comes to the De Luxe Theatre on Friday. It is powerful drama in which G-men figure in the romance of a girl who had been’ unjustly put in prison. Grace Moore’s New Film at Majestic Theatre Grace Moore’s newest film, which is at the Majestic Theatre, is 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. “Devil and the Deep” at the Paramount Theatre Charles Laughton, Gary Cooper and Tallulah Bankhead have the leading roles in “The Devil and the Deep,” a popular revival which is at the Paramount Theatre. The leading characters are members of the small gossipy circle 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. ‘Tenthouse.” A cast of favourites, including Myrna Loy, Warner Baxter, Charles Butterworth and: Nat Pendleton, is brought to the screen in “Penthouse,” which is to commence a revival season at the Paramount Theatre on Friday. “Under Two Flags” at Plaza Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, and Rosalind Russell, head the cast of the screen version of Ouida’s story, “Under Two Flags,” a mighty spectacle drama, which is. in its second week at the Plaza Theatre. The setting is a sun-baked post on the edge of the Sahara. Two Films at New Opera House “Sky Parade,” a fast-moving cavalcade of American aviation, which introduces Jimmie - Alien to the screen, and “Timothy’s Quest,” in which lovable Dickie Moore takes the part of a boy who appoints himself protector to his baby sister, are at the New Opera House.