ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 173, 19 April 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

Eleanor Powell In Bright Comedy at Majestic A sparkling musical romance, “Born to Dauee,” is now screening at the Majestic Theatre. The production is filled with lilting and original tunes and delightful new dances. The songs are the work of Cole Porter, whose talent was much in evidence in the film “Anything Goes,” and who composed the successful songs “Night ..nd Day” and “You’re the Top.” The dances of “Born to D,.nce” are the creations of David Gould, originator of “the Continental.” These works of art are interpreted by a large cast, outstanding among whom is Eleanor Powell. Exciting Double Bill At King’s Theatre Margot Grahame, the talented British player, ..ives a fine performance as a girl in the shadow of the law in “Night Waitress,” the first picture on the double bill at tlie King's Theatre. Working in a night-hawk cafe, she meets all the crooks of the city and knows all about them. She just emerges from one entanglement when a bright seafaring man, Gordon Jones, brings along romance and another heap of trouble. The two are innocently involved with gangsters, and tlie heroine walks with her life in constant danger until justice is served and everyone is happy ever after. In “Wanted : Jane Turner,” the drama of America’s Postal Service G-Men, is the principal theme in an exciting plot. Lee Tracy and Gloria Stuart wise-crack their way through a story rich in sensation and tinged with laughter. Not for a moment can interest flag in this story of crime tracked down through the postal service. “Now and Forever” At Paramount Theatre Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard and Shirley Temple are the stars who make “Now and Forever,” now showing at the Paramount Theatre, an engrossing film. Gary Cooper appears as an international adventurer who lives by his wits, and Carole Lombard as the woman who stands by him through thick and thin. Shirley Temple gives an amazing performance as\ the ne’er-do-well’s little daughter, who endeavours to make him live up to the motto “Honour bright.” The story opens in China, where the adventurer defrauds an hotelkeeper, and departs for the United States. Jerry Day, the adventurer, meets his little "daughter in America, and decides to take her on a tour of Europe. Jerry attempts to go straight for a time, hut meets a jewel thief, and is induced to relieve a wealthy widow of a diamond necklace. There is a thrilling climax, in which fatal shots are exchanged, and the little daughter is borne away by the wealthy widow to enter upon a healthier existence. Amusing Comedy At St. James Theatre Irene Dunne, who created a very favourable impression by her appearance in dramatic roles in “Magnificent Obsession” and “Show Boat,” gives an engaging comedy performance in “Theodora Goes Wild.” tlie current attraction at the St. James Theatre. The .story fs a very entertaining one, relating the adventjirese of a small town girl, who writes a book about the sort of life she longs to lead. Melvyn Douglas plays opposite Miss Dunne as the artist who illustrates her book, while Thomas Mitchell gives an amusing characterisation as the editor of tlie paper in the little town where the girl lives. “Lloyds of London” Still At Plaza Theatre Tyrone Power plays opposite beautiful Madeleine Carroll in a powerful romance that changed tlie fate of a nation in “Lloyds of London,” in its fourth week at the Plaza Theatre. An integral part of the fortunes of Great Britain, Lloyds of London found her early struggles closely bound up with marine policies, and Jonathan Blake innovated the now

famous procedure of insuring everything and anything. The Battle of Trafalgar, which founded Britain’s sea power and ensured the greatness of a new commercial era, is the climax of the picture. Double; Feature Programme At De Luxe “Heart of the West,” starring William Boyd and Jimmy Ellison as those hardriding and quick-shooting characters, Hopalong Cassidy and Jimmy Nelson, is now at the De Luxe Theatre in conjunction -with “Three Cheers for Love,” with Eleanore Whitney and Robert Cummings. “Heart of the West” tells the story of how Hopalong and his companion, when riding to join an outfit that pays high wages, are required to keep a cattie rustling trail open. A thrilling scene is when the rustlers stampede a herd toward a fence that the heroes have helped to erect. “Three Cheers for Love”_ is a musical comedy, in which a jobless theatrical troupe put up at a girls’ school which is about to close down for the want of pupils. The desired plan of the troupe is to secure a Hollywood contract, and this is not achieved without a number of amusing contretemps. “MAKE WAY FOR A LADY” Showing at State Theatre Quaint satire, quiet but effective, is the keynote of “Make Way for a Lady,” nowshowing at the State Theatre. The principal figure is Anne Shirley, in the role of a publisher’s daughter who, not unnaturally, has grown up with the intention of writing great love novels. Gonsenut’itly she longs to have a secret sorrow.” and finds it, when she gets an idea that her father, a widower, has for many vears cherished a secret passion for one of his best-selling novelists, from i. hose loving arms he had been separated nlv by hi family ties. How he muddle up his real romnace and almost rums it makes an engaging film, a, “The Plainsman.” One of the most spectacular of Cecul B. De Mille’s most recent productions, rhe Plainsman,” starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur, comes to the State theatre next Friday. “Gold Diggers of 1937” At Regent Theatre Two popular stars, Dick Powell and Joan Blundell, are seen at their best in “Gold Diggers of 1937” at the Regent Theatre. It is a lavish show in the best “gold te-ers’” tradition, and with comc-’- song, dance, and spectacle there is never a dull moment. Glenda Farrell and Victor Moore have the secondary romance. Relating the adventures of a singing life insurance salesman (Powell) and an intrigue whereby he signs up a theatrical magnate (Moore) for a million dollar policy, the plot sparides and bubbles merrily along to a spectacular finale. Double Bill At New Opera House Most of the action in “Fugitive in the Sky,” now showing together with “Here Comes Carter” at the New Opera House, takes place in an American continental air-liner and in a Kansas duet storm. In the sky and in the dust storm there is enacted a drama in which a famous criminal, a reporter, pilot and stewardess ( Jean Muir) take part. Ross Alexander, Glenda Farrell and Anne Nagel have the leading in “Here Conics Carter,” the story of which centres on the activities of a radio announcer who exposes a film star’s lying publicity and earns the enmity of the star’s gunmeu friends.