ENTERTAINMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 9, 11 July 1934, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE,

Lots Fall in Love," at the Regent lheatrc, is tho story of a temperamental Swedish ■ actress who leaves a him, producer in a hole and what happens in consequence. At his wits' end to finish the him, the director, played by Edmund Lowe, finds a young girl ]n a circus, and, by providing her with a Swedish accent, turns her into a star capable of handling the job which his erstwhile "lead" has dropped. Things go reasonably well, and the "find" (Ann bothern) is getting into her stride when complications arise. The director falls in love with the alleged Swede, but has to bite the dust when his incensed fiancee (Annam Jordan) upsets calculations by exposing the new and glamorous Nordic star. As the director persists in being in iove, everything works out in the end.

'"The Bowery." The attraction at the Regent Theatre next Inday will be 20th Century's .production. The Bowery," a story of the days when New York's celebrated • "Bowery" was at its height, when beer was beer and LarneNation was trying her utmost to Have it prohibited and to have saloons closed Saloons, dancing girls, the famous Lame Nation and her anti-saloon crusades, and all the persons and incidents associated with the Bowery in the days when it was really "tough," are faithfully reproduced in this film, which stars AVallaee Beery, George Baft, Fay Wray, and Jackie Looper. "The Bowery" has received most nattering notices both in America and in England. It has a good plot, and is briniiul ot action from start to finish.

GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

Hie theme of "Sisters Under the Skin," at the Grand Opera House, suggests that -when a man tires of money-' mating and wants to play, a wife should accept her husband's invitation to frolic, otherwise another woman will take her place. John Yat'cs lias made millions, and all he wants to do is to travel. His wife, busy -with her trifling social calls, refuses to stop and play, so Blossom Bailey, a stage girl, goes with him on a tour of European playgrounds. When Zukowski, a musician, meets them in Paris, Blossom and he fall in love, but the gh-1 is loyal to her benefactor and refuses love if it means despair to her wealthy patron. The girl and the wife meet, and like each other, and there is a denouement when Yatcs learns the truth when he spies on Blossom and Zukowski in the letter's apartment.

DE LUXE THEATRE.

. "Manhattan Melodrama" is showing at the De Luxe Theatre. From the beginning of their lives, when Blackie Gallagher and James Wade are flung together into the East River after a steamer .fire, their spheres are strangely associated. One is a serious student of law, steadily moving forward in his career, the other a happy-go-lucky gambler and minor racketeer. It is from this point that the story of the film develops in strange ways until it reaches a point where oue man has to choose between his duty as he sees it and the very life of his friend.

Son of j. Sailor," a comedy hit, come 3 to the De Luxe Theatre on Friday. Joe E. Brown and Johnny Mack Brown are the stars. They are not related, either in life or in pictures. But in the course of the story, their paths cross and recross so many times that it takes half a dozen admirals and also the entire Pacific Fleet to get them untangled. Joe E. Brown and Johnny Mack Brown are pals on the same aeroplane carrier and fall in love with the same girl.

PARAMOUNT THEATRE. \

The current programme at the Paramount Theatre is now in the last two days of .a two weeks' season. Ralph Lynn has never contributed anything funnier than'"Up to the Neck," a "Ben Travers' farce with Mary Brough and Winifred Shotter supporting him in the principal roles. There, are short subjects in the first part, and Paul T. Cullen at the organ is an additional attraction.

On Friday there will be presented at the Paramount Theatre for the first time in New Zealand Ivor Novello, author, actor, and screen director in the biggest success of . his-career, entitled "I Lived with You." The picture, is adapted from Novello's own stage success of the same title, and the characterisations are done by the brilliant players who created .the roles in_ the London production. A Russian prince is found starving in London by a girl, is taken home, and befriended. The prince's, notions of life as compared with the ideas of the humble family create an endless chain of fun of quite unusual character. Novello's performance of the prince is described as being the best he lias given the stage or screen. The supporting players include Ursula Jeans, Ida Lupino, Minnie Raynor, and Eliot JMakeham.

QUEEN'S THEATRE

Inner secrets of city politics, the working of the underworld, and the astounding story of the rise o£ a gang ruler are the elements of "The Secret Six," a drama of modern American life, which ' commences at the Queen's Theatre ou Friday. Wallace Beery plays the principal role as the sinister Scorpio. The cast ateo includes Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Marjorie Rarnbeau. The second attraction will bo William Haines in tho romance "Way Out West."

KING'S THEATRE.

With motors tuned up, lucky pieces all polished, steel nerves prepared for new tests, .Hollywood's battalion of death, the stunt flyers, spreads its wings once more in a thrill-drama of the air, in "Flying Devils," now showing at the King's Theatre, with Eric Linden, Arline Judge, Bruce Cabot, Ralph Bellamy, and Cliff Edwards in a melodrama of the perils and loves of exhibition aviators.

KILBIRNIE KINEMA,

'•Gallant Lady," starring Ann Harding and Clive Brook, will be screened.at the Kilbirnie Kinema touight. The supporting programme includes newsreels, "Water ■Joy" (U.F.A. Gem), "Show Boat" (organloguo), and a Walt Disney cartoon. Commencing' tomorrow, "Rookery Nook" will play a return season of two nights.

SEASIDE PICTURES.

At the Seaside Pictures, Lyall Bay, tonight, "Colonel Blood" will be presented. This thrilling tale pictures life under the Stuarts without any of the unnecessary frills and furbelows sometimes associated with costume stories. The cast includes Frank Cellier, Anne Grey, Mary Lawson, Allan Jeayes, Hay Petrie, Arthur Chesncy, and Stella Arbenina.

RIVOLI THEATRE, NEWTOWN,

"Vanity Fair," the screen version of William Thackeray's immortal romance, is at tho Rivoli Theatre. Conway Tearle, Lionel Barrymare; Barbara Kent, Anthony Bushell, and .'Walter Byron are in the cast. "Vanity Fair" is exceptionally well acted and excellently produced. The second attraction is "Too Young to Marry," with Loretta Young and Grant Withers.

ARTCRAFT THEATRE,

A rollicking, robust comedy-drama, "I Like It That Way," is showing at the Artcraft Theatre. Roger Pryor and Gloria Stuart are the principals. The story is a happy mixture of sophisticated dialogue, scintillating songs, and dancing feet. Through this light and frothy frolic runs the serious vein of a good girl who is determined to stay that way when life compels her to sacrifice herself to the great god Mammon.

QUEEN'S THEATRE,

The Mask of Fu Manchu," with Boris Karloff, is at the Queen's Theatre. The dramatic thrills include the kidnapping of a scientist, the torture of the bell and tho spiked room, the great Feast of the Mongols, and adventures in tho strange laboratory of Fu Manchu and the rescue of his victims. The second attraction is the comedy-drama, "Caught Short." ■

EMPIRE THEATRE, ISLAND BAY.

A special programme in aid of the Berhnnipore Football Club fuiids is to bo screened at the Empire Theatre this evening. The principal attraction is "This Is the. Life," starring Gordon Harkor and Binnie Hale. The story provides excellent comedy entertainment. The supporting attraction is a travelogue entitled "Kamet Conquered." On Friday and Saturday ;"&&!'- Kill head the programme.

STATE THEATRE.

The tenuous thread upon which the merrymaking and gorgeously original ballats are strung in "Scandals," at tho State Theatre, is the behind-scenes loves and hates of the big family of stars taking part, and while Rudy Vallee and Alice Faye fall hi and out most effectively and rapidly, as "Jimmy 'Martin" and "Kitty Donnelly," others, including Jimmy Durante, as "Happy," and his girl, do not leave them a monopoly in this respect. Humour abounds throughout. It is in the artistic and novel spectacles that "Scandals" excels. If there is a fault it is that the wealth of detail, exquisitely arrayed, is on the screen scarcely long enough to be appreciated, as scene succeeds scene in amazing variety. Thp mirror effects of pools in a spacious flag-pathed garden present a wonderful [reversal of one beautiful billowy ballet, and the architectural intricacies provided for other tiered ballets arc wonderful.

ST. JAMES THEATRE.

"There are always sinners to be taken in," says the deacon in "Half a Sinner" at the St. James Theatre. The deacon, as played by Berton Churchill, is a charming mixture of crooked religion and religious crookedness. His crookedness is really religious because it is practised to extricate the heroine and the hero (Sally Blanc and Joel McCrea) from the claws of other crooks; . but his religion is a veneer more calculated to fill theatres than to fill churches.

Three celebrities of the cinema worldIrene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy, and Constance Cummings — provide brilliant comedy-drama in "This Man Is Mine," the nest attraction for the St. James

Theatre. In a marital triangle story which reveals the fact that socialities are much like their proletariat brothers and sisters when it comes to domestic strife, Bellamy is'lured from his screen mate, Miss Dunne, by an habitual home-wrecker, played by Miss Cummings. When he loses the siren to another man he goes home to repent on Miss Dunne's shoulder, but finds much to'his surprise that the hand of welcome is n hand of iron.

MAJESTIC THEATRE.

"Three-Cornered Moon," at the Majestic Theatre, is the story of a typically comfortable American family and their light against the depression. Tho picture is a lively record of a. family's courageous battle against circumstances. It is packed with delightfully inconseijuential humour, Claudette. Colbert is the heroine, and* Richard Arlen is her beau, and Mary Boland plays the part of Mrs. Nellie Rimplegar. "The Last Roundup" tells Zane Grey's story of "The Border Legion."

SHORTT'S THEATRE,

"Lady for a Day" is showing at Shortt's Theatre. The cast is headed by Warren William, May Robson, and Jean Parker, one of the youngest stars of the screen. The picture is founded on Damon Rauyon's short story, "Madam La Gimp," a story of Broadway's night life, gripping in its touching drama and lightened by appealing humour.

"Fog," which comes 'to the Shortt's Theatre on Friday, is a mystery thriller. It is a startlingly realistic story o£ what might actually happen aboard a transatlantic liner when men and women of strong hates and passions are grouped together in an eerie, sombre setting, punctuated only by the weird shrieks of a blatant fog-horn. Donald Cook, Maty Brian, and Reginald Denny, play the important roles. Jack Holt is the featured player in "Master of Men," a powerful drama which will be shown in support.

BRITANNIA THEATRE.

A bachelor gay on his wedding eve, preparing "The Love Nest" for his brideenter a lovely stranger in nifty pyjamas, demanding-shelter for the night! Scandal —with limitless laughs in every, tongue wag. This is the theme of the first feature film at the Britannia Theatre. The second feature is "When London; Sleeps," a mystery film, possessing a theme that is intensely gripping.. . When a husband tries to deceive his wife he is almost certain to become involved in a series of difficulties. This is especially true if he is assisted in his. fabrications by one as dumb as Stan Laurel; who, with his side-splitting, eyebrow-raising partner, Oliver Hardy, is seen in the comedy "Sons of the Desert,", coming to the Britannia Theatre on Friday. Assisted by a notable east, including Charley Chase, Mac Busch, Dorothy Christy, and Lucien Littlefield, a situation of wife deception is turned into a screamingly funny picture that ably colours the mirth-provoking antics of the stellar comedy team. Gordon Harker appears in the mystery drama "The Man They Couldn't Arrest" on the supporting programme. The film is based on "Seamark's" well-known drama. ■

REGAL THEATRE, KARORI

Tonigbt at the Regal Theatre "A Southern Maid," with Bebe Daniels and an all-star cast, will be screened. It is a story of a beautiful daughter of Spain. Supports include a Variety Scenic and Musical. On Friday and Saturday "Berkeley Square" will be screened. A. special attraction for the weekend will be.the | famous coloured cartoon "Three Little Pigs."

OUR THEATRE, NEWTOWN,

Leslie Howard and Heather Angel are co-starred in "Berkeley Square," to be shown at Our Theatre tonight. The story concerns a man who believes the past still exists. His desire to take himself back 150 years becomes so great that he forgets the present and finds himself living in the eighteenth century.

PRINCESS THEATRE.

The current programme at the Princess Theatre is headed by "Dinner at Eight." The story of the film is one of everyday life, and concerns itself with the incidents that occur in the lives of several people who are'invited to the dinner given by Billie Burke, the tragedy, scandal or comedy that has entered their lives. Jean Harlow plays the gold-digging wife of Wallace Beery.

Out of the yellowing pages of metropolitan newspapers a dramatic story has been rescued for the screen that promises to be one of the fastest, exciting, and thrill-crowded chronicles of modern metropolitan life' transcribed into a motion picture. The picture is "The Women in His Life," which comes to the Princess Theatre on Friday. It is a story of sensational trials, of life behind the scenes of courtrooms and lawyers' offices, of a spectacular barrister who always wins the cases for his clients, be they guilty or innocent, but who lets a woman of his past wreck his future. Otto Krugev is the principal actor. The main supporting subject is the comedy "Love Birds," featuring Slim Sumnierville and /asu Pitts.

CONCERT*'AT SEATOUN

A bright and varied programme was presented by the Seatoun Musical Society, under the musical directorship of Mr. D. Jfeill Keith, in the Presbyterian Hall last night m aid of the local unemployment funds. A pleasing assortment of songs was rendered by the choir. As a tribute to the memory of the late Sir Edward Ligar, two of his compositions, "As Torrents in Summer" and "The Snow," were included. The two final numbers, "The Radiant Morn" and "Jerusalem," were accompanied on the organ by Mr. B. Herapath. The choir opened with compositions by Coleridge Taylor, and these were followed by "To a Rose," sung by Miss Gilpin, who was recalled. Mr. Ray Ivemp sang the rollicking ballad, "King Charles," and as encores sang two further numbers, including "Sea Fever." Further songs by the choir'followed", and'then a violin number, "Souvenir," was played by Mr. J. Emison Gilby. Mrs. Kemp gave an outstanding i-endering, "Trees," by Rasbach. "The Voyager's," by Sanderson, was sung most expressively by Mr. and Mrs. Kemp, and Miss Gilpin gave "Morning Light" and "Flower Maiden." The numbers were very well chosen, and the items were presented without delay, reflecting credit on those responsible for a most enjoyable evening's entertainment.

NEW ROYAL ROLLER RINK,

Special attractions are advertised for the extended session at the New Royal Roller Rink, Vivian Street, this evening. The celebrated saxophonist Ivan Royston is appearing with the Royal Skating Orchestra, who have become widely known since their first successful engagement. Gliding is a special feature on the large floor at this rink, which was recently completely ro modelled. The liockey-on-skates match this evening will be between Tigers and Swifts,