EIGHT YEARS WORKLESS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 97, 22 October 1934, Page 3

EIGHT YEARS WORKLESS

A Pole has -walked through thirteen countries in eight years—looking- for work. Save for a short spell in the Lille mines, he was unemployed all the time. His Odyssey is a tragic comment on tho condition of the world. In pro-war days a youth -was often expected to travel and make good in tho pioneer spirit. Today, unless he has independent means, he is not welcome anywhere. He is merely a competitor in tho crowded labour markets. Tho enterprising Pole, says a London writer, might just as well have hoped to iind tho philosopher's stone. He has, however, found a wealth of human and scenic experience. There is surely a "beat seller" in him if some ingenious publisher can get Mm to> write.

RIVOLI THEATRE. A packed house at the midnight matinee which concluded in the small hours of this morning greeted "Whoopee," and tho associate programme with tremendous enthusiasm. Kddie Cantor and the gorgeous tioklwyn Girls appear in "Whoopee," the greatest musical comedy of all time. It lias gorgeous scenes of dazzling splendour, sidesplitting comedy, and gay and catchy song hits. "I Give My Love," the second main attraction, is by Vicki Baum, author, of "Grand Hotel." It is a powerful life drama, starring Wynne Gibson and I'aul Lucas, which provokes both laughter and tears teeming with drama and emotion yet not unmindful of the gayer side of life. "Hey, Hey, Westerner," nlso in colour, is the latest of the famous Warner Bros.' musical featurettes. "Kid Glove Kisses" is a roaring comedy featuring the ever-popular Slim Summerville, and "Soup for Nuts" is a musical radio show. These, in addition to the latest newsreel and

"Strange as it Seems," make up an exceptional holiday programme, and will be screened both tonight and tomorroiv evening. PLAZA THEATRE. Four young lovers in the "high, hard, truculent" city of New York provide the fitory of "Change of Heart," the picture in which Janet Gaynor and Charles !arrell are now appearing at the Plaza Theatre. Ginger Kogers and James Dunn complete the quartet. As fresh young things from college, the four are at first amazed and then disheartened by NewYork, before they settle do%vn in earnest. On the same programme is an uproarious Buster Kcaton comedy, a travelogue of Bangkok, and up-to-the-minute newsreels showing the burning ol the Morro Castle, the arrival of the Duke of Gloucester in Australia, the Endeavour and the Rainbow under full sail, and the havoc of the Wstirarapa hurricane. PRINCESS THEATRE. "The Thin Man" is now screening at the Princess Theatre. William Powell plays the leading role, with the lovely Myrna Loy as his leading lady. _ Xne Tliin Man" is probably the most gripping and exciting picture that has reached tile screen recently, yet it teems with sparkling humour aud smart dialogue throughout The story is Nick Charles's story of a retired detective who is deprived of a pleasure trip to New York on his wealthy wife's money by three baffling murders which he is called upon to so ye. The second attraction is the comedy Meet JMy sister."

SHORTT'S THEATRE,

"Let's Fall in Love," starring Edmund Lowe and Ann Sothern, is now being shown at Shortt's Theatre. Hailed as one of the season's most unique and tuneful musical offerings, it is entirely different from the rue of musicales which has Hooded screens recently, as its music is worked into the story in a logical and convincing manner. Even without, the music it would still be an outstanding dramatic production. The second picture, "The Cnmmp.l Code," is a superbly-acted, vivid romance of prison life—a gripping, poignant romance, with a plot packed with suspense.

BRITANNIA THEATRE.

The inner workings of a metropolitan police force in tracking criminals are dealt with in the murder mystery drama "From Headquarters," featuring George Brent and Margaret Lindsay at the Britannia Theatre. The story opens with the murder of a millionaire, and follows the search tor the slayer through scientific investigations at police headquarters from the finger printing of suspects to their inquisition in the darkened third degree room. The mystery is made doubly_ battling through a second murder which takes place under tho very noses of the police.