CURRENT ENTERTAINMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 6

CURRENT ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. .' "Gold Diggers of 1937" concludes tonight at the Regent Theatre. "College Holiday" opens at the Regent Theatre tomorrow. MAJESTIC- THEATRE. ] . "Born to Dance" will be shown fin- j ally tonight at the Majestic Theatre. "Romeo and Juliet" opens tomorrow at tha Majestic Theatre. ST. JAMES .THEATRE. "Theodora Goes Wild'1 concludes tonight at the St. James Theatre. "Sinner Take All," which comes to the St. James Theatre tomorrow, is a happy combination of mystery, romance, and humour in unusual settings, produced .in the manner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with lavish ! attention to detail. The scenes range i from the luxury of Park Avenue penthouses to the squalor of lower .East Side tenements, nor.is the Broadway night club sector omitted. Others reveal the roaring and ordered confusion of a metropolitan newspaper at press time, with a big story breaking. Bruce Cabot and Margaret Lindsay play the romantic leads with artistry, and Joseph Calleia offers another of .his individual "menace" portrayals. The story deals with a millionaire newspaper publisher who receives a threatening message pledging death. to him and his family. Before he can move to protect: himself he and two sons are. murdered. A former reporter who has become a lawyer returns to his old craft and solves the mystery in a series. of exciting adventures. He also saves the life of the publisher's lovely daughter, and marries her. ... . .'. PARAMOUNT THEATRE. "Escapade" concludes tonight at the Paramount-. Theatre.. '..,-- "Theodora Goes Wild" commences a season at; the Paramount Theatre1 tomorrow. ■■' :■■'■';■■ . ' •''.■.■■"'. '.-.. ■:' '■ .'":.'. ;1--. .■:•■,■' ''■■■ .KING'S' THEATRE. '-,'. ': • ■... "Easy'to.. Take" and "Laughing' at Trouble", screen finally.tonight at the King's Theatre; '-.'.', . '•'.'■ ..' .: ■ The beautiful Santa Anita track, mecca of thousands of American horseracing .-fan's during ;the winter season, is the .locale1 of the facing, scenes in RKO Radio's stirring Turf drama, "Racing Lady," with Ann Dvorak, Harry Carey, and Smith Ballew, which comes to the King's Theatre tomorrow. The story' concerns a young and wealthy automobile manufacturer, who is the last word in proficiency. as. a business man, but who has to take lessons in sportsmanship from .his girl horse trainer, whom he. has learned to love. Marking the debut of a new romantic team on the screen,1 "The Big Game," RKO Radio's football comedy-drama, which will also, be shown, has Philip Huston'arid June ' Travis co-featured with such players as James Gleason, Bruce Cabot, and Andy Devine. A noted young Broadway star, Huston is hailed in- Hollywood as one of the screen's most promising "finds." June Travis will' be) remembered for her outstanding peijformahce in. "Earthworm Tractors"- and "Stranded." "' SHORTT'S THEATER. "King of the Damned" and "Whispering Smith Speaks" conclude tonight at Shortt's Theatre^ "One More River,'-adapted by R. C. Sheriff ■; from .John Galsworthy's last novel, comes to. .Shortt's".Theatre tomorrow.- ;-. It is described as a powerfully tense; drama: with ;the?cast; supporting. 'Diana . Wynyard -,' including Frank Law ton, Mrs. PatricklGampbell, Colin dive,1 Reginald :- DerinyC Jane Wyatt, Liorielv Atwill, and Alan Mowbray. "Night Life; of "the GodsV which will also be shown, 4s, from the delightfully crazy novel-1; by '■'.'-. Thorh'e Smith which tells of an inventor who discovered how to bring statues to life and transformed the statues of the old gods of Greece; and Rome into flesh and blood-and gave them a taste of our modern hectic existence. Alan Mowbray and Florine McKinney head the cast. . .^PRINCESS THEATRE... ' : "Dishonour ■ Bright" and "The ' Big Broadcast' of 1937" will be finally screened tonight at the Princess Theatre. ......■'.,■,■ ■ ■ Two entertaining pictures will commence screening tomorrow at the Princess Theatre.. Ninix Martini, famous singing star 6i radio, opera,-and films, appears in PickfordrLasky's sparkling romance, "The Gay-Desper-ado,", the principal" attraction. Ida. Lupirio and Leo; Carrillo are featured in support of the handsome tenor. The picture completely discards the conventional plot formula for films star- . ring famous sjrigers .and tells a fast- • moving romantic story., Glorious song numbers.^uhg. as only Richard Tauber can sing them: comedy . put, over as only Jimmy'(Schnozzle) Durante can put it over; and'an enchanting love story set to Oscar Strauss's most beautiful melodies are the • highlights of "Land Without Music," the associate picture. • Diana . Napier, June Clyde, and Derrick de Marney^ head a -strong supporting-cast: The short subjects include, an;-item, of the "March of Time" series. '■ ■--..■•' - '\ KILBIRNIE KINSMA.';',. Tom Walls, Ralph-Lynn, and Robertson Hare are at their brightest and best, in '.'Foreign Affaires," which shows at the Kilbirnie Kinema tonight, The picture is so incredibly chaotic, so unbelievably foolish.- that it - draws laughter from the most; depressed hearts. The second- attraction, "The Return of .Sophie'Lang," is a tale of the reformation of a notorious jewel thief who turns the tables.on a former associate when. she is accused of stealing a famous diamond. Gertrude Michael, as Sophie, gives a splendid characterisation, and Sir Guy Standing, as her old associate, impresses as the suave polished crook. EMPIRE THEATRE, ISLAND BAY. Laughter and love ripple and sparkle all through "Two in a Crowd," the lively Universal offering which opens at the Empire Theatre tonight. Joan Bennett and Joel McCrea are ■ ideally starred as a mirth-provoking pair of sweethearts in this rollicking screen drama. "Educating Father," the associate feature, tells a happy, hilarious story' of how the up-and-coming youngsters of the Jones family bring dad up to date. Jed Prouty plays the title role of "Dad" Jones. STATE THEATRE, PETONE. "Beloved Enemy," a vivid drama of love under fire, is being shown at the State Theatre, Petone. The story casts Brian Aherne and Merle Oberon as a man"'. and - woman from two warring worlds who fall madly in love,' and follows their romance, carried on under fire, with both risking their lives to snatch a few hours together. Against shifting backgrounds the story proceeds to a thrilling climax. \ GRAND THEATRE, PETONE. The main picture at the Grand Theatre, "Heart of the West," was adapted from Clarence' Mulford's "Mesquite, Tumbleweed," a thrilling story of the open range, and has William Boyd and Jimmy Ellison in the leads. Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland are together again in their latest uproarious^farce, "Early to Bed," which is also on the bill. PALACE THEATRE, PETONE. A fun-filled yarn of the trials and tribulations of a young couple who marry despite family enmities is told in Paramount's comedy picture, "Three Married Men," now showing at the Palace Theatre.. Mary;.. Brian. Lynne Overman, William Frawley, and Roscoe Karns have the main "roles. The second feature is the dramatic "Hollywood Boulevard." ,'i." '.:. '■» •-;'.!..'

CITY AND SUBURBAN THEATRES

PLAZA THEATRE. "Lloyd's of London," concludes tonight at the Plaza Theatre. How a flagrant miscarriage of justice sends a man to the electric chair and his son half-way around the world seeking evidence to vindicate the father's name, is the dramatic theme of "Winterset," the screen version of Maxwell Anderson's gripping stage hit, coming to the Plaza.Theatre tomorrow, with Burgess Meredith, Margo and Eduardo Ciannelli, all of whom appeared in the footlight presentation. Complications intensify the drama and suspense when Meredith falls in love with Margo, and discovers that she is the sister of the man who holds the key to the crime but fears to confess because of ghsstly consequences he may have to suffer at the hands of Ciar.nelli, the vicious murderer. "Winterj set," produced by R.K.0.-Radio, -who ! also screened Maxwell Anderson's j ''Mary of Scotland," includes in the I supporting cast, such Hollywood favourites as John Carradine. Edward Ellis, Maurice Moscovitch. Paul Guilfoyle, and Helen Jerome Eddy. It was acclaimed by New York's leading dramatic critics as the foremost Broadway hit of last season. DE LUXE THEATRE. -. ■■' "Big Brown Eyes" and "Toll of the Road" will be screened finally tonight at the De Luxe Theatre. "Pennies From Heaven" and "Girl Overboard" commence at the Da Luxe Theatre, tomorrowSTATE THEATRE. Famous characters of the colonising days of America make their appearance in "The.Plainsman," an excellent film now showing at the State Theatre, and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. The picture. is no ordinary Western, it doe's not gain '. its appeal through the flaming of guns and the battles and massacres of warfare (although those have their proper place in the' film), but. rather through theskilful portrayal of the lives of the main characters,: Buffalo " Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane, the shiftless, but" lovable woman of the West. The unscrupulous methods of arms manufacturers,' who dispose of modern repeating rifles to tha Indians, and so stir up a mighty rebellion, against the invasion of the white man, are convincingly shown. Supports are of good quality, including several newsreels and a "Popeye" cartoon. „ . CONNORS AND PAUL. REVUE. George Wallace is corning back to Wellington, and those who derived so much amusement from his absurdities, gags, and quips when he appeared here a little time ago will be pleased to welcome him back and say "au revoir" before he sails from New Zealand for Hollywood. The comedian himself ;s brilliant, his. repertoire of gags snappy, his sallies witty, and his tap-dancing burlesque shows him a performer of many parts. Even without him the revue would appeal. There arc Queenic Paul and Mike Connors, artists of renown almost equal to that of the comedian, and the producers of the revue. A special attraction with the company this time is Mademoiselle ???. The-cur-tain was held many minutes during the ■Dunedin and Invercargill ■ seasons before she was finally allowed- to leave the stage. Such an attraction is she that it is more than likely she will be taken to Australia with the company at the conclusion of her tour. • The Wellington season 6f the company ■ will open at., the, New Opera House on Saturday. ; ■'; REX THEATRE. Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Monte Blue, and Raymond Hatton, head the cast of "Wagon Wheels," now screen-ing-atthe Rex Theatre. It is a-drama-tic ".'account of the hardships encoun-tered-by the hardy pioneers who took the first wagon trains to Oregon over an unblazed trail. Hatton plays the role,of an Indian fighting scout. In "She Loves a Uniform," the second attraction, Patricia Ellis, is featured with .Cesar Romero, Larry Crabbe, William Frawley, :Andy Devine, and Warren Hymer. The picture, adapted from a story by Damon Runyon, shows what happens when a group of Broadway gangsters become entangled with a discontented heiress., : . : ■ KOXY THEATRE; "Anthony Adverse" Will be shown finally tonight at the Roxy Theatre. "Fugitive in the Sky," Warner Bros.' baffling murder, mystery, opens at the Roxy Theatre tomorrow, with 'Jean Muir;and Warren Hull in,the leading roles. A murder is discovered by an air hostess, and thrilling-events lead up to a smashing climax, in which a newspaper reporter proves to be the hero. "Here Comes Carter!" the supporting feature, probes behind thescenes of both radio and .broadcasting stations and moving-picture ■ studios, with Ross Alexander, Glenda Farrell, and. Anne, Nagel in the featured roles, The picture is packed with, thrills and rollicking .humour '.from, start to finish. .OURTHEATRE",'"-NEWTOWX-Basil-Rathborie is featured with Pauline Lord, Louis Hay ward, Billie Burke, and others in "A Feather in Her Hat," the main attraction" showing at Our Theatre :at -reduced prices. Rathbone. is seen.as the cultured but drunken and down-and-out; English captain, who is taken in by Miss Lord, so .that he may impart to her lower-class son some of his gentlemanly • polish and tastes. The associate feature, "Unwelcome Stranger," presents the virile Jack Holt as a man who was tough, hard-boiled, scared of.nothing, until a stranger ruined his luck and shattered his romance. CAPITOL THEATRE, MIRAMAR. . "The Big Broadcast" and "Blackmailer" conclude tonightjat the Capitol Theatre. Inheriting a large newspaper may seem to be a great deal of good fortunei but it has its drawbacks, as is shown in "The Girl on the Front Page," which opens at the Capitol Theatre tomorrow. The editor is portrayed by. Edmund Lowe and the society heiress, is played by Gloria Stuart. The tempestuous emotions of the picturesque children of the mighty Mississippi are revealed in "Banjo oh My Knee." the second feature. Barbara Stanwyck aid Joel McCrea are co-starred, supported by Helen Westley, Buddy Ebsen, Walter Brennan, Walter Catlett, Anthony Martin, and Katherine de Mille. SEASIDE THEATRE, LYALL BAY. One of the most outstanding motion pictures of' the current season is the adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's popular novel "Dodsworth." Walter Huston and. Ruth Chatterton portraywith magnifi-cent-.sincerity the leading roles. Paul Lukas and Mary Astor head the supporting cast. "They Met in a Taxi," the supporting feature, is a', comedy--drama with Chester Morris and Fay Wray in the leads, WRESTLING ON MONDAY. "Lofty" Blomfiekl, the New Zealandborn professional wrestling champion, and Hal Rumberg (U.S.A.), who promises this year to repeat his successes' of 1933, will meet in the bout which is to be staged at the Town Hall on Monday night by the Wellington Wrestling Association. Both are well over 6ft in height and weigh in the vicinity of.-17st, so that though both are of more than usual size, they will be meeting on even terms. " Also, bothmen favour aggressive tactics, and have a penchant for bringing their elbows into play when the opportunity offers. In addition, both men have a complete mastery over all the orthodox holds." An appearance-by Blomfield in the Wellington ring has been eagerly awaited ever since the season opened. Blomfield had a highly successful season last year, and. after hayine kept fit during the summer in Australia, he has started this year at the top of his form. Rumberg added another win to his account last night and is climbing rapidly to his former prominence. There will be amateur preliminaries. -

TIVOLI THEATRE. "It's Love Again" and "Straight from the Shoulder" conclude tonight at the Tivoli Theatre. "Cain and Mabel," a spectacular Cosmopolitan musical- production released by Warner Bros, and starring two of the screen's most brilliant celebrities. Marion Davies and Clark Gable, opens at the Tivoli Theatre tomorrow. The picture is filled with catchy musical airs and gigantic specialty numbers in which 160 beautiful chorus giris take part, in addition to its hilarious comedy, its glowing romance, and many thrills. The most pretentious of the production numbers, called "Thousand Love Songs," is heralded as one unsurpassed in magnitude and grandeur. "Flying Hostess," the associate feature, is an unusually wellwritten and well-directed screen play centring around the turbulent romance of a charming air hostess and an ace transport pilot. The glamour and the adventure of the huge airliners provide the background for the play, William Gargan, Judith Barrett, William Hall, Astrid Allwyn, Ella Logan, Andy Devine, and Addison Randall arc among the leading players. UIVOU THEATRE. "The Big Broadcast of 1937" and "Poppy" conclude tonight at the Rivoli Theatre. ' Lilting music, magnificent spectacles, rollicking comedy, romance, and thrills combine to form the rare entertainment found in the Cosmopolitan production released by Warner Bros., "Cain and Mabel." which comes to the Rivoli Theatre tomorrow. These ingredients, added to the fine performances of its two famous stars, Marion Davies and Clark Gable, and that of an exceptionally talented supporting cast, make this picture one of the outstanding screen productions of the year. One of the big features of the musical comedy is a sensational number called "Thousand Love Songs," which for sheer beauty, novelty, and magnitude of its scope, is truly remarkable. Mac West's latest Paramount comedy, "Go West Young Man." will be the second feature. Miss .West plays the part of a movie star "and Warren William is cast as her Press agent. One of the clauses in her contract forbids her to engage in romancing during the life of the contract. It is William's job to see to it that she lives up to this clause. He breaks up a . romance between Miss West and Lyle Talbot and another -with Randofph Scott, fi.ut he. is unable to break up the one in which he, finds himself. "CAPPICADE" ENDS. The-peak of its form as a 'musical revue was reached last night in the final performance of "Cappicadc at the New Opera .House. A crowded house was surprisingly quiet for In;.; last night of a university snow, and it was a tribute to the excellence cf the production that only streamers greeted the final curtain. Continual applause was evoked by items such as The Rush-In Ballet," in "Daze Bay Nights, and scenes in "The Book of Bob," and "The Plutocrats." At the conclusion, Mr. W. J. Mountjoy, jun., thanked the audience and presented the many helpers whose assistance made the show the success it was. REGAL THEATRE, KARORI. : "The -Man Who1 Could Work Miracles," which comes to the Regal Theatre' tonight, is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding comedies ever devised. It is based on H. G. Wells s most popular short story of the same title, and the screen play-was written by Wells himself. Roland Young takes the main role. The associate feature, presenting Edmund Lowe -and Constance Cummings, in a mystery drama "Seven Sinners." ......