CURRENT ENTERTAINMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 14

CURRENT ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE,

•'Green Light" will be shown finally tonight at the Regent Theatre. "Maid of Salem," featuring Claudette Colbert and Fred Mac Murray, opens at the Regent Theatre tomorrow. MAJESTIC THEATRE. All the glamour and romance of the mid-nineteenth century live again in "Camille," now showing at the MajesticTheatre. On the screen, Alexandra Dumas's classic story of the fate of Marguerite Gautier, favourite of Paris in the hour of her triumph, loses nothing. Greta Garbo, in the role of the . frail beauty, achieves a superlative of acting which she has never before reached. As Armand Duval, the young and inexperienced gentleman who, new to the high life of Paris and not especially interested in it, wins the sought-after beauty in a pure love which she has never before experienced, Robert Taylor also rises to neSv heights as an actor of achievement. The rest of the programme is excellent indeed, for it includes pictures of the Coronation and the Spithead review, newsreels, and an excel-lently-done musical feature burlesquing ancient Roman times. ST. JAMES THEATRE. "When You're in Love" concludes tonight at the St. James Theatre. "Under Cover of Night" opens at the St. James Theatre tomorrow. NEW OPERA HOUSE. Few places are left from which criminals cannot be extricated—and theses are overrun with men wanted for every crime from embezzlement lo murder, "Men in Exile" which is screening finally tonight at the New Opera House, is laid in one of these ports in the Caribbean Sea. Dick Purcell plays an innocent murder suspect who flees to Caribo. Criminals who have sought refuge here try to draw him into their net. He meets June Travis, daughter of a hotelkeeper, and their love story is interwoven with the perils in which they find themselves. "Along Came Love," a gay comedy of young love, is the second feature. It is the story of a romantic shopgin who meets her ideal and contr.ves to make him fall in love and propose to her despite the fact that he has other things in his mind. Irene Hervey and Charles Starrett play the leads PARAMOUNT THEATRE. "Polo Joe" and "Expert's Opinion" are showing finally tonight at the Paramount Theatre. "Love From a Stranger," starring Ann Harding, and "Let's Make a Million," with Edward Everett Horton, will be new features tomorrow. KING'S THEATRE. "Park Avenue Logger" and "We Who Are About to Die" % conclude tonight at the King's Theatre. A beautiful girl from "outside" pits her love against the pitiless code of the wild in Jack London's "White Fang," at)arryl F. Zanuck Twentieth Century production opening tomorrow at the King's Theatre with Michael Whalen and Jean Muir in the leading roles. Miss Muir is seen as the courageous heroine who dares all the perils of the north-country to help the man she loves. Michael Whalen has the leading role, with the cast also including Slim Summerville, Charles Winninger, John Carradine, Jane Darwell, and Thomas Beck. "White Fang" is a sequel to London's "Call of the Wild." Also showing will be the Twentieth Century-Fox musical film, "Pigskin Parade," which deals with the lighter side of American football. The picture features Stuart Erwin, Johnny Downs, Arline Judge, Betty Grable, Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley, the Yacht Club' Boys, Dixie Dunbar, Anthony Martin, and Judy Garland. ; NEW PRINCESS THEATRE. Edward Arnold in "Come and Get It" and Cecil Kellaway in "It Isn't Done' will be seen finally tonight at the New Princess Theatre. Set in the colourful background of New Orleans in the gay 70's, "Rainbow on the River," Bobby Breen's new singing vehicle for Radio Pictures, comes to the New Princess Theatre tomorrow as a lavish musical drama, boasting a strong plot, a fine oast, elaborate settings, and a group of songs by ths talented nine-year-old star: May Robson heads the supporting cast, while Charles Butterworth, Louise Beaver, and Alan Mowbray essay important roles. The associate attraction is "The Students' Romance," introducing lovely, vivacious Grete Natzler, idol of the Continent, in the most beautiful and spectacular musical romance of the year. Patric Knowles and Carol Goodner head the supporting cast. OUR THEATRE, NEWTOWN. One of the most-entertaining productions in months, which features drama, music, and comedy, and reveals the inside working of a radio broadcasting studio, is promised in Universal'? "Lots of Fun," which is showing tonight at Our Theatre at reduced prices. A record cast is headed by Edmund Lowe arid Gloria Stuart. Wholesome, extremely funny, and punctuated with some of the most humanly dramatic moments seen on the screen in a long time is "The Human Side," the associate feature. Adolphe Menjou and Doris Kenyon are seen in the principal roles. ■EMPIRE THEATRE, ISLAND BAY. "Devil Doll," the main feature at the Empire Theatre, starring Lionel Barryrnpre, concerns a Devil's Island prisoner, wrongly accused, who escapes arid returns to Paris armed with the weird secret of a mad scientist, which he uses to revenge those who wronged him and clears his name, in a bizarre mystery plot. A thrill-crammed story of an ace postal inspector's conflict with a desperate gang of mail bandits, "Wanted, Jane Turner," the other feature, stars Lee Tracy and Gloria Stuart. REGAL THEATRE, KARORI. "Theodora Goes Wild," the Columbia production; which brings Irene Dunne to the screen.as a scintillating comedienne, is -showing at the Regal Theatre. Miss Dunne proves to be ideal in the title role in "Theodora Goes Wild," a sophisticated comedy which deals with the exploits of a small-town girl who sets out to get her man. Melvyn Douglas plays opposite Miss Dunne, with Rosalind Keith, Leona Maricle, Henry Kolker, Thomas Mitchell, Elisabeth Risdon, Robert Greig, Spring Byington, Mary MacLaren, Thurston Hall, Margaret McWade, and Sarah Edwards making up a strong supporting cast. GRAND THEATRE, PETONE. Glamorous and beautiful Margot Rhys is the star of Charles Chauvel's production, "Uncivilised," which is screening at the Grand Theatre. Wonderful scenic shots are seen, dark secrets unearthed, and unusual flashes of native life in Central Australia are shown for the first time on the screen in this noteworthy drama. The short subjects are varied and interesting, STATE THEATRE, PETONE. "Escapade," now showing at the State Theatre, Petone, is a brilliant comedy romance with William Powell as its hero and Luise Rainer, the brilliant Viennese stage star, as his leading lady. Frank Morgan, Virginia Bruce, Reginald Owen, Mady Christians, Laura Hope Crews, and Henry Travers are others of note in the cast.. PALACE THEATRE, PETONE. Two excellent attractions are screening at the Palace Theatre tonight, "Girl Overboard," photographed against the exciting background of a fire' disaster on the high seas, is the dramatic story of a girl falsely accused of murder. Gloria Stuart and Walter Pidgeon have the starring roles. "King of the Castle" is a comedy-drama, with June Clyde, Billy Milton, and Claude Dampier. The supporting programme ia excellent.

CITY AND SUBURBAN THEATRES

PLAZA THEATRE,

Dazzling and gay in its spectacle, | "Girl in a Million," which is in its: fourth week at. the Plaza Theatre, I is dominated throughout by j, the radiant personality of Sonja Henie, who makes a brilliant entry into stardom. The film provides a colourful background for the rapid and delightful skating evolutions of tin's ice champion, who performs with a marvellous ease and grace. The story opens in the beauty of Switzerland, where an innkeeper, himself an ex-champion skater, has been ambitiously training his daughter for twelve years to win the skating championship at the Olympic Games. Complications arise with the advent of a travelling American vaudeville troupe and a newspaper reporter, and there is a tine climax winch is not lacking in romance. Don Ameche, Jean- Hersholt, and Adolphe Menjou carry their parts well. The supporting programme includes some vivid newsreels of the Hindenburg crash and scenes of the Coronation. DE LUXE THEATRE. "California Straight Ahead," the story of a transport driver who challenges the State Railways to a 2000-mile race over snowbound country, and "She s Dangerous," a fast-moving Secret Service melodrama starring Tala Birrell, Cesar Romero, and Walter Pidgeon, conclude tonight at the De Luxe Theatre. "Man of the People" and "We Have Our Moments" will be the new features tomorrow. STATE THEATRE. "Stowaway" is screening finally tonight at the State Theatre. "On the Avenue" will open a season at the State Theatre tomorrow. RIVOLI THEATRE. A thoroughly delightful and hilarious comedy of married life, Paramount's "Wives Never Know." is showing at the Rivoli Theatre, with that charming and inimitable screen husband and wife, Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland. "Wives Never Know is a story of a happily-wedded pair whose romance goes on the rocks when they take the advice of suave Adolphe Menjou, cast as a novelist who believes himself too wise to get married but is free enough with his wild-eyed theories on what constitutes happiness in marriage. Henry Fonda is the leading character of Paramount's "Spendthrift," which will also be shown. Fonda is a young millionaire gone broke in "Spendthrift." Owner of a string of polo and race horses, he is believed by his society neighbours to have 23,000,000 dollars. Actually, lie is without cash. The story of how he finds love makes up the romantic plot. An all-star cast of character players keeps the yarn filled with movement and humour. REX THEATRE. Paramount's thrilling murder-mys-tery, "Private Scandal," is screening at the Rex Theatre. Zasu Pitts and Ned Sparks, two of the screen's most popular "sad-faced" comedians, furnish the hilarity; Phillips Holmes and Mary Brian, the romantic interest, while Lew Cody, as an embezzling financier at the beginning of the picture, is the "victim." Randolph Scott, Tom Keene, Kathleen Burke, Noah Beery, Harry Carey and Kent Taylor play the leading roles in the other feature. "Sunset Pass," which follows closely the original story by Zanc Grey. It is replete with thrilling incidents—a raging prairie fire, a mad stampede of an enormous herd of cattle, and plenty of hard riding and breathless gun-fighting. SHORTT'S THEATRE. "Fatal Lady" and" "Men Without Names" conclude tonight at Shortt's Theatre. Starring an exciting love team, handsome Robert Taylor and lovely Loretta Young, "Private Number," a Fox picture, which opens tomorrow at Shortt's Theatre, is acclaimed as one of the year's outstanding romantic hits. Taylor's debonair manner and youthful banter complement Miss Young's beauty and wide-eyed appeal perfectly. And, added to the thrilling love story, are suspense, drama, and comedy by Patsy Kelly, Basil Rathbone, and Marjorie Gateson. "Come Out of the Pantry," the other feature, is rich comedy, with Jack Buchanan in the role of a penniless peer who, finding himself stranded in New York, is obliged to take a job as a footman in a Fifth Avenue household. There he falls in love with his employer's pretty niece (Fay Wray) and after sundry adventures persuades her to share his title. KOXY THEATRE. "Land ■ Beyond the Law" and "Millions" conclude tonight at the Roxy Theatre. "Calling the Tune," coming to the Roxy Theatre tomorrow, stars Clifford Evans, Sally Grey, Sam Livesey, and Adele Dixon, the story being concerned with the development of the gramophone record industry. Many celebrities are introduced in the course of the story, including Sir Henry Wood and the Queen's Hall Orchestra, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, George Robey, the English Singers' Quartet, Charles Penrose, and the Philharmonic String Quartet. An interesting highlight m the film is the introduction of the vision record, which is played in the usual way, but which throws an image of the personality recording on to a small screen at the back of the gramophone. The supporting feature, "Revenge Rider," is a thrilling outdoor romance, starring Tim McCoy. KILBIKNIE KlNSMA"Lloyd's of London," the brilliant Twentieth Cenury-Fox hit, is screening at the Kilbirnie Theatre. Ablaze with action, vivid with pageantry and vital with drama, this story of a love that changed the destiny of an empire unites in swiftlymoving kaleidoscope the thrillig account of the founding of England's sea power, and the establishment of the world's most exciting and extraordinary institution. Freddie Bartholomew and Madeleine Carroll are starred in the exceptional east, which features Sir Guy Standing, Tyrone Power, C. Aubrey Smith, and Virginia Field. "The Mine With the Iron Door," from one of the most popular of all Harold Bell Wright's popular novels, will also be shown, with Richard Arlen in the stellar role. CAPITOL THEATRE, MTRAMAR. Unusual for its love story and its dramatic suspense, and packing- a lastminute punch that stamps it one of the screen's current triumphs, "The Crime of Dr. Forbes" is showing at the Capitol Theatre, with a noteworthy cast, including Gloria Stuart, Robert Kent, Henry Armetta, J. Edward Bromberg, Sara Haden, and Alan Dinehart. The daring theme is one thaf startles and surprises with its implications. The glorious musical film "New Moon," featuring Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett. is the associate feature. SEASIDE THEATRE, LYALL BAY. Undoubtedly one of the most popular of all musicals yet to reach the screen i.- "Show Boat." The glorious musical romance with Irene Dunne, Alan Jones, Paul Robison, and a huge cast of supporting players. The supporting feature is "Off to the Races," 1 the latest Jones Family comedy. RAIL-CAR SERVICES. The Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of alterations and additions to the Sunday rail-car services on the Wairarapa line, com- . mencing on Sunday, June 20. I ISABEL, REID LECTURES. i Isabel Reid, formerly of "Sunways." ! Tring, Herts, England, will lecture in 1 the Conference Hall, Dominion Farm- ' ers' Institute, on "Some Social As- : pects of a Changed Regime." Admis- ; sion is free. Questions relating to any ; aspect of health, especially in children, will be welcomed.

TIVOLI THEATRE. "Dodsworth" and "Florida Special" conclude tonight at the Tivoli Theatre. Samuel Goldwyn's production of Edna Ferber's greatest novel. "Come and Get It," which brings Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea. and Frances Farmer to the Tivoli Theatre tomorrow, also feature;; Mady Christians, versatile Viennese actress, Walter Brennan, the "Old Atrocity" of "Barbary Coast," Mary Nash, famous stage ista'r, lovely Andrea Leeds, dark-eyed Goldwyn "find," and Frank Shields, handsome tennis star. The colourful story of the great lumber camps of the north woods casts Edward Arnold in his greatest role as the great lumber baron who gives up love to win power, but in later years finds his victory an empty one when he falls hopelessly in |love with the daughter of the woman Ihe once cared for. Robert Cummirigs and Eleanore Whitney dance and sing their way through one of the gayest musicals "of film history in -'Three Cheers for Love," the Paramount "swing opera," which will ulso- bo shown. A fast-moving, novelty-filled, plot is the background for the pair's romance. Grace Bradley. Billy Lee. Olympe Bradna, Roscoc Karns, Louis DaPron, and Veda Ann Borg are featured in the outstanding cast. The picture is the first to come from Hollywood in which "swing" is given full glorification. The new musical numbers presented are "Where Is My Heart?" "Long Ago and Far Away, and "The Swing Tap." TONIGHT'S BOXING. Tiger Parks, United States of America, will meet Neville Mudgway, Auckland, and Henry Dunn, Moera. will meet Stan Smith, Wellington, in the ten-round professional boxing contests at the Town Hall tonight. Each contestant is reported to be in the best condition after a painstaking preparation The Wellington association will consider matching the winner of the Parks-Mudgway contest with Herb Bishop, Australia. Dunn is clamouring for recognition as a serious contender for a championship bout, and the irrepressible Stan Smith holds the belief that the man who beats him will be a worthy title-holder. The shorter distances will tend towards speedy action, and if both contests go the full distance, 20 rounds of interesting boxmg should be seen. The amateur preliminaries will be: J. Parker (Newtown) v. T. Hansen (Hedberg's); J. Martin (Moera) v. H. Calder (Tracy's); J. Kellehan (Newtown) v. J. Scott (Moera); L. Edney (Moerat v. A. Giles (Cotterill's); J. Hansen (Hedbergs) v. J. Robertson (Newtown). MONDAY'S WRESTLING. The wrestling match which is to take place at the Wellington Town Hall on Monday night is one of exceptional appeal. "Lofty" Blomfield, the New Zealand champion, will meet Jack Forsgren, champion of Canada, and the winner will qualify for a match agamst Earl McCready, the British Empire champion, who will soon visit Australia and New Zealand, and whose arrival will raise the question of matches lor the British Empire title. This honour, of which McCready is the accredited holder, is one that is eagerly sought by the Canadian's rivals, and two <vf the leading contenders are undoubtedly Forsgren and Blomfield. Both ot them have gone close to winning it in the past, and the improvement in their form this season suggests that they will press McCready harder than hitherto. The question is, which of them will have the first opportunity? Mondays bout will decide, and the popularity o£ both contestants will ensure a capacity crowd being on hand to see them fight the matter out. There will be amateur preliminaries. SATURDAY'S WRESTLING. Unusual interest is being taken in the first match to be staged by the Wellington branch, of the Wrestling and Athletic Club (Inc.), which is to be held in the Town Hall on Saturday night. There are to be three bouts and "all are between professionals. This will be a change from the usual run. of wrestling matches. A large number of promising erstwhile amateur local boys will now get their chance under the new control. &ya. Lack and Charlie Lowe are well known and they will now wrestle free of amateur ring restrictions. Bartlett will meet the South African professional. Venter. The big match will provide Wellingtonians with a chance to see Steve Savage and Tony Feilce for the first time. An all-professional night of this kind should be something to look forward to. Booking is at the D.I.C. and Claridge's at the usual prices, with ladies at 2s 6d.