KILBIRNIE WRESTLING CLUB.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 5

KILBIRNIE WRESTLING CLUB.

The Kilbirnie Wrestling Club will hold an indoor carnival at the Rex Hall, Kilbirnie Crescent, commencing tomorrow at .7 p.m. It will continue on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. There will be side-shows, stalls, a jumble stall, and 6d mystery parcels. Entertainment and wrestling and other forms of amusement will be given each evening. The proceeds are for the funds of the club's gymnasium.

PLAZA THEATRE. A rollicking satirical skit on the two great national emotions of modern times, sport and politics, staggers its hilarious way across the screen in "Hold That Co-ed" at the Plaza Theatre. John Barrymore enters as the I politician who will promise anything to get votes, but he finds that there is more in life than- that, and that is sport. He threatens to bring in legislation banishing football, which, he says, with its equipment, stadiums, and campuses, is making educaton far too expensive for the taxpayers. Well and good but when his decision threatens the job of a football coach the State College students mob his residence, and succeed in giving him the right idea, that the way to win his election is to vote stupendous sums for stadiums, etc., which he does. For a while he is the hero of the students. When his rival uses the same sort of ammunition the election becomes a sport contest.

RADIO PROGRAMMES Today's radio programmes will be! found on page 16. I

REGENT THEATRE.

New Type of Comedy.

A new standard for tangled domestic situations is reached in Paramount's new comedy, "Say It In French," which opens on Thursday at the Regent Theatre. It is a story of complications that arise when a young American society lad returns from abroad with a French. bride only to learn that he must . shield his marriage from the world and announces his engagement to a New York heiress in order to prevent his father's shipping from going on the rocks. This unusual situation reaches the hilarious when the bride takes a job as maid with her husband's family in order to be near him until they iron out their difficulties. One mad incident follows another as the young man announces his engagement to stave off a panic, while his wife devotes her efforts to nipping the family scandal in the bud. Playing together for the first.time, two of Paramount's top stars, Ray Milland and Olympe Bradna, are seen as the young husband and wife. The play upon which the film is based was written by Jacques Deval, famed French playwright and author of "Tovarich." One of Broadway's most famous actors of a generation ago plays the eccentric shipping magnate in the film. He is William Collier, sen., whose name was once as familiar to theatregoers as those of Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, or Ronald Colman are today. Born in New York, Collier ran away at the age of eleven to join a travelling company of the operetta, "Pinafore," and has been connected with the theatre ever since. He joined Weber and Fields in the days when that company boasted such famous names as Lillian Russell, May Irwin, and David Warfield. In the first days of talkies he came to Hollywood, where he appeared in such hits as: "The Bride Comes Home," "Give Us This Night," and "Valiant is the Word for Carrie."

PLAZA THEATRE

Shaw's "Pygmalion."

Concerning "Pygmalion," which will begin at the Plaza Theatre on Friday, the "Auckland Star" writes:—"The screen adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's most brilliant comedy 'Pymgalion,' opened its Auckland season to capacity houses yesterday at the Civic Theatre, when it was acclaijned as one of the most brilliant achievements of the British Film industry, and one that equals the best that Hollywood has offered. This Gaumont production can be recommended without any reservations. This adaptation of the play has lpst nothing in the translation, and the reflection of its sparkling wit, its pathos, its drama, and its comedy, presented by a superb cast, calls forth admiration. The success that must attend this picture will surely give further encouragement to the British film industry in its efforts to produce pictures that, in the main, will hold their own with the best of American work. The tale of Eliza Doolittle and Professor Higgins is a gem of comedy. In this is its surface appeal. But Shaw is more than a jester, and in this play is to be found his mocking scorn of the structure of society, wittily and vivaciously gilding a biting sermon on shallow conventions. There is indeed an embarrassment of riches. So much is there to be enjoyed that the picture is of the kind that can be appreciated la second time."