ENTERTAINMENTS

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2401, 10 April 1931, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

CLIVE BROOK AND EVELYN BRENT AT TIVOLI A girl ran never tell these days with whom she is falling in love, ilmagme Evelyn Brent's surprise, as the heroine, when she discovers the true identity of the suave Englishman hero, Clive Brook, in Paramount’s “Slightly Scarlet” at the Tivoli to-night. And her surprise isn’t one-tenrh of what yours will be when you see this thrilling romance. Evelyn Brent was never more alluringly attractive, mor egenerouslv than she is in “Slighty Scarlet.” Nor was the handsome Clive Brook ever more charmingly whimsical, even in “Charming Sinners,” than in this strange melodrama of another rharrnnig sinner who looks fc*r high ideal and high station in her men friends and falls in love with—what ? Thai’s one of the big surprises in “Slighty Scarlet.” The story is sot in a smartsociety melee, with sumptuous scenes and delightful people. Yet it is as tensely dramatic as anything these two photoplayer = have ever done. It is an action romance, highly spiced with adventure. You will : remember the detective in “The Canary Murder Case” and “The Greene Murder Case.” Eugene Pallette. lie furnishes some delicious comedy in “Slighty Scarlet” as the .foil between the charmer and her deluder. Then Paul Lukas is the menace, while 11 en r\ Wadsworth and Morgan Farley have excellent supporting roles. “Slighty Scarlet” is' entertainment de luxe, an all walking delight, one of the gems of the season’s screen entertainment \ matinee to-morrov. VICTOR McLAGLEN AT THE MAJESTIC TO-NIGHT For thee very last screening see action and excitement abound in Victor McLaglenVs new vehicle for Fox Movietone, ‘‘A Devil With Women,” at the Majestic Theatre 10-night. It introduces McLaglen as a reckless, hard-bitten soldier of fortune in the service of the Federal army of a little republic along the Caribbean. Tlis rivalry with a young tourist over the smiles of various senoritas and Anally for the one girl, with a thrilling revolution as the background, is the motif of the picture, but incidents and accidents occur with thrilling frequency throughout the swift- action of the film. Beginning with an encounter with the youngster over the matter of a dark-eyed lieartbreaker and some smuggled machine guns, : events happen fast and furious. The youngster take- the girl away from McLaglen, and when the latter is ordered inland to capture a notorious bandit he finds the couple on the same train. The vouih repeats his taciics in a cafe at the end of the line,-but the senorita, who is the bandit’s sweetheart, with' instructions to delay the soldier, bestows her smiles on the military man until the revolutionary leader can arrive. Both McLaglen ami the . youngster find themselves in gaol, bufc when the latter discovers his rival is to he shot the next day the competition changes to co-opera-lion and the two escape. “A Devil With Women” one of the most entertainng and worth-while pictures of the reason. Mona Maris, Humphrey Bogart and I.uana Alcaniz head the supporting cast, with Michael Vavitch, Mrs Jiminez, Mona John St. Polls and other celebrities. The featurettes include a Alack Sen nett- comedy (“Talkies”), a Fox comedy (“Television”), two Fox News Gazettes and a Pathe Afaga zine. To-morrow; “Men of the North.” Reserves at Carthew’s.