ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1936, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. Sir Guy Standing, veteran English actor, follows his role in “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” with a different type of portrayal in “Car 99,” coming to-night to the Opera. House. Standing’s film roles keephim So busy he has ; no time for Hollywood social life. Standing was knighted for his services in the English Navy during the war.' in “Car 99,” based on;-the private 1 files : of one of the most’rifficient ■police organisations in A'Anferica, Standing plays the leader of a gang of bank bandits. Just when ‘he see-ms to have outwitted the entire .police-de-partment/ he is defeated by 'a young member of the force and his loyal sweetheart. Fred Mac Murray and Ann Sheridan are featured with .Standing.

There are excellent shorts, including Melody Magic, Sporting Sounds, •Betty Boop Cartoon, Comedy, Shorty on tli,e Farm. “VAGABOND LADY.” “Raw Steak”—that’s the way Robert Young and Reginald Denny described their faces when they finished a certain scene in ‘‘Vagabond Lady,” the feature comedy opening Friday and Saturday at the Opera House. The two had been forced to shave their faces seven times in order to get one particular scene perfect in every detail. . Excellent shorts include a Pete Smith Oddity, Football Work, a Fitzpatrick coloured traveltalk, “Colourful Guatemala.”

REGENT THEATRE. Gordon Harker, the great British comedian, has possibly the finest role of his career in “The Lad,” to be shown at the Regent Theatre to-night. He is just his inimitable self all the time —yet he is two separate and distinct persons! First, he is seen as the “old lag,” just out of gaol. Then he is mistaken for a private detective in a beautiful country mansion,, and we see the second Gordon. The “reianed” Gordon is a connoisseur of. the arts, with a taste for vases of the. Ming variety; also a traveller of experience with a vast knowledge of China and the Chinese. But admirers can rest assured that, whether Cockney or Mayfair man-about-town, one : factor always remains constant with Gordon Harker in “The Lad”—his ability to cause continuous laughter.

“10 DOLLAR RAISE.” “10 Dollar Raise,” the new comedydrama which opens to-night at the Regent Theatre, has a history behind it. Reviewers are convinced that Peter B. Kyne was thinking of Edward Everett Horton when he wrote. “10 Dollar Raise.” Co-featured with Horton is Karen Morley. The story concerns a timid bookkeeper suddenly falling in love with a new stenographer, and forced to balance thei problem of a static paycheck and an; ecstatic romance. From a prince of a fellow, his boss turns into a tyrant. The steno., patient and understanding, tries to cure her sweetheart of inferiority, and of his fear of the boss. Not until her man is swindled' good and proper, and turns his humiliation at the hands of a sharper into profit for himself, does the worm turn, and the erstwhile unassuming office slave changes into commanding personality. BRYANT’S BELLRINGERS. Bryant’s Bellringers and Hypnotists, who have appeared with overwhelming success on the West Coast open their Greymouth season of two nights it the Town Hall to-night. Besides he musical portion of the programme,

hypnotism which is always interesting and amusing is featured. The supporting artists include Miss Rhoda Rainton who possesses a genuine musical baritone voice. As variety is the keynote of the company’s programme, theatregoers attending tonight’s perfortnance cap be assured I af a good night’s entertainment. I