ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1938, Page 12

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. The thrilling story of nine lives in one intriguing exciting, adventure is the theme for “Sinners in Paradise, starring John Boles, Madge Evans, and Marion Martin and Bruce Cabot playing important roles, screening at the Opera House to-night and to-mor-row. After a reel or so of interesting action, the main drama, of “Sinners in Paradise” gets under way with the crash in mid-ocean of a giant transpacific air-liner. The passengers, a regular cross-section of society, including a beautiful millionairess, a dissatisfied wife, a heart-hungry mother, a gangster, a blonde gambling girl, a couple of munitions magnates and a puffed-up politician, drag themselves ashore on an apparently deserted island. Here they find a doctor, who has fled the law ahead of a murder charge in Shanghai. Then begins a drama of conflict that carries a killing suspense as it mounts to its climax, with lite after life being stripped bare of the coating of civilisation. There is plenty of physical conflict, with a shooting or two and a. sea fight, but the big punch is the character clash of man and woman. The world’s championship fight, Louis v. Schmeling, will be serened, showing the knock-out in.slow motion. REGENT THEATRE. Bing Crosby, as a fashionable physician posing as an officer of the law . to save his best friendt job, finds a policeman’s lot is not a happy one j when his first assignment is to serve as the personal bodyguard of Beatrice Lillie, in “Doctor Rhythm.” which * opens to-morrow at the Regent. Duty blends with love when Bea orders him to guard her pretty niece, Mary Carlisle, who wants to run away with a gangster. But music has its charms, and after a few innoculations of Dr. Bing’s crooning, Mary decides to engage her bodyguard on a life-time contract. “BORN RECKLESS.” The first picture in which Rochelle Hudson and Brian Donlevy have been ■ paired, “Born Reckless,” a thriller opening Thursday at the Regent presents a fiery romantic team whose love develops in the midst of an exciting taxicab racket warfare. “LIFE BEGINS IN COLLEGE.” The merrymaniacs, the Ritz Brothers, are starred for the first time in “Life Begins in College,” a smash musical hit featuring Joan Davis, Tony Martin and Gloria Stuart and a notable cast, which opens Thursday at the Regent. “THE BUCCANEER.” Romantic New Orleans during the war of 1812 forms the setting for “The Buccaneer.” opening Saturday at the Regent. Frederic March plays the part of Jean Lafitte, famous pirate who helped Andy Jackson defeat the British. When March is faced with the choice between two beautiful women, Margot Grahame, a belle of New Orleans, and Franciska. Gaal, a Dutch girl he has rescued from the sea, the pirate’s past sends him into a life of exile with Franciska at his side. TOWN HALL CONCERT. Songs, dances, instrumental music and elocution items provided a varied programme for a good audience at a concert held in the Town Hall, Greymouth, last evening, in support of the Sports Queen (Miss Colleen Moore), in aid of the Marist Brothers’ Home Rebuilding Fund’s queen carnival. The performers were as follow:—Marist Boys’ Choir, Messrs J Duffy, A. Airns, T. Hatch, Mrs W. Cogswell, Miss B. Foster (vocalists), Miss Colleen Moore (violin solos), Misses Jean Horrack and Molly Richmond (pianoforte duet), Miss Monica Sinnott (dance), Miss Patsy Kiely (recitation); Mr T. Crankslfaw (selections on the Hammond organ), Greymouth Highland Pipe Band, Scotch and Irish selections. The accompanists were Misses M. McSherry, M. Sinnott, and J. Horrack.

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS

An exhibition will be given on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Herb. Moore’s Reception Rooms, of the biggest and most widely representative collection of photographs ever sent to New Zealand. This is the pictorial section of the Royal Photographic Society’s coronation (1937) exhibition which has been sent to tour countries in the British Empire. In it there are more than 200 photographs from the British Isles, parts of the British Empire, and many countries in the world. During the last few years we have been fortunate in New Zealand in having loan exhibipaintings, drawings, and exof the other arts from famous galleries and collections in England. These have been particularly valuable to artists and to the many people who are interested in various branches of art and who are inevitably disappointed when they try to form an idea of the quality of an original by looking at a black and white or coloured reproduction of it in a book. Always a painting loses some valuable and vivid quality when it is reproduced; and no one can hope to see in boqks and magazines reproductions of all the works of art they might see in galleries and collections of the originals. It is something the same with photography; although there are processes which can and do reproduce photographs faithfully and vividly, it is not possible that magazines of a price low enough to be sold in great numbers could reproduce well or fairly even a tenth of the prints exhibited in any of the important competitive salons in the world’s main cities. So the best way for a great, number of people in different countries to see many photographs of the best quality from international exhibitions is for those exhibitions to go on tour and to be shown in the. main towns in the countries they visit. There is a particular value in the travelling exhibition for photographers themselves: it is of special importance to I hem to see the actual prints and not merely reproductions of those prints. Reproductions indicate the subject and the pattern; but they give little idea, of the technique of the print, of the paper that was used, or of lino points of treatment; and these are the things that every amateur or professional photographer finds almost as interesting as the subject itself. Photography has sometimes been criticised as something that is mechanised and undeserving of the name of art. But the depth and beauty and feeling in some of the Royal Society’s exhibits prove this to

an idle and vain criticism. Photography is no enemy of the painterit is an art with its own undeniable power.