AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 25 May 1935, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House In “Mala the Magnificent,’’ Captain Peter Freuchen’s thrilling story, life and love among the natives of the most northern point, inhabited by mankind, has been faithfully and beautifully recorded. The moral code of the Eskimo, which permits a man to have more than one wife, serves as the jfjot of one of the strongest dramatic situations ever to reach the talking screen. Mala, mighty hunter and leader of his tribe, is the centre of a powerful drama in which the wrong done his Eskimo wife by a white man is vividly revenged. His tenderness of feeling for his family in early sequences wins a sympathy that holds flic audience spellbound as the epic scenes unfold. Laurel and Hardy’s latest comedy, “Dirty Work” will also he shown. The new serial, “Pirate Treasure” will commence at the matinee. SUNDAY. Frances Lederer and Elissi Landi are starred in “Man ’ of i Two Worlds” to be screened Sunday night. Proceeds are in aid of Mayor’s Unemployment Fund. MONDAY NIGHT. A grand double feature programme “Double Door” and “The Line Up” will commence on Monday. Mary Morris, famed Broadway stage star, makes her first screen appearance in Paramount’s “Double Door.” the story of a tyrannical, half-mad spinster who rules the fates and the fortunes of one of New York’s wealthiest families, from within the gloomy family mansion overlooking Fifth Avenue. Evelyn Venable, Kent Tavlor Sir Guy • Standing, and the New Zealander, Colin Tapley, are featured with Mary Morris. The inner workings of the nolice department! of a large city are revealed in thrilling detail in “The Line Up.” Marion Nixon and William Gargnn are co-starred as the innocent suspect and the enterprising young detective. John Miljan is Ihe suave villain. Noel Francis is hiq alluring accomplice, and Harold Huber is the flashv gangster who uses fur coats instead of diamond bracelets t-o win his girl friends. At Runanga ‘to-night. “Lnt’« Fnl 1 in Love” starring Edmund Lowe and Ann Sotheran, will he shown, and Mar Robson and Mitzi j n “Little Orphanl Annie’’ on Sunday night. Regent Theatre DOUBLE FEATURE TO DAY. “TH® LITTLE P.TANT” A ND “REGISTERED NURSE.” A special double feature programme

commences at the Regent Theatre at this afternoon’s matinee at 2.15. ami will be shown to-night at 7 45, Monday and Tuesday. If a leopard cannot change his spots, can a dyed-in-the-wool gangster become a gentleman? Can a big-time racketeer, no matter how many millions he has, crash the gates of society and “make’’ the 400? Some convulsingly comical answers to such questions arc supplied by “The Little Giant,” a First National picture, with Edward G- Robinson in the role of “Bugs” Ahern, a Chicago beer baron, who quits his underworld leadership with the legalising of beer to become a social climber On Cali fornia’s “gold eoast.” Mary Astor, Kenneth Thomson, Russell Hopton. Helen Vinson and Donald Dilinway have important roles in the picture. “Registered Nurse,’’ a First National picture, is a romantic drama of hospital life with an entirely new twist. Based on the story by Florence Johns and Wilton Lackaye, Jr., it deals with the love life of the nurses and doctors in a great metropolitan hospital rather than with the more sombre or technical side of such an institution. Only two patients come prominently into the picture, and those supply the laughable incidents in a story 'that loans more to thrilling mf’oilrama than to comedy. Bebe Daniels, f.v’e Tai bot and John Halliday are i turod. Reserve at Theatre office, v. ' ,monc 601. 1