AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 12 February 1936, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House “CAR 99 •> Sir Guy Standing, veteran English actor, follow.-. his role in “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer’-’ with a different type of portrayal in Paramount’s “Car 99,’’ coming this afternoon and to-night' to the Opera House. Standing’s film roles keep him *so busy he has no time for Hollywood socia,' life. Standing was knighted for his services in the English Navy during the war. In Paramount’s “Car 99,’ based on the /private files of one of the most efficient police organisation* in America, Standing plays the leader of a gang of bank bandits. Jus’ when he seems to have outwitted the entire police department, he is defeat ed 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, i.ielud tng Melody Mttgic, Sporting Sounds, Bety Boop Cartoon, Comedy, Shorty on the Farm. “VAGABOND LADY.’* “Raw steak’*—-that's the wav Robert Young and Reginald Denn? described their faces when they finished a certain scene in “Vagabond Lady,’’ the Hal Roach M-G-M 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.’’ (BRYANT’SI BELLRINGERS. Bryant’s Bellringers arc eohTihg to the Town Hall to-night -and to-mor-row. featuring hypnotism in all its wonders, and Rhoda Rainton, girl baritone.

Recent Theatre DOUBLE FEATURE GREAT COMEDIAN’S ROLE IN “THE LAD.’’ Gordon Harker, (Tie great British comedian, has possibly -the finest roi.i of his career in “The Lad,’’ to-day at the Regent Theatre. He is jum his inimitable self all the time —yet. he is two separate and distinct peisons! First', he is seen as the ‘ ‘ old lag’’ just out of gaol. Then he is mistaken for a private detective m a beautiful country mansion, and we see the second Gordon. The “refaned’’ 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 (Jock ney or STayfair man-.about-town, one factor a ways remains constant with Gordon Harker in “The Lad’’ —bis ability to cause continuous laughter “10 DOLLAR RAISE.*' “10 Dollar Raise’’ the new Fox Film comedy-drama which opens to day at the ’Regent Theatre, has a history behind it. Reviewers are convinced that Peter B. Kyne was thinking of Edward Everett Horton wlu’<i he wrote “'lO Dollar Raise.’’ “n--featured with Horton is Karen • Icy. The story concerns a timid bookkeeper suddenly falling in love, with a new stenographer, and forced to "balance the problem of a static paycheck and an ecstatic romance From a prince of a fellow, his bo-’s turns into a tyrant. The steno., patient and understanding, tries to onto her sweetheart of inferiority, and <ii his fear of the boss. Not until hetman is swindled good and proper, and turns his humiliation at tiu hands of a sharper into profit for himself, does the worm turn, and the erstwhile unassuming office slave elhlanges into commanding parsouf.l ity. ST. JOHN’S FLOWER SHOWA popular annual fixture, St. .John’s Flower Show, will be held at StJohn’s Hall to-day. Various stalls will offer choice flowers, sweets, cakes and produce, as well ns sewing. . Splendid outdoor entertainment will include croquet and other games and afternoon tea will be procurable at the show. Previous show records are likely to be exceeded, as this year’s display of flowers is of exceptional merit and quality.