AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 3 July 1936, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House “AGE OF INDISCRETION.” When parents divorce —what rights have the children? This is the question asked in “Age of Indiscretion,” amazing drama of ch.ldren of separation ami the law courts, playing at the Opera House to-night and Saturday. IPaul Lukjas, Ma.d'ge Evans, May Robson and little David Jack Holt are involved in the main action, a graphic echo of several famous court cases. It has produced a gripping piece of human interest entertainment with high drama. May Robson plays .he mill onaire mother-in-law, battling with her millions to wrest a child from his father following a separation. Lukas is the fighting father. Edward Ludwig directed the picture from an original story by Lenore Coffee at the Metro’-Goidwyn-Mayer stud.os, which gave it lavish staging. Despite the magnitude of its theme, it abounds in deft human touches —the love of the boy and “Flush” th e famous spaniel of “The Barretts of Wimpole Street’’ and their engaging tricks together, the scenes w.th Miss Robson, the boy and the bob-sled, and such interludes of comply and heart interest. Included among the featuretts is a Cinesound Review, “Our Gang Comedy” and a Coloured Musical Cartoon.

Resent Theatre

Tn “Nevada” at th e Regent, Larry “Buster” Crabbe, playing the leading male role, is saving lives, but not in the usual way. Prior to his screen career, Crabbe, former Olympic sw.m champion, was a life guard and pulled from the ocean more than twenty-two persons who otherwise would have drowned. This time he employs a gun to save the girl he loves from cattle rustlers. Frank Tuttle, one of the screen’s ace directors, cast 3 blondes in the most important feminine roles '.n the Paramount picture. “Two for To-night,” now at the Regent Theatre. Joan Bennett, the “love interest” for Bing Crosby, is a blonde, Thelma Todd her rival, for Crosby’s affections, is equally blonde, as is Mary Boland, who plays Crosby’s mother. Although only 24, Ray Noble British composer, and band leader, who appears with his orchestra, in “The B g Broadcast of .1936” at the Regent tomorrow, has 100 or mor { > songs to his credit. He is on e of the many stage, radio and screen personalities who contribute specialty numbers in the comedy, .in addition to the featured players which include Jack Oakie, Burns and Allen, Lyda Robert!, Wendy Barrio, Henry Wadsworth and the Nicholas Brothers. Stars who are seen in specialties .that form a background to the main theme of the film ar e Bing Crosby, Amos ’n’ Andy’, Ethel Merman. Bill Robinson, Mary Boland and Charles- ‘Ruggles. “(Jhe Big Broadcast of 1936” is a diverting

comedy romance, with music, of the experiences of two radio entertainers, shanghaied to the Cuban estate of a righ young Countess, who cannot decide which of the two she- loves. An international broadcasting , contest figures in the film as an important, laugh-provoking sequence, climaxed with a thrilling escape of the two boys and subsequent chase by the Countess’ henchmen,