TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 18 September 1934, Page 2

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

OPERA HOUSE. TO-NIGHT. “PLYING DOWN; TO RIO. ’’ Beautiful Dolores Del Rio enacts the most thrilling romance ever experienced by a girl in RKO-Radi'o Pictures’ musical extravaganza, “Plying, Down to Rio,” which screens at the Opera House to-night and to-morrow at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Loved by two handsome screen heroes, Gene Raymond and Raul Koulien, she is first virtually kidnapped by Raymond, who soars aloft with her in his “flying piano” and wooes her with original compositions. Later she is spirited aloft by Roulien, but Raymond gets aboard the same ’plane; and in the climax Roulien is bested at love and Dolores and Raymond are married far above the clouds by the ’plane’s pilot. The lyrics in the big musical extravaganza, “Plying Down to Rio,” are credited to Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn, two of America’s most noted lyricists. Eliscu wrote the words for such late hits as “Without a Song,” and for Ruth Etting’s popular new number, “We Couldn’t Do Better Than That.” Among Kahn’s hits are “I Wish I Had a Girl,” and “Guilty.” The supporting programme is outstanding. OPERA HOUSE. COMING SATURDAY. “TARZAN AND HIS MATE.” The box plans open to-morrow morning at Miss Blake’s sweet shop for “Tarzan and His Mate,” starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan. “Tarzan and His Mate” screens at the Opera House on Saturday at 2 p.m. for a two-night season. GRAND THEATRE. TO-NIGHT. “HIS DOUBLE LIFE.” “His Double Life,” a Paramount release, at the Grand Theatre to-night and to-morrow night, is a genial and charming motion picture, which combines the artistry of Lillian Gish and Roland Young, and the inspired direction of Arthur Hopkins. The film is replete with mirth-pro-voking situations, and tells an interesting and unusual story that is never obvious or dull in its efforts. The hero is a shy, artistic genius played by Roland Young. Hi's valet has been buried under his master’s name, and rather than correct the error, Young decides to assume the valet’s personality. He marries the valet’s fiancee, Lillian Gish, and finds a new happiness in her peaceful rural home. 'He makes the mistake, however, of resuming his painting, and embarrassing complications ensue, which make it necessary for him to resume his true name. He fights the change bitterly, and the efforts of other people to make him reveal his true identity, furnishes a good deal of hilarious comedy. In the supporting east are Lumsden Hare, Lucy Beaumont and Montague Love.