STAGE and SCREEN

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 6 March 1935, Page 10

STAGE and SCREEN

ATTRACTIONS . • *V ’ • ■■■' ’ . FILMS TOR WEEK OPERA HOUSE. *. '• /’ .. • ' : ■ March 1 Gbehejfad Cavaliers ’ * (BertWhceler and Robert Woolly)* March . 7 and S.—“ The Host Patrol” (Victor MeLaglen and Boris, Karloff). March 9, 11 and 12. —“The Barretts of Wimpoie Streets (Fredrib March, Norma Shearer and •Charles Laughton).' March 13.-rr“Stand Up and Cheer” (Warner Baxter; Shirley Temple, John Boles and James Dunn). IfAWERA

GRAND, THEATRE. March • 6 Nurse” Bebe .Daniels, Lyle Talbot and John Halliday). t , , 1 March 7 dud. VS.—‘‘His - Greatest Gamble ’’ (Richard ’ "Dixand Dorothy Wilson). March and ‘The- .Cireus Clown” (Joe 'E. Brown and Patricia. Ellis).. ?‘-’f c ■ : , •March 12 and 13. —‘ ‘Ladies Should Listen” -(Cary Grant, Frances Drake And Edward Everett Horton). . i.

John Halliday. • No more'* big bad wolf ” ‘roles foj‘ John Halliday. Not in'First ’Natioiial pictures at least. • : r :- . • ■; >• For the first time since- fi'e. went; to Hollywood, he was allowed to lay asidij his suave, insinuating villainies and play the role of a (devoted lover iii 1 ‘ RegisteredNurse,’.’ which will screen finally at the Grand Theatre-,to-

night.

Halliday is the • chief surgeon in the Hospital in \vhich..3ebc Daniels is a nurse, and the. rival fori another doctor, Lyle her love. Halliday an%j?|root share honours as Kobe’s maseltiitfe leads, with Talbot playing the vilijan. role as the unscrupulous. surgeouTdo whom: love is l merely a passing fancy, .N' The picturg 1 ;' dcals.vvith the glowing romance .ofiat pmrseiin a metropolitan hospital an3Ta&:bki3e4,Qn tfe‘ drama by Florence Johns and" "Wilton Yackaye, jnr. Others’ in the east include Irene Franklin, Sidney Toler, Gordon 7 West 1 eott, Renee Whitney, Minna Gombell, Beulah Bondi, Yince Barnett* Phillip Reed and Mayo Methot. . ,

Medieval City Erected.

A complete city of the medieval period was constructed oh the RKOIthdid to background r'tbe nonsensical Cockeyed Caval; ieirs,” 'Bert Wheeler’s and Robert Wdolsejr’s new .starring comedy, wlncA will screen finally at the Opera House to-night. j . v 1 Constructing 'settings for this pretentious co-med-y- ->hvolved detailed - research to assist the builders. Before ‘ ‘ Coekeyed Cavaliers ’ ’ was completed studio workmen had constructed a section of old Loudon, a colorful English Inn of the early days, a small English village, several castles and a gigantic hunting lodge.

The era and locale of “Cockeyed Cavaliers,’” required many huge settings and elaborate costumes and hundreds of ft extra ” play ers. :

The story .depicts Wheeler and Woolley's comedy adventures during the Middle Ages, and the theme uses music, girls, comedy and dances of the modern vintage to burlesque the knighthood period. Mark Sandrieh directed ‘ ‘ Coekeyed Cavaliers” with Thelma Todd and Dorothy Lee in’ the cast.

The first Soviet “.slapstick”; comedy has just been completetT. It is called “The Youth of Maxim,” and tells the old story of the-local boy who makes good. A drunken pig is one of the principal characters, y ; . ,

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