TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 6 March 1935, Page 2

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

OPERA HOUSE. ‘ ‘COCKEYED CAVALIERS. ’ ’ Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey are on the screen of the Opera House finally to-night with a bag full of new tricks, crazy capers, riotous corned}’ and gorgeous girls galore in “Cockeyed Cavaliers,” their current RKOxfadio co-starring mirthquake. As a couple of goofy gallants of the medieval ages, Wheeler and Woolsey trip through the melange of merriment, melody and misfortune with Thelma Todd amr Dorothy Lee. “Cockeyed Cavaliers” revolves around tho chiseling proclivities of Bert and Bob in the days of old when knights were bold. Dot Lee, as comely commoner who is trying to evade a marriage with the roly poly Duke of Weskit, joins the dizzy duo and shares their weals and woes. 'Then Thelma Todd enters the scene and the comedy catapults dizzily to a side-splitting climax picturing a frenzied hunt for a wild boar.

In the costumes of the period, Wheeler and Woolsey are funnier than ever before—and that is attaining a new acme in comedy. Although the story is laid in the early days, the dialogue and music ai*e modern, a contrast responsible for much of the humour in this burlesque. Will Jason and Val Burton, composers of “Penhouse Serenade” and “Isn’t This a Night for Love,” are responsible for the enticing melodies, “I Love to Dilly Dally” and “I Went Hunting.” , Miss Lee is a tricky charmer m her natty boyish attire. Miss Todd is an alluring blonde foil for "Woolsey s run. In other roles, Noah Beery, Robert Greig, Henry Sedley and Franklyn Pangborn are splendid.

“LOST PATROL.” Mesopotamia, said by Biblical students to he the site of the Garden, of Eden, is the locale of “The Lost Patrol,” new RKO-Radio picture featuring Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Reginald Denny, Wallace -£ord and others, which screens at the Opera House at 2 pan. and 8 p.m. to-mor-row and finally Friday.

In the picture, it is no Eden, however, but a desert of death. Eleven British soldiers are lost on the shifting sand dunes when their officer is killed by Arabs. Talcing refuge in an oasis, the troopers wait for the circle of death, made by besieging Arabs, to close in upon them. Said to be a. striking revelation of masculine character, the picture shows how the men wait for death. Especial interest centres about the scenes in which they talk of women, knowing they will never see them again.

‘BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET’

The box plans open this morning at the Opera House confectionery for the “Barretts of AVimpole Street” the Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer masterpiece featuring Norma Shearer, Fredric March and Charles Laughton, which opens its season at the Opera House for three nights and three matinees commencing on Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. This attraction was originally booked to Hawera for a season of four nights, but in view ol its great demand for other towns the management received advice from Wellington yesterday that it will be impossible to hold it in Hawera. for a longer season than three days, and patrons are urged to reserve. GRAND THEATRE:. “REGISTERED NURSE.” “Registered Nurse,” the First National picture which screens finally tonight at the Grand Theatre, is said to be a romantic drama of hospital '.ife, with an entirely new twist. Based on the story by Florence Johns and Wilton Lackave, jun., 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. Bebe Daniels, John Halliday and Lvle Talbot are in the leading roles.

“HIS GREATEST GAMBLE.” A father and’ lover rival each other for a beautiful girl’s affection with an interesting outcome in- “His Greatest Gamble,*’ RKO-Radio’s new .film drama starring Richard Dix at the Grand Theatre to-morrow and Friday. Dix as father and Bruce Cabot as lover are the opponents for the 18-year-old daughter, played by Dorothy Wilson, in “His Greatest Gamble.” Forcibly removed from his daughter’s care for ten years, the father returns to salvage her from her social-mad mother’s custody. But this rescue will soon thrust her into the arms of her lover, to whom the mother objects and lose her to the father forever. e

The father’s choice in a pathospacked denouement onds the drama satisfactorily. . In other supporting roles with Richard Dix in “His Greatest Gamble” are Erin O’Brien-Moore and Edith Fellows. John Robertson directed.