ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 15 April 1935, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS OPERA HOUSE. “forsaking’all OTHERS.”

“Forsaking All Others,” the most star-studded film since “Dinner at Eight,” playing to capacity audiences at the Opera House, where it screens to-night and to-morrow at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. With a cast as large and magnificent as the last year hit, the new picture is revolutionary in several respects. In the first place the cast is headed by three outstanding stars, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Robert Montgomery, who, while they have played in teams, have never before appeared together. Perfectly cast, they comprise what could be called the ace triangle of the year. Secondly', the new picture has a .verve and pace • not the slightest bit weighted or slowed down by the enormity of its cast. This is due to the brilliant direction of W. S. Van Dyke, who with this picture excels even his smash hit, “The Thin Man,” and the excellent individual performances of each player. As a light comedienne, Joan Crawford reveals a new side to her many admirers. She is par excellence aa Mary, Parkavenue-ite, who is left standing at the altar one minute and is pursued by two most dashing males the next. We won’t spoil the story by explaining who is the lucky and who the unlucky male in the end; suffice it to say that Clark Gable and Hubert Montgomery both deserve her by merit of outstanding performances. Billie Burke as the nervous society matron; Charles Butterworth (of the “dead pan”) as Gable’s closest friend; Frances Drake as the dark-haired siren, and Rosalind Russell as Eleanor, the girl friend, all turn in brilliant performances. The modernised Victorian settings by Ceclvie Gibbons and E. B. Willis are the best you’ll see this year.

COMING WEDNESDAY

‘‘GREAT EXPECTATIONS.’’

Right out of the pages of classic history on to the screen comes “Great Expectations,” the greatest, most absorbing and most human story Charles Dickens ever wrote. “Great Expectations” comes to the Opera House on Wednesday and Thursday next. The story of “Great Expectations” will never grow old. It is just as fascinating and thrilling to-day as it was almost 100 years ago! Mag wit eh, the convict; “Pip,” the young man of great expectations; E’stella, Jaggers, the eccqntric Miss Havisham, all step out of the pages of the past into vivid, living personalities. A truly distinguished cast, headed by Henry Hull, America's premier interpretive actor, Phillips Holznes, Jane AVyatt, Floi’ence Reed, Alan Hale, Greorge Breakston, Francis L. Sullivan and many others, Interpret these famous characters.

GRAND THEATRE.

“MAN OF TWO WORLDS.”

When RTvO-Radio Pictures secured F.lissa. Landi to play the feminine lead opposite Frnizcis Lederer in “Man of Two Worlds,” which screens to-night and finally to-morrow at the Grand Theatre, it gave the cast another stellar luminary for a production which bids fair to be the season’s most impressive emotional dramatic screen achievement.

While Miss Landi does not appear in the earlier sequences of the production, her role of an English girl, who inspired a hopeless love in the heart of a young Arctic big-game hunter, is considered of starring importance. The public and critical acclaim. Miss Landi lias received for her recent pictures, “The Warrior’s Husband,” and* “I Loved You Wednesday,” is also said to have influenced the decision to give her co-starring billing with the sensational European actor. She appears opposite Lederer in the London liigh-life sequences, which provide the great romantic climax of the story, filmed from the powerful novel by Ainsworth Morgan. “Deluge,” the’second attraction, introduces a distinct variant of the eteinal triangle in the RKO’-Radio Picture which heat the pulses, stirred the sense and agitated the hearts of the Grand Theatre’s Saturday night audience, which .saw Peggy Shannon, Sidney Blackmer and Lois W ilson in featured roles. j Peggy Shannon as Claire,. Sidney Blackmer as Martin and Lois Wilson as Helen carry the melodramatic leads with intelligence, brilliance and understanding. They enact the triangular drama under standingly, emphasising its pathos and suspense,, and in the climax especially offer gripping histn-j onics. “Deluge” will be presented finally to-morrow night. <