HAWERA ATTRACTIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 29 May 1935, Page 10

HAWERA ATTRACTIONS

FILMS FOR THE COMING WEEK OPERA HOUSE May 29.—“ The Gay Divorcee” (Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers). May JO.—“Aladdin” Pantomime. May ill and June I.—“ Evergreen” (Jessie Matthews and Sorinic Hale). June 3 and 4. —“Vanessa, Her Love Story” (Robert Montgomery and Helen Hayes). GRAND THEATRE. May 29.—-Grand Theatre sub-let. May 30 ;uud 31.—“ Lest We Forget” (Stewart Rome and Anne Yates). June I and 3.—“ Beyond Bengal.” June 4 and s.—“ Here is My Heart” (Bing Crosbie and Kitty Carlisle).

Robert Montgomery. Robert Montgomery, eo-starred with Helen Hayes in “Vanessa: Her Love Story,” at the Opera House on Monday and Tuesday next, is a native of Boacon, New York, and was educated in fashionable private schools until tho death of his father brought the revelation that the family fortune had vanished. Thereafter lie was a deck hand on ail oil tanker, mechanic's helper oil a railroad, and held other odd jobs until a friend persuaded him to try his hand at acting. Played 72 weeks in Rochester, New York, after a hard training course in New York; then 1 returned to New York and played in “Aricen O’Dare,” “One of the Family,” “Dawn,” “Garden of Eden,” “Possession,” and others. Was won over by the films, signed a long-term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and has been featured and starred in a long succession, of nit pictures, beginning with “So This is College,” and continuing through “Inspiration,” “Our Blushing Brides,” “Shipmates,” “Private Lives,” “Letty Lyntony”! “Hell Below,” “When Ladies Meet,” “Another Language,” “Hide-out,” “Biography of a Bachelor Girl,” “Forsaking All Others,” and many, many more. War and Peace. The Sound City Studios at Littleton Park represented both France in war time and England in peace time, during the making of the Norman Loudon production “Lest We Forget,” which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd., will present at the Grand Theatre tomorrow and on Friday. For the prologue of this picture, a corner of the extensive grounds was dug up and embellished with barbed wire entanglements, for the scene in which the four representatives of the British Isles make their pact, to meet again in peacetime. With the main body of the story, which deals of course with that re-uniony the setting was a typical English Manor House. Sonnie. Hale.

Comes of a theatrical- family, his [ father, Robert Hale, and his sister Bin- ! nie Hale, both being stage celebrities. Sonnie made his stage debut in 1921, in the chorus of “Fun of the Fayrc” at the London Pavilion, subsequently touring with tlio revue and playing a prominent role. Later, established himself as leading man in a number of C. B. Cochran’s successes. In films he lias played leading roles in “Tell Me To-night” and “Happy Ever After.” One of the plays in which Sonnie Hale jointly with hrs charming wife, Jessie Matthews, scored a brilliant success, was “Evergreen,” a picturisation of which will be shown at the Opera House on Friday and Saturday. In the film version he does not play his original role of Tommy • Thompson, but that of Leslie Bonn, the theatrical producer. .

Irving Berlin’s big-number for ‘•‘■Tap Hat” the newest Astaire-Rogers musical, will be called “Cheek to Cheek,” and will take the public’s mind off the “Continental.’