ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 25 July 1935, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS OPERA HOUSE “JACK, AHOY.” <‘ Jack Ahoy! ’ ’ —Jack Hulbert’s latest starring vehicle, provides many amusing situations, a romance, a dash of thrill, and brilliantly photographed and impressive pictures of Britain’s naval might.

This comedy cocktail, made to an approved and palatable recipe, is both sparkling and exhilarating;. It has a good story (although stories don’t seem to matter much when Jack Hulbert is on the screen), of Jack, who enlists as a naval rating, falls in love with his commander’s daughter, and more by luck than judgment rescues both of them from pirates and also brings to safety a submarine the pirates have captured. Undoubtedly the outstanding episode in a film that provides ant- number of hearty laughs, is the submarine sequence. Jack hasn’t the haziest conception of how to work the thing, and to see the submarine turning turtle, or rising when it should descend, the while the pirates in a speedy, armed motor launch, are shelling it, is to witness one of the most diverting incidents in films for many a day. It will screen to-night and to-morrow at the Opera House.

“SWEET ADELINE.” Irene Dunne sings five songs, solo, besides two duets in “Sweet Adeline,” Warner Bros.’ elaborate musical film which comes to the Opera House on Saturday at 2 p.m. for a two-night season. All of the songs were written by Jerome Kern, and include “Here Am I,” “Why Was I Born,” “Lonely Feet,” “Don’t Ever Leave Me” and “Naughty Boy.” Donald Woods plays opposite Miss Dunne, while others in the cast include Hugh Herbert, Ned Sparks, Joseph Cawthorn, Louis Calhern and Winifred Shaw. Mervyn Leßoy directed the production from the screen play by Erwin S. Gelsey, while Bob Connolly staged the ensembles in which, scores of beautiful girls take part. “La Cucaracha,” the special added attraction on this programme, is a romantic story of life in the cantinas of Old Mexico and takes its title from the song and dancing -woven into the picture which is in technicolour.

GRAND THEATRE.., “THE HUMAN SIDE.” “The Human Side,” one of the most delightful ieomedy dramas of the season starring Adolphe Menjou and featuring Doris Kenyon, Betty Liawford, Charlotte Henry, Joseph Cawthorn and a cast of outstanding players screens at the Grand Theatre to-night and .tomorrow. Wholesome, extremely funny and punctuated with some of the most humanly dramatic moments seen on the screen in a long time, Universal’s “The Human Side” can well be regarded as one of the outstanding films. The picture has charm and a great deal of humour which submerges from time to time tender and dramatic moments of the piece assert themselves. Its wholesomeness and its hilarious humour are among, its outstanding traits and the acting of every member of the cast.