ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 August 1935, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS OPERA HOUSE “GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935”

“Gold Diggers of 1935,” First National’s latest mammoth musical spectacle, shows at the Opera House tonight and at the Grand Theatre on Monday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. The picture is said to carry more unique and unusual numbers, greater song hits and more hilarious fun thaa any other musical comedy produced by this company. Busby Berkeley, musical comedy genius, not only created and staged the numbers, but directed the entire picture. The story by Robert Lord and Peter Milne is a rollicking comedy with three separate love tangles. There is a play within the play, a wealthy widow producing a milk fund show at a swanky summer hotel. Dick* Powell and Gloria Stuart have the romantic leads, with Frank McHugh and Dorothy J)are in a semicomic love affair and Glenda Farrell taking an eccentric millionaire over the jumps. Alice Brady has the role of the rich widow who is bilked of a considerable fortune by a theatrical producer, a part played by Adolphe Menjou, Joseph Cawthorn in the role of a. scenic artist, and the hotel manager, Grant Mitchell. Winifred Shaw, the former musical comedy stage star, sings in the show. Dfiok Powell/ also sings catchy airs which were written by the famous song team of Warren and Dubin. In addition to the regular cast, Ramon and Rosita, dancers, and 300 beautiful girls appear in the dance numbers. The screen play is by Manuel Self and Peter Milne. An excellent supporting programme will also be presented. GRAND~THEATRE TO-NIGHT ONLY “CHINATOWN SQUAD” In the realm of mystery drama the screen has shown no more absorbingly interesting film-play than “Chinatown Squad,” the Universal picture which screens to-niglit only at the Grand Theatre.

The story deals with a mysterious murder committed in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and the efforts of a bumptious bus-driver and a white girl masquerading ,as an Oriental, to unravel the crime. The picture has been lavishly staged and the backgrounds depicting beautiful Chinese wood carving are an artistic delight. The direction of Murray Roth has maintained the story on a swiftly moving plane, with comedy and tense drama nicely balanced throughout the picture. Lyle Talbot, Valerie Hobson, Hugh O’Connell and Andy Devine are great. Also showing Warner Bros. Teddington production, “Mr. What’s His Name,” which stars Sir Seymour Hicks, screens at the Grand Opera Theatre to-night only. Others in the cast include Olive Blakeney, Enid Stamp-Taylor, Toni Edgar Bruce, Martita Hunt, Henry Longhurst, Louis Broughton, Margaret Darner, Arthur Metcalfe, Dorothy Hammond.

Also showing, Buck Jones in “The Red Rider.”