ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 November 1935, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS OPERA HOUSE “LOVE ME FOREVER”

If there was nothing to “Love Me Forever” but the divine singing of Grace Moore, the picture would be gladly -recommended to every mortal the world over. But Columbia Pictures has given the sensational star a stunning background and a dramatic story that keeps one breathless and thrilled until the final fadeout.

,11 “Love Me Forev.er’ ’ must be compared with “One Night of Love,’ Mis Moore’s first picture for Columbia, there is no hesitation in stating that the new film surpasses her former triumph, “Love Me Forever” presents a dramatic and romantic story, tense and filled with suspense, while “One Night of Love” presented merely romance.

Eimphasised still more in “Love Me Forever” than in “One Night of Love,” is the beautiful music. Victor Schertzinger, who made Miss Moore's previous film and who is responsible for the excellence of the direction of “Love Me Forever,” has composed a new hit in his “Love Me Forever” melody. It is graceful and lilting. Featured, too, are several grand operatic selections from “La Boheme,” the Quartette from “Rigoletto,” “Funieuli-Funicula,” “II Bacio,’’ “Jingle Bells,” “The Bells ol‘ St. Mary’s,” “Rings on My Fingers,” and a rag-time tune by Schertzinger and Gus Kahn, entitled, “Whoa.” “Love Me Forever” will ,he presented finally to-night at the Opera House.

“CALL OF THE WILD” “Call of the Wild,” 20th Century’s filmisation of Jack London’s famous classic of the Klondyke gold rush of 1897, screens at the Opera House tomorrow for a season of three nights and three matinees, with Clark Gable, Loretta Young and Jack Oakie in its leading roles. Frank Conroy, Reginald Owen, Katherine deAlille, Sidney Toler and the dog “Buck,” who makes his screen debut in this Joseph AI. Schenck presentation, are also prominent in the cast. “Call of the Wild” is released through United Artists.

GRAND THEATRE

“BEST MAN WINS”

An amazingly vivid and graphic picture of the thrills, adventures and perils encountered by a pair of deepsea divers will be presented at the Grand Theatre to-night only. Tt is called “The Best Man Wins,” and stars those two rollicking screen hemen, Edmund Lowe and Jack Holt.

This thrilling new screen fare is entertainment of a vastly different and refreshing type, combining the diverse elements of sharp wit, boisterous action and undersea thrills that are unsurpassed for gripping excitement and striking beauty, and a tense dramatic theme. Lowe and Holt are seen as a pair of scrappy, inseparable buddies, both in love with the same girl. Lowe loses an arm while helping to rescue Holt, and as a result disappears. Holt leaves, too, joining the waterfront police. They meet again when Holt discovers his former friend working for Bela Lugosi, a diamond smuggler. The action from this point on takes a dramatic turn, climaxed by one of the most exciting sequences ever filmed below Water.

Lowe and Holt are perfect as the romantic Don Juans. Florence Rice, as the girl of their affections, confirms early critical approval with her splendid and sincere performance. Lugosi’s “Dr. Boehm” is a wily, shrewd and effective characterisation.