AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 147, 7 June 1932, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

ARCADIA TALKIES, HASTINGS. “CAUGHT PLASTERED.” They’re here again 1 Madder and merrier than ever I The screen’s ace comedians, Bert Wheeler and Robt. Woolsey in the R.K.O. production “Caught Plastered”, which is a dizzy whirl of brand new nonsense. That is enough said. However, for the benefit of those who haven't seen these incorrigible laugh kings, the picture is not only funny, but it is funny in an altogether refreshing way. It combines new laughs and dramatic tensity. There is even some slapstick, and plenty of giddy patter. Opposite Wheeler is Dorothy Lee. Wheeler's whimsical! love-making and Dorothy’s charm are very much in evidence through the picture. Tommy Tanner (Wheeler) and Egbert Higinbotham (Robert Woolsey) enter a mid-west train on their uppers. They meet Ma 1 alley (Lucy Beaumont) who is about to lose her drug store because of the machinations of a villain (Jason Robards). They take over the drug store to save her from the poorhouse, and are about ready to pay the “heavy” when he spikes their soda with liquor and tips off the police. When things are darkest, Dorothy Lee (daughter of the local police chief) outmanoeuvres the crook. The ridiculous positions in which these two maniacs find themselves will keep you in shrieks of laughter. The picture will be screened to-day, Wednesday. Thursday and Friday, and intending patrons should reserve early at the Theatre Shop. Phone 4'336. MUNICIPAL THEATRE. HASTINGS. “THE BELOVED BACHELOR.’’ A tender and intriguing love story is presented in Paramount’s “The Beloved Bachelor,’’ the first picture in which Paul Lukas appears as the featured lead, showing to-night at the Municipal Theatre. Lukas, throughout the action of the play, is a thoroughly lovable personage. As a sculptor, who is slowly carving a name for himself in the world of art, lie lives quietly in a studio buildv■ ith two artist cronies, Charlie Ruggles and Harold Minjir. Paul is in love with a beautiful young actress, Vivienne Osborne. But she becomes unjustly suspicious of his relations with a woman who had been , model, and their romance is shat.cred. Later the model dies, leaving a six-year-old daughter. Paul, out of kindness adopts the tot, and rears her in his own home. When the ward attains young womanhood, she develops an intense love for Paul, but cannot bring herself to tell him of this feeling. He continues to treat her as a little girl Meanwhile he has achieved renown for his creative work as a sculptor. The former sweetheart, now married to a business man, learns of his success and meets him again, after a lapse of 12 years. He still loves her, and she declares that she will get a divorce so that they can bo married. But the beautiful young ward, Dorothy Jordan, learns of the renewed love affair, and decides that it is time to do something vital in behalf of her own affection for Paul. She doos something—and the result is a happy one. COSY DE LUXE. “THE MILLIONAIRE.” In “The Millionaire,” which is at the Cosy Theatre, Hastings, at present, George Arliss is once again presented as a shrewd, lovable and waggish character, but quite differently cast from any of his other talking picture roles. Mr. Arliss plays the part of James Alden, a self-made millionaire automobile manufacturer, who in the quest for wealth depleted his health. His physician advises his going West for a rest cure. This Alden reluctantly does, urged by his daughter Barbara, and his wife. Time hangs heavily, and he is in fear that his daughter will marry one of the idle rich. To add to his discomfiture an insurance agent tells him that retired business men are considered higher risks than those who are still active. Alden determines to get busy, and without his family’s knowledge, answers tho ad. of the owner of a gas-filling station. Ho arrives at the address just after a likeable young man, Bill Merrick, has paid all his capital for a half-interest in the garage. Posing as a working man with just a small amount of cash, Alden buys the other half and becomes Bill’s partner. ... No further part of the whimsical and amusing story need bo told. “The Millionaire” offers Evalyn Knapp, David Manners, Noah Beery, Bramwell Fletcher, Ivan Simpson, Tully Marshall, J. C. Nugent, James Cagney, J. Farrell MacDonald and Sam Hardy in tho supporting cast.