AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 148, 8 June 1932, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS

MUNICIPAL THEATRE, HASTINGS. “THE YELLOW TICKET.” On January 6, 1914, a few short months before the Czar of Russia mobilised his millions for the Great War iu which he was about to lose his empire and his life, a great play, dealing with his tyrannous rule, was presented on Broadway. It was Michael Morton’s story, “The Yellow Ticket,” and in the romantic lead was a young actor with a Byronic profile, as yet unknown to fame and Hamlet, John Barrymore. Now, in a new medium, the talking picture, with a new and glamorous feminine star, Elissa Landi, “The Yellow Ticket,” a Fox picture, comes to the Muncipal Theatre, Hastings, beginning to-night. This time in the part of the sinister chief of the secret police is another great actor, Lionel Barrymore, brother of John. By a peculiar coincidence of casting the two, separated only by the years occupied in “The Yellow Ticket” the same relative positions as they did in their New York stage success. “The Jest,” in which brother John was the sensitive poet bullied by Lionel as a brutal, cruel soldier. Elissa Landi has the historic part of Myra, created by Florence Reed, and is said to exceed in her role anything sh has done so far in pictures. Laurence Olivier, newcomer to the screen from the London and Broadway stage, plays the romantic male lead. The supports are all-talkie and a good series. ARCADIA TALKIES, HASTINGS. “CAUGHT PLASTERED.” They’re here again! Madder and merrier than ever! 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 Talley (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) outmaneouvres 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, Thursday and Friday, and intending patrons should reserve early at the theatre shop. ’Phone 4336. 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 the ad. of the owner of a gas-filling station. He 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 the supporting cast.