AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 269, 28 October 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MUNICIPAL THEATRE, HASTINGS “STRANGERS IN LOVE” His amazing facility for dual characterisations which made the talking version of “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” one of the most thrilling of recent screen releases, stands'Fredric March in good stead in his latest Paramount appearance, “Strangers in Love,” to be shown at the Municipal Theatre tonight only. March, as himself and a twin brother, in a double personality part, is more genteel than in the spine-chiller and has a great deal more business of pleasing romantic type. The story, adapted from the novel, “The Shorn Lamb,” relates in fastmoving and sharp-witted manner, of the regeneration of a “black sheep,’’ who gives up tramping over the world to come home and claim his rightful inheritance and a no mean share of romance. “THE DOOMED BATTALION.” A little known by highly dramatic phase of the World War is graphically portrayed in Universal’s “The Doomed Battalion” which shows on Saturday at the Hastings Municipal Theatre. The setting of this unusual war film is the Dolomite Alns of Austria, where thrilling battles between Austrian and Italian mountain troops decided important issues. Tala Birell makes her debut as the loyal wife of an Austrian mountain guide, who must harbour the man commissioned to destroy her husband’s company. ARCADIA TALKIES, HASTINGS “STREET SCENE.” “Street Scene,” picturised from the famous Pulitzer prize play by Elmer Rice, will close at the Arcadia tonight. In directing the story of -i warm-heatred romance and a passio.. ate murder against the living screen of a city street, King Vidor makes of “Street Scene” his most ambitious effort. Sylvia Sidney has the romantic lead in the picture. William Collier, junr., plays opposite her. Estelle Taylor also has a prominent role. Ebner Rice himself adapted his stage play to the screen for Mr Goldwyn. It ran 600 performances in New York, and played for two years through the principal cities of the United States. Most of the original stage cast were brought to Hollywood for the picture. Beulah Bondi, David Landau, Russell Hopton, Anna Konstant and Greta Granstedt are among Hie featured players. The picture will be screened to-night, and patrons are advised to reserve early at the theatre shop, ’phone 4336. “THE MENACE,” TO-MORROW Lovers of the exciting in film entertainment have thrilldom at its best in a screen adaption of one of Edgar Wallace’s best sellers, which opens at the Arcadia to-morrow. It is “The Menace,” and was transferred to the screen by Columbia Pictures from the well-known story “The Feathered Serpent.” With the exception of the two leading women “The Menace’’ has an all-English cast. Bette Davis and Natalie Moorhead are the two American girls, who incidently have English roles. The native Englishmen in the cast are H. B. Warner, Walter Byron, Crawford Kent, Murray Kinnell, Charles Gerrard and Halliwell Hobbs.

COSY TALKIES, HASTINGS

“THE CROWD ROARS” James Cagney’s new picture for Warner Bros., “The Crowd Roars,” a story of high-speed auto racing, closes at the Cosy Theatre, Hastings, to-night. The large cast of professionals and non-professionals includes, in addition to Cagney, Joan Biondell, Ann Dvorak, Erio Linden, Guy Kibbee, Frank McHugh, and Charlotte Merriam. Among the famous racing drivers seen in “The Crowd Roars” are William Arnold, Lou Schneider, Harry Hartz, Ralph Hepburn, Fred Guisso, Phil Pardee, Spider Matlock, Jack Brisko, Fred Frame and many others. Arnold and Schneider were Indianapolis Speedway champions for 1930 and 1931 respectively. “The Crowd Roars" from an original story by Howard Hawks, who also directed it, and Seton I. Miller, concerns the rise of a racing driver to championship heights and his subsequent downfall and regeneration, following his responsibility for the death of his partner in. an important race. BUSTER KEATON’S LATEST. The funniest picture ever made by the frozen-faced comedian, Buster Keaton, is “Speak Easily,” which will open on Saturday at the Cosy Theatre, Hastings. “Speak Easily” tells of a most learned but unsophisticated professor who allows himself to be inveigled into backing a Broadway revue. What happens on the opening night when the professor unwittingly becomes the hit of the show forms one of the most entertaining stories of the year. Keaton is assisted by Jimmy Durante. __________