AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 212, 21 August 1934, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

COSY THEATRE. HASTINGS. “GOLD DIGGERS: ” LAST SHOWING. Aline McMahon and Joan Biondell •Te the gold diggers in the latest him •f that name, now at the Cosy Theatre; Guy Kibbee and Warren William are their not-so-very-willing v.iotims; Ginger Rogers is the persevering but unlucky “vamp,’’ and Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell supply the necessary romantic love interest. The story is •lever, the music good, the settings marvellous and the him contains some of the most elaborate undressing yet •een on the screen. The story is, perhaps, better than the average, dealing with a trio of down-and-out show-girls who land good jobs, only to find that the show, at the last moment, may have to be withdiawn. No, not because pt the censor but because the leading juvenile develops the pains of old age. Everything, however, is solved tunefully in the end and the four gold diggers realise the error of their ways and decide to settle down—after their victims have settled up—with the “play boys" they have been running around with. MURDER MYSTERY S. 8. Van Dine, who wrote “The Kennel Murder Case,” a Warner Bros.’ picture, which opens at the Cosy Theatre to-morrow, with William Powell as the famous detective Philo Vance, is one of the foremost writers of detective novels His books have been translated into several foreign languages and the sales in the English ■peaking countries have run into the millions. The picture is one of the most baffling mysteries of any of Van Dino’s Stories with a strange love tangle as the motivating theme of the plot. Others in the east include Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Helen Vinson, Jack Laßue, Arthur Hohl. Henry O'Neill •nd Robert McWade. ARCADIA THEATRE. WILL KOGERS IN “DAVID HARUM.” The film that thousands upon thousands 01 people have asked Will Kogers to make is now at the Arcadia Theatre. It is “David Harum,” und has the famous star in what is the most fitting role of his entire career Presenting the character of the shrewd horse-trader with a heart that alternates between cold steel and gold, Rogers is said never to have been better. Every facet in the makeup ot thi> famous character of literature is given full play by America's foremost humor-ist-philosopher. He fairly glories in the role. It is a film that has the elements that will find a response in the heart ot every spectator.

“SONG 0’ MY HEART.” In “Song 0’ My Heart,” the Arcadia’s picture on Wednesday, the public will hav6 an opportunity of hearing one of the world’s greatest singers sing his most popular songs. John McCormack, the Irish tenor, is the singer, and he renders nine favourite songs in his best style. REGENT THEATRE, HASTINGS. A gripping drama. ‘Miss Fane’s Baby Is Stolen’’ is one of the most intensely gripping dramas that have been brought to the screen. It has a story that strikes at the very hearts ot women. It gives Dorothea Wieck opportunity for powerful emotional scenes which, as you can imagine, she performs in a thrilling fashion. Also in this picture which shows at the Regent Theatre to-night, is Baby LeRoy, Paramount’s infant star, who is supporting Dorothea Wieck and Alice Brady. The picture is full of interest from start to finish and cannot fail to appeal. The supporting films have been well chosen, and altogether the programme is an outstanding one. BRITISH COMEDY One of the most charming comedy films for many months is at the Regent Theatre on Wednesday, and tor a change the comedy is of character rather than action. “General John Regan’’ is an adaptation of George A. Birmingham’s Irish story of a village which erected a statue to a famous soldier-son who actually only existed in the fertile imagination of a practi-cal-joking American tourist. Henry Edwards plays “the light-hearted Dr. O'Grady,’’ who takes up the American’s joke and persuades the whole village of Ballymoy that it gave birth to a general who liberated Bolivia. JUNGLE ENCOUNTERS FRANK BUCK AT STATE The film version of Frank Buck's latest trip to the jungle in search of wild beasts to capture is now showing at the State Theatre and is more than equal to “Bring Them Buck Alive.’’ ‘Wild Cargo.'’ shows the intrepid Buck in Malaya and ho has many stirring encounters with black panthers, elephants, wild buffalo, orangoutangs, cobras and snakes. In the whole film there is only one killing bi man. when Buck himself is attacked by a ■ panther and. after a struggle -vitl; it, 1 has to shoot it to save himself. AnI other great scene depicts a fight to death between a python and a black •anther. Struggle despcrar.'lv timveh 'lie panther does the huge snako si iw'v craps its length around its enemy •i. I crushes it to death \niong the most novel scenes is one ■bowing a tree panther high up in the I branches. Buck has his men spread s I steel uet below it and then shouts the

branches through so that the panther falls into the net and is captured. The picture is lull of dramatic encounters and hairbreadth escapes from death, but humour is provided by the antics of the ever comic moi keys and “all-in’’ wrestling matches between a baby bear and its playmates. It is just the type of picture that the children enjoy as much as the parents, and it has definite instructive value. “MORNING GLORY.” One of 'the greatest pictures of the year comes to the State to-morrow—-‘‘Morning Glory,” starring the incomparable actress, Katherine Hepburn, who is supported by Douglas Fairbanks jun. and Adolphe Menjou. The picture came near to winning the last Motion Picture Academy award and Miss Hepburn’s performance has been acclaimei by critics everywhere.