AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 232, 13 September 1934, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

COSY THEATRE "SIX OF A KIND” Charlie Huggies, Mary Boland, W. (’. Fields, Alison Skiprvorth and George Burns and Gracie Allen, Paramount’s leading comedians, are responsible for the funniest picture of the season, ‘‘Six of a Kind”, now playing at the Cosy Theatre. The story concerns the ridiculous adventures which overtake two simple souls who start out on their second honeymoon. Ruggles and Mary Boland start on their second honeymoon. To defray expenses, she advertises for another couple to drive with them, and Burns and Allen with a large dog answer the advertisement. As an employee of a bank, Ruggles innocently gets mixed up in a bank swindle, and he has the valueless stock of a defunct gold mine thrown in his lap. Then, with George Burns and Gracie Allen throwing laughs in his way all along, and with W. C. Fields and Alison Skipworth waiting at the end ot their journey, his second honeymoon turns into a complicated mixture of laughs and troubles STATE THEATRE, HASTINGS. •‘FOUR FRIGHTENED PEOPLE” ‘‘Four Frightened People”, which is now playing at the State Theatre, should hold the audience spellbound with one eye-tilling surprise aftei another. Two .men ami two women escape from a Dutch steamer on which bubonic plague has broken out and start their journey to civilisation through the Malay jungle. Their gradual reversion to the primitive provides some highly novel situations. Claudette Colbert is outstanding with one of the most colourful roles of her career, that of a prudish school teacher whom the two men at first consider in their wav When the jungle causes her to blossom into a wild, beautiful creature, the men start fighting over her. Herbert Marshall and William Gnrgan give splendid performances as the marooned rubber chemist and newspaper correspondent who fight oves Claudette’s charms. while Mnry Boland, in a dolt comedy characterisation. walks away with many of the honours of the picture. Leo Carrillo displays splendid ability in the role of a half caste guide. REGENT THEATRE "SORRELL AND SON” A classic of literature, and ti classic of the silent si*r" 'ii. Warwick Deeding s "Sorrell and Son” is now before the public at the Regent Theatrelids time in the form oi a talking lilm made by . British and Dominions at Boreham Wood. The star of the silent version, H. B. 'Warner, plays the _ part of Sorrell once more in the talkie version, thus making his British film debut. He brings to the talkie a new attraction—namely, a rich and eloquent English speaking voice, which, supplement ing his complete mastery of screen technique and his ability to register all shades of emotion, brings it about that his characterisation of Sorrell stands out undoubtedly as one of the great pictures of the year. The action of the story covers London and two country districts, known as Staunton and Wistonbury. The country scenes were shot in the Cotswold village of Broadway, Worcestershire, while the Pelican Hotel, where Sorrell finds fortune, is actually a beautiful Broadway hotel, dating back to the seventeenth century—the famous Lvgon Arms, in this way one of the most beautiful stretches of English countryside figures in the film, and adds considerably to its pictorial value. ARCADIA THEATRE JACK OAKIE COMEDY Waterfront sweethearts spar with the Navy's ace fighters in a spicy, racy comedy, “Sailor Be Good”, at the Arcadia Theatre to-night, with Vivienne Osborne as Red, the sailor sweetheart of Jormsy, played by Jack Oakie. T|ie story unreels side-splitting laughs with touches of romantic drama. Red was another port girl, until Jonesy debarked from the U.S.S. Tacoma and chose her. A gin-drinking, hard-fighting tar, be never trained for his forthcoming boxing bouts. Red fell so deeply in love with him that she was willing to give him up if it meant no drink and serious training for the Pacific Fleet, championship—his only real chance at success Miss Osborne is a sincere rough-and-ready sailors' girl. Jack Oakie is his usual sparkling self, revealing his smile-provoking teeth when not cracking wise with friends or with Miss Osborne.