AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 57, 19 February 1935, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE TAUBER IN “BLOSSOM TIME” Richard Tauber’s first English picture ►-the most enchanting romance ever produced on stage or screen —screens at the Regent Theatre to-day. The great Tauber is at his very best in •‘Blossom Time”; there is a charming romance in the picture and delightful settings of rare beauty. Tauber plays the part of the composer, Franz fcchubert, and has S 3 support Jane Baxter, Athene Seyler aud Paul Graetz. The first of the “New Era’’ Empire entei A aii‘uients this picture will remain the standard by which all others will inevitably be judged. “Blossom Time,’’ the fragrant love story of Franz Schubert, with Richard Tauber as the great, big-hearted composer, gloriously singing (in English) eight delightful tongs: “Thine Is My Heart’’ (“Impatience’’), “Love Lost For Evermore,” “Faith In Spring,” “Red Roses,” ••Serenade,” •’Hark! Hark! the Lark!” “March Militaire,” “Once There Lived a Lady Fair.” A century has rolled by since the genius of Franz Schubert first enthralled a music-loving world. To-day, as if to celebrate this centenary event, another genius—Richard Tauber—the golden-voiced tenor, arises to perpetuate the art of the great composer by the miracle of the audible Streep. Suffice is to say taat tms wi v.ol love •tory of Schubert —this miracle of fragrant melody and romance, will be forever ’midst the most cherished memories ot all who sc© it Also fccreenmg is the colour cartoon “The Braie Tin Soldier”. STATE THEATRE ‘‘THE FOUNTAIN.” The test of a woman’s emotions during the late conflict between nations is the theme behind Ann Harding’s HKO-Radio starring picture, “The Fountain,” at the State to-day. Torn between two worthy loves, Ann Harding essays the role of a girl interned in neutral Holland in company with a schoolday sweetheart, whilu her husband is at the front. When the husband returns, a disabled shell ot I his former self, love induced by pity I rlashc.' with her more spontaneous love I

to rend her heart unmercifully. Play- I ing opposite Ann Harding is Brian I Aherne, talented star of the English I screen, who is seen as a British avia- I tor who rekindles in the breast of the woman a passion long repressed. Paul | Lukas plays the sympathetic role of the i husband who returns to find the woman he adores estranged by an inevitable romance. “The Fountain,” a literary masterpiece by Charles Morgan, English critic-author, endeavours to illustrate that the greatest thing in life is the attainment of spiritual nobility. In the progress of the suspenseful triangular love complication, each of the principals vies to accomplish a sacrifice. After the woman seems to have won with the greatest sacrifice, her husband's death relinquishes her to her despairing lover. “WALTZES FROM VIENNA.” “Waltzes From Vienna”, the Gau- ; mont-British production which com- ' mcnces at the State Theatre, to-mor- ' row, Wednesday, brings to the screen onco again Jessie Matthews, charming | heroine of “The Good Companions”, I “Evergreen” and “Friday the Thir- I teenth”. Like these productions. I | “Waltzes From Vienna”, has been i filmed on the same lavish scale, and | Jessie Matthews again shows her fine I ability and personality to advantage. | ARCADIA THEATRE “SHIP OF WANTED MEN” AND j “THE FIGHTING FOOL” ‘ Sb’p ot Wanted Men’’, current attraction at the Arcadia Theatre, Hast- j mgs, breathes the tang of the salt sea in a dramatic story which hurtles to a ' smashing climax. Ihe picture deals ; with a gang of criminals—five men and I one woman —who charter a ship oil , which they can flee from the long arm | of the law to a small island off the i coast of Central America. While sail- : mg toward their goal they pass a luxurious yacht from which a girl , jumps into the sea. She is picked up I by the crew of the criminal ship and I from this point the plot develops rapid- > ly A high-light is the fight between i the captain and the mate. To say I more would be to spoil the suspense in j which the audience is kept. For spirit- . ed entertainment, full of action, ad- | venture and thrills, “Ship of Wanted Men" can bo strongly recommended. : Dorothv Sebastian and Fred Kohler load a strin g cast. There '» a good t supporting progiaiunic

I DOUBLE-FEATURE BILL. I A double feature programme is the I attraction which commences at the I Arcadia to-morrow, Wednesday. “Murder on the Second Floor”, a i British production, stars Pat Paterson and John Longden, and, as the title conveys, deals with a baffling murder. “The Expert”, with Chic Sale and Dickie Moore, is a charming story of the love of an old man for a tiny ragamuffin, and their adventures and final smoothing-out of all their troubles makes an excellent story, which is assured to touch the hearts of all who see it. CCSY fHEATRE. "T “STRIKE ME LUCKY, Hoy Rene, better known as “Mo,” is probably the Australian theatre’s best known comedian, and “Strike Me Lucky”, which screens at the Cosy Theatre to-day, will serve to show that Mo is also Australia’s premier movie comedian. Laughter, thrills, romance and stirring human interest arc all blended in this, his latest picture. Yvonne Banvard and Lorraine Smith are the two leading ladies in the film. Pamela Bevan plays, or, rather, “lives” the role of Miriam. Burnett, the little girl who wanders from home to “got pennies for her daddy,” who, incidentally, is a very rich man. She is befriended by “Mo,” who shares with her his bumble pittance, and event'* - ”” restores her to her people, under tndelusion all the time that they are in lamentable circumstances. “LOOKING FOR I ROUBLE.” Hie screen's most popular “wisccrackers,” Jack- Oakie and Spencer I racy head the cast of “Looking For Trouble,” winch will screen at the Cosy Theatre to-morrow. The story concerns a pair of “trouble shooters.” and Spencer Tracy and Jack Oakie make the pair perhaps the finest team that has appeared in pictures for a long time. Constance Cummings is the charming heroine of “Looking For Trouble,” aud unwittingly she happens to land right in the middle ot all the trouble Spencer and Jack find as they go put on repair jobs