AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 77, 14 March 1935, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

HASTINGS PICTURES ARGADIA THEATRE. J WO BIG PIC 11 KES. Loietta Young and Norman Lo.-ltr the “sweetheart team” of “Play Girl,” are at the Arcadia theatre today in “Week-end Marriage,” which features a large cast of talented players among them George Brent, Vivienne Osborne, Aline MacMahon, Sheila Terry, J Farrell MacDonald, and many others. “Week-end Marriage” brings a blend of drama and comedy i telling a story of a young married couple who find themselves at odds i because the husband earns less than I Ins wife, A fine .job of casting, winch bespeaks excellent entertainment, is evident in the list of players tn “Stranger in Town,” the Warner Bros, picture, also at the Arcadia. “Chic” Sale, Ann Dvorak, David Manners, Noah Beery and Raymond Hatton are in the leading roles. The story of competition between “Chic’s” country store and a chain store which opens in his town allords him an excellent opportunity to deliver the finest characterisation he has yet done on the screen. His is a fighting r01e... a fight of a pioneer against two ir resistible forces. REGENT THEATRE. “LEST WE FORGET.” For beauty and nobility of sentiment and for the uncommon excellence of the acting, “Lest We Forget'’ ’’ which screens at tile Regent Theatre to-day, will take a sure place among the best of the year's films from British studios. It may sincerely be commended to every returned soldier, and to everyone to whom a story of great comradeship, tolerance, and gentle-spiritedness make an emotional appeal. One of the most pleasing aspects of this very fine and moving story is that the sentiment contained in it is kept tar away from all that is maudlin and tawdry, and that although it deals with a War theme, it will bring no agonies to the minds of those who served. Captain Rayner, played bv Stewart Rome, who took the leading part in “The Song oi the Plough,” is caught and cut olt in a shell-hole with two “ranker” comrades, one an Irishman and the other a Welshman. A “Jock” from the 51st. Scottish Division joins them, and Rayner swears that it they are all alive on the same day sixteen years hence they shall meet in ins house in the country. Eventually that meeting takes place, but in Pat’s place comes his son, for Pat has since died. The romantic part oi the story centres about Pat’s son and Rayner's daughter, but that is merely incidental to the delightful comedy and drama woven about the reunion oi these three old comrades. It is rare indeed that one sees anything so supremely’ good and so thoroughly convincing as the actor who plays the part of “laity.” The N.Z. U.S.A. Review urged “all our members not to miss it, as a film of tins nobility of purpose comes all too seldom.” But it is not a picture lor returned men only. It is a picture tor everybody, ft is powerfully dramatic, and yet not by any means lacking in good fun. COSY THEATRE “GRANDAD Rl DD Do you remember that remarkable family, that inimitable bunch of laugh provokers, the Rudds in “On Our Selection”? Well, they’re back again, with an even bigger quota of laughs in Australia’s funniest film “Grandad Rudd,’’ now at the Cosy Theatre. They were funny in their previous picture, but, this time they’ll make you roll off your seat with mirth. To night is the last chance to see this picture. “SING AS M’E GO” Gracie Fields, the Lassie from Lancashire, has one of the biggest foliowings in New Zealand of any star, so there will be rejoicing that her latest picture is coming to the Cosy tomorrow. In “Sing ae. W’e Go,” Gracie, as in all her pictures, introduces a large number of new songs. They are; “lie a Dead but he Won’t Lie Down, “Heaven Will Protect an Honest Girl,” “Out in the Cold, Cold Snow” and “In My Little Bottom Drawer.” The plot of “Sing as We Go” is a happy-go-lucky affair that suits Grade’s style of comedy. She i s out of work and willing to try anything, The first job she does manage to get is that of a fortune teller’s assistant. This is a success until her prophecies become too startling. Then she attempts io qualify as a magician. Her chief appoints her the Vanishing Lady, but she mistakes her exits and entrances and alter vanishing emerges into a cowboy act when they are all shooting off itvol vers. These are only a few of the embarrassing situations into which tue author, J. B. Priesly, manages to get t poor unfortunate Gracie, but everyone of them leads to the amusement of | the public. The cast of this comedy- in- I eludes John Loder and Dorothy Hyson. I STATE THEATRE. — “HELLDORADO ’ 10-DAY. A modern California gold rush is depicted on the screen for the first time in “Helldorado,” Jesse L. Lasky’s spectacular Fox Film production, currently showing at the State I Iheatre. It is a tar cry between a gold rush ot ’49 and one of 1931. In the old days the gold seekers rushed ■ on toot, on horseback, and by carriage. To-day, when gold is reported' discovered, they hop in the family automobile, speed to the location and ■ stake their claims. (nteiest in gold ! mining has been revived as a result I ot the I tilled State’s Government’s order calling m the precious metal. ; Settles similar to those filmed lor "Helldorado” have actually occurred recently m several Calilornia localities. “Helldorado” is the thrilling tale of a band ot modern travellers marooned in a Calilornia ghost town and it is ■ in this picturesque setting that the | 1934 gold rush takes place In the i romantic leads in the picture are j Richard Allen and Madge Evans, with a brilliant supporting cast which includes Ralph Bellamy, Henry B. Walthall, James Gleasau, Helen Jerome Eddy. Stepin Fetchit Ger-

trude Short. Patricia Farr, Stanley Fields and Lucky Hurlic. “HIE WHITE PARADE” At the State Iheatre will be shown “The White Parade,” Starring John Boles and Loretta Young, this is a story dealing with the training of candidates for the nursing profession—telling their trials and disappointments and vividly showing what an heroic breed they are