AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 79, 14 March 1936, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MUNICIPAL THEATRE TWO BIC ATTRACTIONS “She Loves a Uniform,” at the Municipal, is the story of a flighty young heiress with a penchant for uniforms. So fond is she of any kind of uniform and the men who happen to be inside them, that her father is continually buying off ushers, policemen and bus drivers to keep them from marrying into the family. “The Virginian” is back again with all its thirlls, romance, danger, thundering herds and yelling, hard-riding cowboys. As a change from the modern ‘drawing-room dramas’, “The Virginian” comes as a fresh breath from the outdoors, with a story that has become a screen classic. “The Virginian” was first released in 1929 and has an all-star cast composed of Gary Cooper, who plays the title role, Walter Huston, Richard Arlen, Alary Brian, Eugene Fallette and many others.

REGENT THEATRE

“CHINA SEAS” “China Seas” is the title of the stirring drama which opens to-day at the Regent Theatre, with Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery in the principal roles. A s it; title implies, the story deals with the adventures of a group of white people on a storm wracked ship off the south-eastern coast of Asia. Perilled by typhoons and pirate raids, they work out a strange destiny in the “last frontier” of the sea. With the stars in this Irving G. Thalberg production for Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer is a notable cast that includes Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, Dudley Digges, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Benchley, William Henry, Lillian Bond, and many others. Tay Garnett directed.

COSY THEATRE

GINGER ROGERS: “IN PERSON” After her splendid success in “Star of Midnight,” Ginger Rogers returns to the State Theatre to-day in her latest starring picture “In Person,” and with a first class supporting cast, including George Brent, Alan Mowbray Grant Mitchell, Samuel S. Hinds, John Breslau, Louis Alason and Spencer Charters. There is a splendid supporting programme. The story of “In Person” has an unusual twist to it, and Alisa Rogers’s followers will enjoy her in this new type of presentation. It lacks nothing in drama, and in addition there are songs and dances for those “fans” who remember her in “Gay Divorcee,” “Roberta” and “Top Hat,” while for those who like to see her in romantic comedy there is that, too. “In Person” is n clever combination of drama romance, comedy and music—one which has been received with enthusiasm wherever it has been shown in New Zealand.

STATE THEATRE

“MOSCOW NIGHTS.” “Moscow Nights” at the Cosy Theatre is a film to be seen. It is the first British picture of the famous Continental star, Harry Baur, and it is the first starring vehicle of the bcautifll Penelope Dudley Ward. Anthony Asquith bus directed tho film with skill and originality. The love interest is provided by an unusual triangle—that of a rich old peasant in love with a beautiful young society girl, who out of pity for him ignores the call of youth in the guise of «■ handsome young Russian otiicer. Unwittingly these three people are swept up in a tangled web of espionage, and it is not until the officer is standing on trial for his life that she realises how much he means to her and begs the old man’s help. Hairy Baur, Laurence Olivier and Penelope Dudley Ward give inspired performances, and brilliant support is given by Athene Seyler, Morton Selten, Robert Cochran and Hay Patrie.