AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 145, 4 June 1936, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

COSY THEATRE MUSICAL ANO DRAMA “Millions in the Air,” the farcical romance which Paramount has turned out as a gentle jibe at prevailing radio amateur programmes, showing to day at the Cosy Theatre and by virtue of its variety, has everything that is needed to make first-class entertainment. Wendy Barrie, the talented British across, and John Howard, a new and reIresliing screen personality have the romantic leads, while Eleanore Whitney is the dancing star. Also on the programme is “Eight Girls in a Boat,” starring Dorothy Wilson and Douglass Montgomery. The scene is laid in a boarding-school and the story is as novel as it is entertaining. On Saturday next the international musical epidemic, “The Music Goes Round and Around,” with Ha.ly Richmond, Rachel Hudson and Walter Connelly, will be screened. REGENT THEATRE “KOENIGSMARK” “Koenigsmark,” the first of the C. M. Wooif Anglo-French productions which .has won the enthusiastic admiration of critics the world over, will be presented at the Regent Theatre today. Brilliantly adapted from Pierre Benoit’s unforgettable drama of love and intrigue at the Court of Lautenbourg, “Koenigsmark” has lovely Elissa Landi as its bright and particular star, while John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay play opposite her, with Marcella Rogez, Frank Vosper and Allan Jeayes heading the huge supporting cast. The setting is a small Ruritarian kingdom and the story deals with the life of Princess Aurore who is forced into a marriage of convenience with the Archduke Rudolphe. MUNICIPAL THEATRE DOUBLE FEATURE BILL Story of the romance between a beautiful stage star and the private detective hired by a jealous “sugardaddy” to protect her from rivals is “Her Bodyguard”, romantie comedy featuring Edmund Lowe and Wynne Gibson, which screens to-night at the Municipal Theatre. Its action is set in New York, and its heroine is a stage star. The second attraction is “The Eagle and the Hawk”, starring Frederic March, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard and Jack Oakie. It is an air picture, with many authentic sequences. STATE THEATRE DUAL ATTRACTIONS “His Night Out,” presenting a hard-boiled, devil-may-care Edward Everett Horton—a man who defies police cross-examinations and third degress, the wrath of his employer and the death threats of gangsters, will be shown to-day at the State Theatre. Supporting Horton in the unusual characterisation are Irene Hervey, Robert *icWade and Jack Laßue. Horton starts out as a pill-taking purchasing agent for a chain drug company. Told by quack physician that he’ll die within three months, he starts having fun and getting into plenty of trouble. The second feature is “We’re Only Human,” starring Preston Foster and Jane Wyatt. This is a “crook” picture with many surprising turns to the plot. WILLIAMSON’S COMPANY “FRESH FIELDS” AND “NIGHT MUST FALL”

The box plans will be opened at Fail’s, Hastings, to-morrow morning at nine o’clock for J. C. Williamson’s two “Fresh Fields,’ which is to be staged on Monday night next, and “Night Must Fall,” which it to be produced on Tuesday night. “Fresh Fields” is a brilliantly elever and highly amusing comedy-drama by Ivor Novello, and “Night Must h'aTl' is an intensely dramatic play, with numerous big laughs to relieve its tragic occurences. The fact that the two leading female members of the company are natives of this Dominion has, naturally, invested the approaching season with unusual interest. Mist Ethel 'Morrison, who is a Wellingtonian is, without any doubt, one of the finest actresses on the English-speaking stage to-day, and her appearance is looked forward to by play-goers, not only o.t Australia and New Zealand, but also oj New York and London. It is said that the characters she portrays in “Fresh Fields” and in “Night Must Fall’’ may have been specially created for Miss Morrison.

The other New Zealander in the cotn pany is Miss Elaine Hamill, who has proved herself an outstandingly fine artist and she, too, has scored her best triumphs in “Fresh Fields” and “Night Must Fall.”

Associated with Miss Morrison aud Miss Hamill are such prominent artists as Harvey Adams, Campbell Gopelin, and Katie Towers, all of whom are well and popularly known to play-goers ot New Zealand. Lloyd Lantble is a young actor, who, like Miss Hamill, also has a meteoric career, and although ho has been on the professional stage only for a brief period he is talented and pro ficient enough to take his place iu any London or New York production.