AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 236, 18 September 1936, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS

STATE THEATRE “THE COUNTRY BEYOND.” Adapted from James Oliver Curwood’s thrilling novel, “The Country Beyond,” now at the State, presents Buck as a heroic dog who helps a “mountie” bring a killer to justice and find romance in the trackless North woods. Eugene Forde directed the picture, ably adapted by scenarist Lamar Trotti, and produced under the supervision of Sol M. Wurtzel. Rochelle Hudson has the leading feminine role in the picture, with Paul Kelly, Robert Kent, Alan Hale and Alan Dinehart prominent in the all-star supporting cast. Buck’s savage enemy is a Great Dane named Prince, and the brilliantly staged battle to the death between these two is the dramatic highspot of the story. To-mororw’s attraction at the State will be “Private Number,” starring Robert Taylor and Loetta Young, with a brilliant supporting cast, including Patsy Kelly, Basil Rathbone and Jane Darwell. Among the choice selection of supporting pictures is “In a Monastery Garden,” a gorgeously-coloured film that should not be missed. REGENT THEATRE “STREET SINGER’S SERENADE.” “Street Singer’s Serenade,” which commenced screening at the Regent to-day, is sparkling deliguiful entertainment, based on the real-life stories of its two world-popular costars, Anna Neagle, whose rise to the starring heights began as a chorus girl, and Arthur Tracy, the original “Street Singer,” whose sensational climb to fame is eno of the greatest romances of ths entertainment world. Lavishly and spectacularly produced to the merry rhythm of irresistible song and dance hits, “Street Singer’s Serenade” has been acclaimed overseas as “The Happiness Picture of 1936.” Tracy has recorded ten numbers for the film, one the well-known aria, “La Donna e Mobile” from “Rigoletto,” and the other specially written for him by Harry Woods, Hoffman, Sigler and Goodhardt. They comprise an amazing variety of material which should display Tracy’s voice to best advantage. Including a number of ballads, he has recorded a lullaby, a serenade, an Indian lyrie, a tango, and a hot jazz number, under the titles of “Nirewana” —“Celebratin’,” “Stay Awhile,” “Stranded,” "Whistling Waltz” (destined to be the song sensation of the year), “Street Singer’s Serenade,” “Sandman’s Serenade,” and “Farewell, Sweet Senorita” —a feast of popular music which makes the film the most delightful of its kind ever presented on the screen. There will be the usual high-class supports. COSY THEATRE

“TROUBLE IN PARADISE’’

The brilliant and witty comedy, “Trouble in Paradise,” is now enjoying a short return season at the Cosy Theatre. A wealth of talent was secured for this production, including Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles and Edward Everett Horton, and as they are ideally cast in the sauciest and wittiest eomedy ever imagined it becomes a riot of fun from start to finish.

“Road Gang,” the Warner Bros, production scheduled as the feature attraction at the Cosy Theatre to-morrow is a revelation of the terrible conditions existing in a penal institution. It is said to carry all the dynamic force of “I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,” and the rugged picturesqueness of “Black Fury.” The picture is one of stark realismfi set in two locales; the first the prison farm, where human beings are subjected to medieval persecution; the second in the Blackfoot mines, where recalcitrant convicts are sent. Donald Woods and Carlyle Moore, Jr., have the two principal convict roles. Entirely innocent of any crime they are framed by men, whom Woods, a newspaper correspondent, threatened to expose.

MUNICIPAL THEATRE TWO THRILLERS “Green Eyes,” the new Chesterfield picture at the Municipal Theatre, is said to present a unique idea in mystery dramas. Unlike any other murder story the screen has yet seen, “Green Eyes” offers two distinctly different solutions to the mystery that surrounds the strange murder of Stephen Kester. As in all mystery stories there are several suspects, oilier than the two suggested above, and, as the story develops, there is much evidence to cast suspicion upon each of them. Each is eliminated in turn, however, until only the two remain. It is at this point in the plot, that “Green Eyes” takes the unusual twist that made the story a best-seller when it was published under the title, “The Murder of Stephen Kester.” Both solutions are presented. Both come as distinct surprises, and both are technically flawless. Obviously, of course, both can not be correct, and it is said that the author has resorted to another innovation in eliminating one of them. Also showing is “Police Car 17” starring Tim McCoy. This is a real thriller dealing with Department of Justice men and their hunt for a gaolbreaker.