AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. TO-NIGHT. “ KELLY THE SECOND/' “Kelly the Second,” a new Hal Roach feature-length comedy is to be shown j at the Princess Theatre to-night, it has the punch of a. Joe Louis the colour [ of a Dempsey and the finesse of a Tunney. Featuring such popular screen personalities, as Patsy Kelly, Charley Jhasc Pert Kclton, Edward Brophy, Guinn “Big Boy” Williams, Harold ( Huber, Ataxic Rosonbloom olid others, u he story has to do with the adventures , of Patsy Kelly, who is the sweetheart 1 trainer of Cecil Callahan (Guinn “.Big Bay Williams), a truck driver who becomes a professional lighter. Interspersed throughout the story, which skillfully combines rumour, romance and thrills, are. sufficient gags to tab the production a conmdy. Directed by Gus Meins, ••Kelly the Second” brings Patsy Kelly to the screen in her first feature-length picture for Hal Poach although she has previouslp been scon iu eight full-length films for other producers. The east as a whole is excellent. Also News, Grime Doesn’t- Pay Series, and Our Gang comedy. EVERYBODY’S PICTURES. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. “PETRIFIED FOREST.” ■Robert Emmet. Sherwood’s stage hit. “The. Petrified Forest,” which ran all . last season on Broadway to crowded houses, eome s to the Princess Theatre on Wednesday in the screen version produced by Warner Bros. Leslie > Howard and Bette Da.'.s, who pave su--h sterling peri'ornumt •■•s in *1 | Knman Bondage” are mt-ain playing the stellar roles in r hi.s picture. 1 l; >e I 1 i re supported by a brilli i it east win *h include? Genevieve Tobin, Dick horan, i Humphrey Bogart, Joseph Sawyer and others. The story is set in the picturesque and colourful background of the Arizona desert, the scenes taking place in and about a wayside ga s station and j eating house a few miles from the real , Petrified Forest. Jn this strange locale are gathered a group of the world’s mis, '.•fibs held there hy a band of killers who 1 are hiding from a posse searching lor them, awaiting their chance oi escape over the border into Mexico. , Also News, Comedy, Travolta Ik, Car- . toon. REGENT theatre. TO-NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. DOUBLE STAB BILL, i “Here Comes Trouble,” and “Every Saturday Night.” A luxury liner on the bounding main is tlit* scene, and its cargo-of passengers | and crow are the actors in the delightful comedy-drama. “Here Comes i frouble,” which comes to-night to {.lie. Regent Theatre with Pan! Kelly, Sam-' my Cohen and Arline Judge heading its cast as Fox stars. Love above docks—intrigue between —coal-hole comedy bei 1 n w— all mixed up in a storm of I laughter. | ' •■Evert* Saturday Night,” one of tbo happiest pictures oi the year is a hilari-j oils comedy drama of a horse and buggy, ( lad driven frantic, b.v a gang of 1930 j streamlined slep-on-tlic-gas kids. The ( star cast includes June Lang, Thomas Peek. Jed Prouty and a quartette of , 1 youngsters • Kenneth Howell, A\illian.i n, June Carlson and George Ernest , (eleven year old star of “Too Many J Parents” as .Phillip .Steward. Fox A us-1 tralian Newsreel also screening showing rail-ear blown off track in fierce gale at Wairarapa.