AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. TO-NIGHT. "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 this evening in the screen version produced by Warner Pros. Leslie Howard and Bette Da-.s, who gave SU"h sterling performances in “* »f Human Bohdage” are again playing

the stellar roles in -•his picture. T'.ie\ i re. supported by a briliint cast vbi.'h includes Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, 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'gay station and eating house a few miles from the. real Petrified Forest. In this strange locale are gathered a group of the world’s misfits, held there by a band of killers who are hiding from a posse searching for them, awaiting their chance of escape over the border into Mexico.

At this strange gathering, Howard, in the role of an unsuccessful author, disillusioned wih life, awakens to the fact that he can become of some use in the world by dying to give the girl lie has suddenly fallen in love with, a chance to realise her thwarted disires. Howard had this same role in the stage production. Miss Davis is the erotic, discontented giru who longs for a fling at life, which her misfit father and her crabbed, miserly grandfather «.lcnv her. Dick Foran will be seen a* a college boy who has been unable to adjust himself to life, but. who ha s an overwhel cing passion for the girl.. . Also News, Comedy, Traveltalk, Cartoon.

REGENT THEATRE. FINAL SESSION TO-NIGHT. DOUBLE STAR FOX BILL. A luxury liner on the bounding main is .the scene, and its cargo of passengers and crew are the actors in the delightful comedy-drama, “Here Comes Trouble,” which conies to-night to the Regent Theatre with Paul Kelly, Sammy Cohen aid Arline Judge heading its cast as Fox stars. Love above decks—intrigue between —coal-llole comedy below- all mixed up in a storm of laughter. “Every Saturday Night,” one of the happiest pictures of the year is a hilarious comedy drama of a horse and buggy, dad driven frantic by a gang of 193 G 'streamlined step-dn-tlie-gas kids'. The star east includes June Lang, Thomas Beck ' Jed Prouty and. a quartette of youngsters: Kenneth Howell, William Mahah, June Carlson and George Ernest (eleven year old star ol "Too Many Parents” as Phillip Stewart). Fox Australian Newsreel also screening showing rail-car blovVn off track in fierce gale at Wairarapa.

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. "ANYTHING GOES." “Anything Goes,’’ coming to-morrow night to Regent Theatre as the feature attraction, is based on the Broadway hit. The popular Cole Porter songs are kept intact to them are added a group of parodies on the theme of “You’re the Top.” Around Crosby are grouped, m addition to the two players mentioned. 'V-vlin, lln«-'n ? end . Grace Bradley, Vr*hii” Tren'-bor and Robert McVVade. Tire giddy aeti m transpires on an ocean liner where Crosby, while in search of romance, is mistaken or a public enemy.