AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT AND TUESDAY,

“NEW MOON.”

Two of the world’s greatest voices and two of the screen's most vivid personalities are seen in “Mew Moon”, Motro-Goldwyn-Mayer’y transcription of the stage hit, Jco-starri,ng Laiwreuda Tibbe;t and Grace Moore, and now playing at the Princess Theatre. “Mew Moon” in its picture form is far different from the original stage version although preserving all its salient parts and its most popular songs. The locale, changed to Turkestan, permits a sweeping colourful narrative of io\ e and intrigue, romance and adventure in which tense drama vies with a delicate story of the young lieutenant and his princess sweetheart. The songs do not detract from the action of the plot, hating been cleverly woven in as an integral part of the drama itself. The charming music of the scage success, including the never-to-he-lorgotten “Lover Como Back to Me;” “Wanting You,” “One Kiss” and “Stouthearted Men” is augmented with two outstanding songs, “What is your price Madam?” and “The Farmer’s Daughter” for which Herbert Stotlnxrt and Clifford Grey may be complimented.

REGENT THEATRE

TO-NIGHT, FINAL SESSION “SING, BABY, SING!”

Whooping with laughs, tingling with tunes, sizzling with swing and ablaze with names, “Sing, Baby Sing,” shows at the Regent Theatre to-night. With Alice Faye, Adolphe Menjou, Gregory Ratoff, Ted Healy, Patsy Kelly, Michael Whalen and a trio of newcomers the Fitz Brothers, “Sing, Baby, Sing” starts off in a gale.of laughter that increases steadily until it is a raging tornado of mirth at the rib-cracking climax Also showing an excellent programme of supports.

TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.

“LONELY ROAD.”

Clive Brook’s latest A.T.P. production “Lonely Road,” presents this world-popular star as Hollywood never visioned him. For here, at last, is the real Brook in the role lie was born to play—an ex-commander of the British Sutymrjrine Seri ire, working hiwid-in-glove With Scotland Yard to capture a daring gang of operating on the English coast. When the picture opens we find him, a rejected suitor, drinking heavily to drown his sorrows at his town club, with.. only a blood-red rose, a last gift from the girl he loves, a s a companion. Later, still, decidedly the worse of liquor, lio climbs heavily into his car, which, with a deep-throat-ed roar, speeds into the night—-destina-tion unknown! After a hair-raising drive, he accidentally stumbles upon a. gang landing contraband machine guns labelled “Carpet Sweepers,” and here; hegin s one of the most exciting phases of this breath-taking drama, that Will keep you thrilled to your fin-ger-tips, until the- final fade-out.