AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERBODY’S PICTURES.

TjQ-NIGHT, SATURDAY, MATINEE! AND EVENING.

“STRIKE ME PINK.”

Tlio outstanding comedy hit of the new film season ‘‘Strike Me Pink,” EcU die C'antoor’s sixth annual screen musical ,for Samuel Goldwyn opens to-night at'the Princess Theatre with Ethel Merman. Sally Eilers, Parkyakarkus, the • r! reoh dialectician of radio fame, Wil- •' liam 'Erawley, and the loveliest Goldwyb Girls ever aiding and abetting the Proceedings. Eddie is cast as a timid fellow who takes a correspondence course in, acquiring a dominating peiv - Venality and becomes manager of Dreamlnad Amusement Park, Here he becomes involved with a gang of slot machine racketeers who have put every previous manager on the spot. The ■'gangsters learn that Eddie secretly adores' a glamorous night club star, plnved '.by Ethel Merman. This lady is really ihfe wife of ope of their number and thev use her as a “come-on” to trick Eddie into installing their fake slot machines. Sally Eilers, seen as Eddie’s- Dreamland sweetheart; Harry Parke, better known as the Greek dialectician Parkyakarkus of radio fame,’ Wiliam Frawlcy and the Goldwyn girls are featured beside Ethel Merman in the comedy which Norman Taurog directed'. ‘ Also Springbok-Wellington football- match.

REGENT THEATRE.

Tp-NIGHT. : TO-NIGHT. ■ JPE BROWN IN “POLO JOE”

Jo© E. Brown, king of the laughmakers, comes to the Regent Theatre to-night, in his newest Warner Bros. nbinedy|hit, “Polo Jo'e.” Joe has been everything in' the ,sport world. —-prize fighter, racer, circus clown, high jumper, hike rider, hoofer, acrobat—and now he coine s as a synthetic polo player. Excellent supporting programme.

CJELERPATING PARAMOUNT WEEK V: SATURDAY 10.30 a.m.

“POPEYE PARTY.

-• i • f i , “MANY HAPPY RETURNS.”

-‘.‘Many. Happy Returns”. Paramount’s new tuneful comedy, featuring Guy ; Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, Abieriea’s leading musical combination, George Burns and Grane; Allen, is the feature attraction for tin “Popeye” party at the Regent Theatre to-morrow morning at 10.30 a.m. In the supporting cast are George Barbier, Joan Marsh and Franklyn PangIkVrnAThe picture, directed by Norman McLeod, .with music by Sam Coslow- and Arthur Johnston, tells the: story bf a love crakv girl, played by Miss Alien, who wrecks her father’s departriient store ,to establish a bird sanctuary and destroys valuable radio contracts. Desperate the father has her psycho-analy-sed but she drives the psycho-analyst ~.wzv, 4r. Inst resort to keep her out of''mischief the father pars a radio-an nouncer thirty thousand dollars, to -norrv her and take her a wav from the rt.v. The ensuing complications make ’J-ns one of the finest comedies produced for s ome considerable time. * SATURDAY, MATINEE AND EVEN-1 . f ;■/ ING. “GO west YOUNG MAN.” Mae West adds a surprise torch to Kr- Pornmoimt starring vehicle; .-wAfYnw" Man,” whHi comes to the Regent Theatre on Saturday, «lion she pounds out ' some red hot rhythms on 'an ancient srrand piano in v scene with Warren William. It is the first tjrqe the Western piano technique has bien utilised in motion picture. The playing is as distinctive as the s+ar’s “swivel swing” walk and figW e; Miss West, portraying tbe role of a motion picture star on a personal appearance tour, temporarily stopping over at yi farm tourist homo; is heard nlayinrr a “corny” ’bit of “Et. Louis Blues.” And, jqst to add to the hilarity, she interpolated , the old tear jerkcr, “Hearts and Flov-ers” to punctuate fervent and serious plea by Warren William, who acts as her press agent.