ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 28, 3 January 1931, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

AT THE REGENT. “SHOW OF SHOWS” SUPERB HOLIDAY ENTERTAINMENT. Continuing for three more nights at the Regent Theatre “Show of Shows” the Warner Bros, and Vitaphone super-revue in technicolour lives up to the extravagant claims made for. it by the producers. It is not only in the staggering number of stars of stage and screen in the cast, nor in the half a thousand supporting people, nor in the magnificont settings, the melodies, the dances, the witty dialogue, the colours of life in which it is filmed; it is the combination of all these elements. Every sort of stage and screen entertainment has its high moment in this melodious panorama. John Barrymore gives the touch of the tragic, in his soliloquy of the Duke of Gloucester —later King Richard 111. —from “King Henry VI.” France is represented by two of her most captivating personalities. Irene Bordoni —with ton pianists and ten ladies dressed a la Bordoni —sings songs in her charmingly broken English—and Georges Carpentier, Patsy Ruth Miller, and Alice White go through some amazing calisthenics, all in the shadow of the famous Eiffel Tower. Tho Adagio Dancers arc thrilling in their graceful acrobatic feats and negro hallelujah singers, 150 of them, add to the glories of tho scintillating “Lady Luck” grand finale in which tho principals are the resplendent Betty Compson and Alexander Gray, Beatrice Lillie, of the London music halls, does some of her inimitable clowning. Thero is a “Bicycle Built for Two” nuinbor, and many young stars and starincs; a pirate number with the most bumptious of the heavies in swashbuckling gear, and there are gorgeous songs. Only the eyes and ears can catch tho splendour of this kaleidoscope of all the entertainment world. It is indeed “Tho advent of a new vent in pictures.” Plans are located at the Central Booking Office, ’phone 7178. PALACE THEATRE. “GOOD INTENTIONS” AND 1930 MELBOURNE CUP. Edmund Lowe and Marguerite Churchill are tho featured players in the alltalking drama of crookland, “Good Intentions,” which is to bo screened for a limited season of threo days, commencing to-day. 'The story is as follows: —David Cresson. a man of mysterious wealth, loves Helen Rankin, a society girl. "Flash” Norton insists that Cresson be present when “his friends” call that evening. Cresson agrees when Miss Rankin cancels her engagement. That evening Cresson gives Helen a jewelled necklace. He then receives his expected “friends/’ tho gangstors who have robbed Cyril Holt, and is revealed as their rotirod leader. Cresson advises them to give up the game. Loading his orchestra at the Club Nocturne, Norton sees Helen wearing Cresson’s necklace. She is accompanied by Richard Holt, nephew of the robbed man. Seeing a fitting revenge in the robbery of Cresson’s girl friend. Norton calls the gang. While driving home, Helen and ■ Richard are crowded off the road and robbed. The gangsters take the jewels to Cresson. Norton arrives. When Richard enters to tell of the robbery, Norton is sent to an adjoining room. He quickly re-enters hands over head, covered by Liberty Red, who blurts forth his grievance at being double-crossed and reveals Cresson’s identity and past to Richard. Cresson gains control of the situation when Red is disarmed by Crcsson’s butler. The rest is a thriller. A special added attraction on the programme is the 1930 Melbourne Cup. Months before the nice wags of tho turf called it "Phar Lap's Melbourne Cup,” which luckily turned oht to be correct. The whole race is shown and one can sit in one’s seat and imagine one is at Fleriiington racecourse. The race is described in sound and talk, and altogether this film is one of tho greatest reproductions of a horse race that has ever been recorded by a camera. Intending patrons should make a point of reserving their scats, as tho plan is rapidly filling. KOSY THEATRE. AN OUTSTANDING PROGRAMME. The football game in “The Sophomore” is different from uny yet pictured on the screen. The hero goes into the game at the crucial moment, but instead of making a sensational play ho is knocked out in the first scrimmage and carried off the field. A few moments later, however, he saves tho game in a sensational scene in which he tackles his team’s captain as the latter is making a thrilling run in tho wrong direction. This is a climax that will bring a gasp from any audience. Ernest Torrence, who plays an important character role in “Officer O’Brien,” Pathe’s all-dia-logue drama starring William Boyd, which also will be at tho Kosy Theatre to-day, is one actor who can truthfully lay claim to an international education. He commenced at Edinburgh Academy, continued his studies at Stuttgart Academy, in Germany, and later attonded the Royal Academy in London. Most of hie stage careor, prior to entering motion pictures, was in America. Twelve chapters comprise tho now all-talking serial which commenced at the Kosy to-day. It is “The Indians arc Coming!” One chapter will be screened every Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. Once a dread cry that paled men’s faces and made women pray, now the title that means for local residents an epochal entertainment such as has not heretofore been attempted on the talking screen, showing thousands of Indians pitted in warfare against hardy pioneers. Tho featured players are Colonel Tim McCoy, Allene Ray, Francis Ford, Don Francis, Edmund Cobb and Charlie Royal.