ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 2, 2 December 1931, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

ROSY THEATRE. “YOUNG DONOVAN’S KlD.’’ A Now York East Side Robin Hood, who killed as lightly as ho kissed; a parish priest who packed a Bible in his left hand and a wallop in his right; a beautiful young girl of gentle breeding in love with a notorious gunman; a seven-year-old boy steeped in the wickedness of adult gang life; a narcotic fiend with a mad desire to teach others to use his pernicious drug. These are only a few of the amazing characters with which Rex Beach’s classic novel, “Big Brother,” is peopled, the Radio pictures’ version of which, titled “Young Donovan’s Kid,” is now at the Kosy Theatre. Interpreting the role of tiro gang leader is Richard Dix, who again covers himself with screen glory. Jackie Cooper, seven-year-old boy who leaped to stardom overnight in the title role of “Skippy,” plays the incorrigible Midge Murray. Flaying the priest is Frank Sheridan, a grand old Irish trouper of fifty years’ dramatic experience. Marion Shilling, the beautiful daughter of the noted 6tage director-pro-ducer, Edward Shilling, with a half dozen leading screen roles to her credit, plays opposite Dix. Cast as “Cokoy Joe” is the sterling, vigorous actor, Boris Karloff. Fred Kelsey is the laughable, “square-too,” Cdllins. Bob Wilber, Congressional Medal of Honour man, plays the murderous Monk Manilla.

AT THE REGENT. “ESCAPE” BOASTS REMARKABLE ARRAY OF TALENT. In these days of superlatives the oftenheralded “all-star” movie cast has become a.most negligible in meaning. But the expression can bo truthfully used in connection with the players to be seen in “Escape,” the film version of the famous Galsworthy play, which opens to-night at the Regent Theatre. “Escape” boasts an array of unusually brilliant artists. Each of the 16 featured players is a performer of note. Basil Dean, producer of the film, determined to do full justice to the first Galsworhy play to reach the talking screen. To accomplish this purpose he spent vjeeks in selecting tho players. The final cant reads like a long list of outstanding English and American stage and screen stars. Gerald du Maurier, most popular player on tho English stage, plays tho leading role. As Captain Denant he creates one of the most brilliant, characterisations of the past decade. Edna Beet, favourite of New York and London theatro audiences. plays a featured feminine role. Mabel Poulton, one of the most promising of young film players and star of "The Constant Nymph”; lan Hunter, of “Syncopation” and “Easy Vitruo” fame; Gordon Harker and S. J. Warmington, veteran film players; Lewis Casson, sterling legitimate stago "actor; Austin Trevor, Madeleine Carroll and David Hawthorne round out tho cast of featured players. ELECTION RESULTS.

Election results will be announced from tho Regent Thoatrc screen to-night.