ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 251, 20 September 1933, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

“THE BEST PEOPLE.” The comedy, “The Best People,” which will be staged by tho Palmerston North Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society to-morrow," Friday and Saturday, is a modern play dealing with a problem which is as old as civilisation, but the solution of which is always elusive and therefore ever new. It concerns the efforts of “The Best People” to conserve the future ol their family and to maintain the traditions of the established order. All their schemes go awry. The son Bertie falls in love with a chorus girl and the daughter Marion wishes to associate her future with r „a chauffeur. The horror with which Mr and Mrs Lennox and Mr George Grafton regard these complications may be imagined, but tho authors of this comedy have pictured the emotion of the various characters in a particularly palatable manner. The story points a valuable moral, but it does not attempt to provide a solution except the usual “happy ever after” ending!- Ii gives food for considerable discussion of a serious nature, because it is held by Mrs Lennox that tho “classes” (in' England) cannot inter-marry with success. Her people are, of course, “Tho Best People,’ and it is amusing to note that the impression that her, children may not be in the right class for, say, Lord Rockmere, does not oven occur to Mm Edward Lennox. The subject is attacked in a refreshing manner, and the play abounds with clevci characterisation and dialogue. The box plan is now open at tho Central Booking Office. Popular prices are being charged and it is confidently anticipated that the society will have even greater success with the current production than was achieved by its . previous efforts in “Interference,” “The Naughty Wife,” “Judy” and “Come Out of the Kitchen.” PICTURE THEATRES. “It’s a King” at - tho Palacjj Theatre; “Excess Baggage” and “Scarlet River” at the Kosy theatre. . Death hv freezing is the newest murder method to come to tho screen in Paramount’s “Terror Aboard,” which screens at the Regent to-morrow and Thursday, at 8 p.m. featuring John Halliday, Charlie Rugglos, Neil Hamilton and Shirley Grey. The doctor declares that a beautiful woman has been frozen to death —although the boat is in the tropics, in the middle of July, with the temperature at 90 degrees above. Tho supporting programme includes a Ford Sterling comedy, a revue, a musical novelty, a Betty Boop cartoon, and a nows.