ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 310, 28 November 1933, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

Fredric March, the young star who recently won the most distinguished honour the motion picture industry can bestow, the award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the best performance of the year, co-stars with Claudette Colbert, dark-eyed, French-born screen beauty, in “To-night Is Ours,” Paramount’s screen adaptation of a play by Noel Coward, which comes to the Regent Theatre to-morrow evening. ‘‘Tonight Is Ours” is a witty, romantic story of clever, intelligent people providing firstclass entertainment.. • “The Little Damozei,” which will open to-morrow afternoon at the Palace Theatre. is a richly human musical romance that calls for much expression, during its developments, of two distinct personalities and also a vast range of emotions. Thin gives Anna Neagle an opportunity of thoroughly displaying all her terpsiehorean art, even to singing “blues” songs and doing »-010 dancing of an unusual type, both of which accomplishment she has studied with experts, specially for use in thiji picture.

“King of the Jungle” comes to-morrow to the Kosy Theatre, with Buster Crabbe (the Lion Man), Frances JDoe, Irving Pichel, Sidney Toler and others in the featured east. Briefly the plot concerns itself with the adventurous life of Karspa, the I Jon Man. who is reared by lions in the African veldt. He is captured, and brought back to civilisation when he ie befriended bv an attractive school-teacher, Frances Dee. The burning of a circus and the stampede of a herd of fire-crazcd jungle animals through the crowded streets of a great metropolis furnishes a dramatic climax.