ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 163, 11 June 1936, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. “WHERE’S MY MAN?” A greaty story, riotous fun and daring adventure*, now showing at the Regent Theatre, make a magnificent trio for this unusual film. Here at last the makers of screen entertainment have combined several aspects of screen art into one exquisite whole. With Cicely Courtneidge to supply the fun, and the ‘Situations,” and Tom Walls offering a new angle of his personality, which will delight and surprise his admirers, the success of the film is assured. The (story, in its main features, is a true one. Two hundred year* ago the Duke of Marlborough ('Join Walls), the famous soldier for whom Queen Anne built Blenheim Palace, had a five-year struggle with Lou fa XIV., the grand Alonarquo of France. Like many soldiers, Marlborough hated politician*. In spite of their protests That the lighting must stop, lie determines to have a final “go” at Louis and win the war outright, lie send* hi* recruiting sergeant “press-ganging” for recruits. Among his “pick-ups” is a young farmer, but lately married to Kit Ross, a self-willed young country girl. Furiously she dashes after her new husband, kicks the recruiting 6ergcant into the water and *ails with the next draft dfaguised as a soldier. Out in Flanders, where,all the war part of the film is enacted, she has adventure after adventure. Fate and her own daring bring her a chance to detect a spy and rescue the Duke from the clutches of the French, and it ends a* all real comedy films should end, with the lovers reunited, the hero triumphant, and the villain defeated.

STATE THEATRE. “ANOTHER FACE.” “Another Face,” which shows to-day at the btale Theatre, is a last-running, tensely exciting melodrama, marked by lavish comedy, and played to tho hilt by a highly capable cast. Brian Donlevv, as a New York gangster, characterised by twisted feature*, In ft a plastic surgeon mould bis face into a handsome to conceal his identity. Obeying bis swaggering vanity, lie migrates to Hollywood and the films, believing that none know hi* identity. This glory is swept into thrilling action and novel comedy when a nurse, who has escaped to Hollywood with the secret, confides it to the hare-brained studio publicity director (played by Wallace lord). Ever aspiring for headlines, the Press agent plans to capture t lie killer in trout of grinding cameras, jeopardising his own life and that of his sweetheart (Phyllis Brooks), who star* in the film within a film. But all does not proceed according to the (scenario, and complications mount on complications, to the audience’s surprise, amazement, and delightful entertainment. Ford is gplendid as the haphazard publicity man, neatly blended comedy, with action, and romance. Aiis* Brooks, warmly attractive, turns in a first-rate performance. A comparative screen tyro, sho casi.y matches in pace and playing the noted troupers who complete the ca-t. Dcnlevy, recently seen n “Barbary Coast,” as Knuckles, is srperb. His gangster-turned-actor role affords a contimml round of sinister tenseness, mingled with t'O end of laughs. Alan Hale stands out as a studo executive, as do Molly Lamont, as the nurse, Addison Randal, and Paul fetani- #i. Christy Cnbannc has directed to get the full entertainment value out of the story, scoring paiticularly in maintaining a constant flow of fresh comedy and unexpected actim thrills, (Till Rc-d acted as associate produ.er on “Another 1 ( acc, an IIKO-lladio picture. “HIS NIGHT OUT.” You arc going to sec a new motion picture star at the State Theatre to-night. Anil yet you all know Inn: well, for his face has been on the screen for ten year*. However, just to keep from making a guessing contest out of this, the man in question is Edward Everett IJorton, the picture i* Universal’* “His Night Out.” the second big attraction, and the supporting east includes beautiful Irene Harvey, Jack La Rue and Robert Me\\ ade.