ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 72, 24 February 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “GIRLS WILL BE BOYS.” Imagine tho situations that would arise when a young and vivacious girl masquerades as a boy in a castle of womenhaters. She is commanded to box and row and swim just a 6 if she wore really the boy she is impersonating. She is laughed at for a coward when she refuses a cold shower with her 'boxing instructor; she is looked down upon by her grandfather’s friends when she cannot keep up tho traditions of her hard-drinking, hardsmoking, liard-swoaring forebears. These are some of tho embarrassing positions in which the heroine of “Girls Will Be Boys” finds herself. Tho Duke of Bridgewater (played by Cyril Maude, the well-known star of “Grumpy” and other successes), a woman-hater of the deepest dye; the mere idea ot a woman within the castle walls was enough to make him ill, and the servants, from cook to chambermaid, were men. At the bottom of it all lay a family scandal, which left the Duke, at 70 an embittered and lonely old man without an heir to follow him. “BEYOND BENGAL.” Recently an expedition, organised with the co-operation of his Highness, the Sultan of Perak, and conducted by Harry Schenek, journeyed into the forbidden depths of the Millay Peninsula junglo, in orclor to obtain authentic material tor tlie production of “Beyond Bengal,” which, now completed, has been acclaimed the world over a,s tho “greatest jungle film ever made.” Almost unbelievable were the dangerous and thrilling escapes experienced by numbers of the expedition. Time and time again, death stared them in the face, for this particular region of the earth’s surface is the supreme example of. primitive savagery in the world to-day. The most fearsome animals and reptiles existent abound there —lions, tigers, panthers, pythons and crocodiles, and the msot deadly of them all, according to authority, the Sladang, the real King of Boasts. MAYFAIR THEATRE. “OLD HUTCH.” Millions of readers roared at “Old Hutch” when the story’ appeared in a, national magazine. They and additional millions will laugh when they see Wallace | Beery in the title role of the film ver- I sion at the Mayfair Theatre. The “laziest man in the world” finds £25,000 in stolon notes and he' can't find a way to spend it! That is the predicament in which Wallace Beery finds himself in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor's “Old Hutch.” Eric Linden ami Cecilia Parker, the lovable romantic team of “Ah, Wilderness!” supply tho heart interest for the production, which was directed by J. Walter Ruben, of “Riffraff” an<l “Trouble for Two” fame. Elizabeth Patterson, who recently scored as Janet Gaynor’s mother in “Small Town Girl,” appears in the role of Mrs Hutchins, Beery’s wife. The original story by Garret Smith was hailed us a scrum natural when it appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. It was produced by Harry Rapt. Beery encompasses the rich personal experience or his colourful lifetime In his characterisation of “Old Hutch.” lie was great in “Ah, Wilderness!” and many other notable triumphs, lint never has he been cast in a role that was better adapted to his particular abilities. The picture was filmed in the picturesque Santa Cruz ranch country. Beory portrays tho indolent but. lovable native who finds a fortune but can’t find a way to spend, it. When he finally discovers that it. is stolen money nnd that lie can capture the criminals if he can summon the courage,, Beory gives a porforinane that tops anything in his j career of popular roles. There is a ( strong love interest in the parts played j by Erie Linden and Cecilia Parker. AI9O < featured in tho supporting cast are Rob- 1 ert McWade. Caroline Perkins, Julia 1 Perkins, Delinor Watson, Harry Watson, - Janies Burke, Virginia Grey, and Donald Meek. Thoso work together with : artistic sureness ot touch. Comedy, romance and thrills follow in swift succession in this front-cover story from the most popular magazine published in America.