ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 154, 1 June 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND.” With Richard Dix, Dolores Del Rio and Chester Morris charing the starring rolc°, Columbia’s “Devil’s Playground,” a dynamic comedy-drama based on the exploits of the bravo lads in the submarine fleet, will screen finally at the Kosy Theatro to-night. Revolving about the unusual triangle of two navy officers, once inseparable, wno part over the friendship of a voluptuous siren interested in neither of them, “Devil’s Playground" turns its attention in a sensational climax to a spec-, tacular crash between a huge derelict ocean liner and a fully manned submarine. With a gaping hole midships tho sleek, grey sea dog sinks to the bottom, 50 fathoms below the surface. With the crew trapped in an airtight compartment, diver after diver attempts the hazardous descent with- a lifebearing hose, but the pressure at 50 fathoms is too much to overcome. Dix, as the navy’s ace diver, is probably the only man able to make contact with the sunken hulk, but refuses to try it. Tho events responsible for this dramatic situation unfold in a rapid-fire succession of thrills, romance and action-packed comedy. Erie C. Kenton directed “Devil’s Playground,” which was adapted to the screen by Liam O’Flaherty, Jerome Uhodorov and Dalton Trumbo. “SHE’S DANGEROUS.” “She’s Dangerous!” is the title of the exciting Universal picture, also screening Anally at the Kosy. The title refers to Tala Bircll, who sets a trap tor a gang that lias stolen 500,000 dollars. When the net elvses in, Tala herself is caught in the snare. Other players prominently east include Warren Ilymer, Walter llrennan, Samuel' S. Fluids, Richard Carle, Franklin Pangbovn and Richard Tucker. MAYFAIR THEATRE. “ESCAPADE.” Stars, romance, music, gaiety, laughter and drama all mingled in a new and unique blend of screen entertnaimont in “Escapade,” a now romance of Vienna that comes to the Mayfair Theatre to-mor-row. It captures Continental flavour and music, and put them on the American screen in a story with unusual dramatic twists that keeii the audience in a constant state of surprises. Through the deft handling of the story every enterta nmont value from laughs to tears, from drama Lo music, is packed into a single evening’s divertissement. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, the new Alctro-Goldwyn-Alayer picture, stars William Powell and introduces Luiso Rainer, brilliant Vienna stage star. Reginald Owen plays the Travers is the comical gardener and absent-minded musician lover. Ilenry Laura Hope Crows, stage star of “The Silver Cord,'’ Alaihilde Comont, Lorraine Bridges, new s nging discovery, aro others in the cast. Tho story deals with a debonair and lionised artist, played by Powell, who fulls ill love, through complications over a painting of another man’s wife, with the demure companion of a countess, With a jealous doctor, a former sweetheart and a flirtatious wife on his hands, lie tries to balance the whole structure while progressing on a rocky road of true love. 'J hrougTi flirtation 'he paints an unconventional p'ctui'e of the doctor’s wife. Through mistake it goes to the'publisher. lie hunts a model to pass for the original as an alibi, falls in love with her, and a jealous former sweetheart interferes. Though not a musical picture, there are some elaborate musical sequences. The most important is tho opera premiere in which the voice of Enrico Caruso amplified from records made during tho tenor’s life, with augmented orchestration, recreate his golden tones to best actual reproduction of h : s voice ever achieved. Another is a Viennese 1 concert hall, where the new song hit, ( “You’ro Ali I Need,” is featured. .The , brill’ant musical score is by Walter Jur- . maim ' and Bronislav Kaper, brililant Continental composers of Jmi, Kiepura’s hits, making their debut as composers for the American screen. ' t