ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 2 June 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAYFAIR THEATRE, “ESCAPADE.” Stars, romance, music, gaiety, laughter and drama all mingled in a new and unique blend of screen entertainment in “Escapade,” a new romance of Vienna which screens at the Maylair Theatre tonight. It captures Continental flavour and music, and put them on the American screen in a story with unusual dramatic twists that keep the audience in a constant state of surprises. Through the deft handling of the story every enterta nment value from laughs to tears, from drama to music, is packed into a single evening’s divertissement, Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, the new Metro Goldwyn-Mayer 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. Henry Laura Hope Crows, stage star of “The Silver Cord,” Mathilde Comont, Lorraine Bridges, new s'nging discovery, are others in the cast. The story' deals with a debonair and lionised artist, played by Powell, who falls in 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, he trios to balance the whole structure while progressing on a rocky road of true love, '.through flirtation he paints an unconventional p cture 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 the opera premiere in which the voice of Enrico Caruso amplified from records made during the tenor’s life, with ‘augmented orchestration, recreate his golden tones to best actual reproduction ol h s voice ever achieved. Another is a Viennese concert hall, where the new song hit, “You’re All I Need,” is featured. The brillant musical score is hv Walter Jurmsnn -and Bronislav Kapor, brilliant Continental composers of Jan Kiepura’s hits, making their debut as composers for the American screen. KOSY THEATRE. “ARIZONA MAHONEY.” Joe Cook, America’s “one-man-circus,” .ides to the rescue of the gal on—of all things —an elephant! And it is no mere forty-five Joe packs. His weapon is a 22-inch cannon of the type tired in circuses to shoot “living bullets” into the air. And for ammunition, Joe uses fry-ing-pans, kettles, washboards and other household accoutrements. Docs it work ? Paramount's “Arizona Mahoney,” a madcap .travesty of life on the plains, conics to the .Kosy Theatre to-day. Joe and his assistant, Robert .Cummings, carnival operators, are stranded in a Western town. Cummings improves his time ( by courting beautiful June Martel, a bit of diversion also being practised at -the same time by Larry Crnbbe, a bandit chief. Joe makes his famous ride —atop the elephant—when rival bandits. who resent Crabbe’s rustling raids, made just to fulfil Miss .Vloriel’s desire to own rows, surround the trio in a ranch house. It is a timely and efficacious arrival, you may ho i urc, albeit somewhat irregular for the Mild West cinema-goers have come to know. Assisting in the madcap goings-on arc Marjorie Gatoson, John Miljan, Dave Chasen, Irving Bacon, a talking goose, two Indians, a swavback horse and talented little Billie Lee. “LET’S MAKE A MILLION.” As gay and merry a comedy as you could wish to sec screens at the Kosy Theatre to-day in I’arainount’s “Let’s Make a Million,” a story of one ’ man’s bonus and how it grew, with Edward Everett Horton an the vet,_ and charming Charlotte Wynters as the girl he intended to marry—without reckoning with “pixilated” sisters.