ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 3 June 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “ARIZONA MAHONEY.” Joe Cook, America’s “one-man-circus,” rides 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 • tho type used in circuses to shoo’, “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, screens at 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 Juno Martel, a 'bit of diversion also being practised at tho same timo by Larry Crabbe, a bandit chief. Joe makes his famous ride —atop the elephant—when rival bandits, who resent Crabbc’s rustling raids, made just to fulfil Miss Martel’s desire lo own cows, surround tho trio in a ranch house. It is a timely and efficacious arrival, you may bo sure, albeit somewhat irregular for the Wild West cinema-goers have como to know. Assisting in the madcap goings-on arc Marjorie Gatcson, John IvliTjan, Dave Chascn, Irving Bacon, a talking goose, two Indians, a swayback hcr.se and talented little Billie Lee. “LET’S MAKE A MILLION.” As gay and merry a comedy as you, could wish to sec screens at tho Kosy Theatre to-day in Paramount’s “Let’s Make a Million,” a story of - one . man’s bonus and how it grew. 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 Maytair Theatre tonight. It captures Continental flavour and music, and put them on the Antorican screen in a story with unusual dramatic twists that keep the audience in a constant state of surprises. Through the deft handling of tho story every entertainment 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-Maycr 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 Crews, stage star of “The Silver Cord,” Mathilde Coinont, Lorraine Bridges, new singing discovery, are others in the cast. The story deuis witli a debonair und lionised artist, played by Powell, who falls in love, through complications over a painting of another man’s wife, with the deinuro companion of a countess, With a jealous doctor, _ a former sweetheart and a flirtatious wife on his hands, he tries to balance the whole structure while progressing on a rocky rpad of true love. Through flirtation he''paints an unconventional p’eture of the doctor’s wife. Through mistake it goes to the publisher. Ho hunts a model to pass for tho original as an alibi, falls in Jovo 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 fram records made during the tenor’s life, with augmented orchestration, recreate his golden tones to best actual reproduction of Ills voice ever achieved.