ENTERTAINMENTS

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

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. “HOSE MARIE.” In a production sweeping v.ith song and scented with romance, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, those celebrated co-stars of “Naughty Marietta,” come to the screen of the Regent Theatre on Saturday in their well-known characters of light opera, “Rose .Marie.” Under their magic spell the full beauty of “Tho Indian Love Call,” “Rose Marie, ‘ Lose You,” “Song of the Mountics,” and other classics from the Herbert Stothart-Rudolf Erimi score, live again. More charming even than they were in the recordbreaking “Naughty Marietta,” Rose Marie” is a Metro-Goldwyn-Muyer triumph. 'Filmed almost entirely out-of-doors, in the mountain-like country of the Sierra Ncvadas, the production is a pic.torial sensation. Glimmering lakes, towering peaks, dangerous passes, all the beauty of naturo serves as background for tho romantic saga of tho Great Northwest. It was given full benefit of Director W. S. Van Dyke's proven talents, and magnificently mounted by Producer Hunt Stromberg, ‘the successful collaborators of “Naughty Marietta.” “Rose Marie” is tho story of a Canadian grand opera singer who travels incognito into (lie backwoods regions in search _ of. her brother, a criminal from justice.' Also searching for fho brother is Sergeant Bruce, of tho Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They meet and fall in love, until she realises the,mission the other.. J-ho crashing climax and poignant ending of. the story will be remembered long after most pictures are forgotten. One of .1 ho outstanding sequences is tho Totem Pole Indian Dance, the grotesque sot mounted on a sandpit extending into a broad lake. Peopled by more than a thousand dancers, lavish in costume, with music thrillnigly beautiful, it sets a now high for effect, photography and spectacular direction. A strong supporting cast assists Miss MacDonald and Eddv in “Rose Marie,” among them being James Stewart as the criminal brother, Reginald Owen as the stars manager. Allan Jones who scored so decisively in “A Night at the .Opera, George Rcgas, Robert'Greig, Una O Connor and Lucien Liitcficld. STATE THEATRE. “THE JUNGLE PRINCESS.” Had it not been for the “discovery” of Dorothy Lainour, it is likely that “’I be Jungle Princess,” a story of love in the heart o f tllG Malayan jungle which comes lo the Stale Theatre to-day, would never have been produced. Paramount had this story for many months, but would not put it into production until they found a girl slar to play the title role. The girl had to be, beautiful, she had to have long, beautiful hair, and she had to have all . tho mysterious and elusive charm of a primitive jpngle dweller. She also l)*ul to liavo enough courage to go through her paces in the company of a fierce man-eating tiger and a giant chimpanzee, both of whom were to be her only companions in her jungle home. Hollywood is full of long-haired beauties, “panther women,® and courageous girls who have no qualms about being hugged to death in the viccliko grip of a chimpanzee, or. to make a pet of a -man-eater measuring almost four foot from its stiletto-sharp claws to its haunch, or nearly eight feet from its sabre teeth lo the tip of its flashing tail. But to find a girl who could fit all the requirements of an lionest-to-goodncss “Jungle Princess” was no mean job. And then came Miss Lamour. The pretty biunetto Had already gained a nation-wide reputation as a radio singer and one day a radio magazine published her portrait. Paramount executives saw it and called her to tlio studios for a scroen test. She registered perfectly and wasn’t afraid of ammals. Tho rc.it, was easy. The story was immediately put into production. Ray Milland was cast as the explorer who gets lost in the jungle and falls in love with the “Jungle Princess.” Molly Lamont was cast as the girl Milland left behind him. It is between Iter and Miss Lamour that he is forced to choose his mate. “Liman,” a full-grown tiger from the Malay jungle, is the tiger companion of Miss Lamour, and “Bogo,” a lingo chimpanzee, is another of her friends.