ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 159, 7 June 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

STATE THEATRE. “SEA DEVILS.” Hiding ’ the swirling waves of adventure and romance, Academy Award winner Victor McLaglen as a Chief Bo’sun’s Mate in the Coast Guard and Preston Foster as his rival score a buU’e-eyc in stellar entertainment in RKO Radio’s drama, “Sea Devils,” which screens at the State Theatre to-night. Sharing the spotlight honours with McLaglen and Tosier in this thrilling vignette of an unsung but heroic branch of the Government service, ?»s Ida Lupino with Donald Woods heading the supporting cast. Seaman Foster, an adventurer, no sooner joins the ciew of McLaglen’s ship than trouble starts between the two. Boasting of his prowess with the weaker ecx, Footer begins courting McLaglcn’s daughter, Ida Lupino. Foster is about the last man in the service McLaglen would choose as a son-in-law, but it happens that his daughter has a mind of her own, so McLaglen initiates a bitter feud with the sailor. Terrific combats between this pair of Titans vie with thrilling rescues from storm-battered ships as dramatic highlights of this action-cram-med photoplay. Using the United States Coast Guard cutter Tahoe and its crew, perilous rescue of passengers from a burning vessel is effected, and later other lives arc saved from a hurricane-grounded boat, in which full beach equipment, including surf boats, a Lyle gun, a breeches buoy and other apparatus, is brought into play, in a revealing demonstration of lifesaving technique. An authentic reproduction of Coast Guard procedure was assured bv the retention of Lieutenant H. C. Moore as technical adviser throughout the production.

REGENT THEATRE. \ “ROSE MARIE.” Jn a production sweeping with song and scented with romance, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, those celebrated co-stars of “Naughty Marietta,” come to tho screen of the Regent Theatre to-night in their well-known characters of light opera, “Rose Mare.’* Under their magic spell the full beauty of “The Indian Love Call,” “Rose Marie, ‘ Love You,” “Song of the Mountics,” and other clabtsics from the Herbert Stothart-Rudolf Frimi score, live again. More charming even than they were in the recordbreaking “Naughty Marietta,” Rose Marie” is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor triumph. Filmed almost entirely out-of-doors, in the mountain-like country of the Sierra Nevadas, the production is a pictorial sensation. Glimmering lakes, towering' peaks, dangerous passes, all 1 the beauty of nature serves as background for the romantic saga of the Great Northwest. It was given full benefit of Director W. S. Van Dyke’s proven talents, and magnificently mounted by Producer Hunt Stroinbcrg, the successful collaborators of “Naughty Marietta.” “Rose Marie” its Ihe story of a Canadian grand opera singer who travels incognito into . the backwoods regions in search of her brother, a criminal from justice. Also searching for the brother is Sergeant Bnicc, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They meet and fall in love, until she realises the mission of the other. The crashing climax and poignant ending of the.*story will be remembered long after n.ost pictures arc forgotten. One of i*»c outstanding sequences is the Totem Pole Indian' Dance, the grotesque set 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 new high for effect photography and spectacular direction. A strong supporting cast assists Miss MacDonald and Eddy in “Rose Marie.” among them being James Stewart as the criminal brother. Reginald Owen as the star’s manager, and Allan Jones who scored soi decisively : n “A Night at the Opera.”