ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 160, 8 June 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “PENROD AND SAM.” Playing a bank robber with a black stubble of board on Ilia face was putting a saiL handicap on Craig Reynolds, one of Hollywood’s handsomest young men-about-town. The night spots were threatened with suffering, too, as a result of Craig’s role in “Penrod and Sam.” the Booth Tarkington classic which comes to the Kosy Theatre finally to-night as a First, National production. Time was when a stubble of beard was just a make-up problem. A smear of dark grease paint did the trick. But modern photography make it tho one sort of falso hair that cannot possibly be duplicated by tho make-up man. It represents a thrcc-day growth, and is kept at one “level” by the application/ of clippers. Reynolds, who likes to do the . ritzy 6pots of evenings, got away with it by means of a desperate expedient After consulting his current girl friends he donned a false Van Dyke beard to cover the stubble, and successfully braved his well-known haunts in that guise! “Penrod and Sam” is Booth Tarkington's long-famous comedy-drama of a group of adventurous small-town boys—brought right up to the 1937 minute by having their interests what the, boys’ interests of to-day are, “GIRL OVERBOARD!” Set against the spectacular background of a ship fire at sea, “Girl Overboard!" a fast • moving Universal picture, screens finally at tile Kosy' Theatre to-night with Gloria Stuart and Walter Pidgeon in the leading roles. Tho screen play tells tho story of a beautiful New York girl who flees from the sinister influence of tho proprietor of an exclusive Manhattan gown shop. Just before she sails, the man is killed and the finger of suspicion is pointed at the girl. By this time, however, she is at sea, aboard a ship on which a disastrous fire breaks out. Consumed, in the blazing inferno of the ill-fated liner is the only evidence of the true killer’s identity. When the accused girl, by a queer twist of fate, is given shelter in the home of the district attorney whoso job it is to prosecute her, the picture advances to a swift, smashing climax. Supporting Aliss Stuart and Walter Pidgeon arc such favourites as Billy Burrud, Hobart Cavanaugh, Gerald Oliver Smith, Sidney Blacknier, Jack Smart, David Oliver, Charlotte Wynters, Russell Hicks, It. E. O'Connor and Edward AlcNainara.

REGENT THEATRE. “ROSE, AIARIE.” In a production sweeping with song and scented with romance, Jeanette AlacDonald 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 Alarie.’' Under their magic spell the full beauty of “Tho Indian Love Call,” “Rose Alarie, ‘ Love You,” “Song of the Afountics,” and other classics from tho Herbert Stothart-Rudolf Frimi score, live again. Alore charming even than they were in tho recordbreaking “Naughty Alarictta,” Rose Alarie” is a AJetro-Goldwyn-Alayer triumph. Filmed almost entirely out-of-doors, in the mountain-liko country of the Sierra Nevadas, the production is a pictorial sensation. Glimmering lakes, towering peaks, dangerous passes, all the beauty of nature serves as background for tho 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 Stroinberg, the successful collaborators of “Naughty Alarictta.” “Rose Alarie” is the 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 Bruce, of the Royal Canadian Aiountcd Police. They meet and fall in love, until she realises the mission of the other. Tho crashing climax and poignant ending of tho story will be remembered long,, after most pictures arc forgotten. One of ihc outstanding sequences is the Totem Tolc Indian Dance, the grotosque 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 Aliss . AlacDon aid and Eddy in “Rose Marie,” among them being James Stewart as tho criminal brother, Reginald Owen as the star’s manager, and Allan Jones who scored so decisively in “A Night at the Opera.”