ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 23 July 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “THREE CHEERS FOR LOVE.” A bright, last, run-filled musicale, filled with swingable, singable tames and featuring some of the most outstanding dance talent on the screen is presented finally tonight at the Kosy where Paramount's “Three Cheers for Love” is showing. “Three Cheers for Love” gives “swing music” its first screen glorification. A gay story with its emphasis on youth, it moves in a tempo built for summer entertainment. Klcanorc Whitney, called the owner of the “fastest feet in the world,” and Robert Cummings have the leading roles. Also featured are Olympe Erudna, French dance sensation; Louis Dapron, speed tapper of the first order, and a cast including William Frawley. Roscoc Karns, John Halliday, Elizabeth Patterson, Grace Bradley, Veda Ann Borg and Billy Lee. The story deals with Klcanorc, fast-stopping daughter of a movie magnate, Halliday, who is sent to a finishing school by her stop-mother. Miss Borg. The school proves a falce, with chorines posing as students and vaudeville actors masquerading as professors, all in order to crash Hollywood. The plot is to got Elcanoro to • take part ill a “school performance,” invite her father to attend, and soil him the idea of buying the acts. “Three Cheers for Love” introduces a number of songs which moved to tlie bit classification as soon as the show was released. The ballroom dance staged by Miss Whitney and Cummings in one sequence, the “Swing-Along,” is proving a nation-wide sensation. “GIRL OF THE OZARKS.”

The life and problems of a small girl in a tiny Ozark Mountain village where the weekly clarion comes out “i hursdays, or thereabouts,” and whore a school board purchase of new books is exciting news, arc dramatised in Paramount,'s “Girl of Ozarks,” now showing finally at the Kosy Theatre. The picture bring's to stardom for the first time Virginia Weidier, pigtailed child actress who climbed to national favour in “Peter Ibbetson,” “Mrs AViggs of the Cabbage Patch,” “Laddie” and other films, in “Girl of the Ozarks,” Virginia, appears as an underprivileged mountain girl with a genius for attracting trouble. Known as a “good-for-ncthing” by the villagers of Mill Stream, she finds school almost impossible for her spirit and nature. When her grandmother, pipesmoking, gun-toting Henrietta. Grosman, steals a dress for her to wear at “class day,” Virginia goes to tho county home. A romance with Leif Erikson and Elizabeth Russell as principals is closely bound up with tho fortunes and misfortunes of the mountain girl. Janet Young appears as the child's mother, broken and ill through the rigours of tho mountain life. MAYFAIR THEATRE. “THE DOMINANT SEX.” One of the most compelling of presentday problems is presented in entertaining fashion in “The Dominant Sex,” delightful screen version of Michael Egan’s re-cord-breaking play, which conies to the Mayfair Theatre to-morrow. Women all over tho world will sympathise with Angela Shale, the young wife who starts her married lifo intending to keep the independence of her single days and who finds herself in perpetual conflict with her husband as the result. Men will understand tho problem of the young husband, Dick, who hankered after an old-fashioned wife, a real home, and a baby. AVhether a wife should work after marriage—whether the husband has a right to make decisions which will affect the wife’s future without consulting her, and whether a wife is entitled to sundry male friends, are some of the questions frankly discussed in this deliciously daring story of the early married life of an ordinary young couple. No more suitable actres - sthan Diana Churchill, golden-haired star, who played in the stage version for over 700 performances, could have been chosen for the role of lovely, laughing Angela Shale, who found that her married life, though happy, brought her disillusionment. Phillips ‘Holmes, the Hollywood star, is ideal as tho young husband who finds it difficult, to understand the quicksilver moods and ideas of his wife. A widely different married couple is represented by Carol Goodner and Romney Brent, who play the roles of a selfish, pleasure-seeking wife, and kindly, unselfish husband. Tho wife’3 flirtations and habits break up this

marriage, sending the husband to another girl, who looks on him as more than a universal provider Other members of the strong east arc Billy Milton —as a former flame of Angela’s, who brings about an amusing scries of complications when he becomes involved with Dick in business— Kathleen Kelly, who brings delightful freshness to the role of tho young girl with, whom Romney Brent finds eventual happiness, and Hugh Miller as a philandering man-about town. Herbert Brcnori. famous director of numerous Hollywood successes, directed “The Dominant Sex.” Don’t miss it I It’s tho story of your married life —my married life—and that of tho nice young couple next door.