ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 28 August 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAYFAIR THEATRE. “FEATHER YOUR NEST.” Get ready for tlie greatest treat of hearty laughter you have over enjoyed when George Formby’s latest musical mirthquakc, “Feather lour Nest,” screens at the Mayfair Theatre to-night. George’s latest film has all the merry swing of its predecessors, “No Limit” and “Keep Your Seats, Please,” and tho song numbers arc both catchy and comical. “Feather Your Nest” will keep you rolling in your seats while the fun oscillates between George’s work as a gramophone recordist, and his mishaps in his “very jerry-built nest,” with hectic interludes at Turkish baths, the local “pub,” and on a runaway motor-bike, thrown in, as it were, for good comedy measure. Everyone will fall for the Willie Piper of this picture, with his good nature, his simple desire to get married, and his succession of blundering mistakes that apparently make his objective more and more out of (he question. The blunders start good and early, but tlie main one occurs when Willie, the mirth recordist in a large gramophone factory, who cannot help dropping things when the whistle goes, drops the valuable master-record of a famous crooner. To make matters worse, ho and Mary have already paid instalments on their home and furniture. So, to prevent Willie getting the sack, they both steal into the factory late at night and make a record, with Willie substituting for tlie crooner and providing bis own banjo accompaniment. The crooner, of course, disowns tho record — Willie is duly sacked —and the record instantly becomes the best-seller for tlie year, with tlie result that Willie is redeemed from a police cell, having been recognised by a “cop” when getting put of the factory, and is offered a substantial recording contract by bis firm. Apart from his mishaps at the factory, Willie is shown disastrously fooling around with the boor-connecting pipes in the cellar of the pub, owned by his prospective mother-in-law ; being as the victim of a mistaken identity, subjected to a ferocious work-out 111 the Turkish baths; unconsciously insulting his superior in a mike test; and with his girl on the pillion, having a number of hairbreadth escapes as ho careers along on a borrowed motor-cycle. In all these situations, Formby again proved himself a seasoned comedian, with an incidental gift for very acceptable song to banjo accompaniment Ably filling tlie role of Mary Taylor, Willie’s sweetheart, is Folly Ward, lovely, vivacious newcomer to tl'c screen, but whose stage reputation sthniTs on very solid rock. Also screening is “This Motoring,” a very interesting film showing the birth and growth of tho Automobile Association.

KOSY THEATRE. “lIILLS OF OLD WYOMING.” The song “In the Iliils of Old Wyoming,” written for Paramount by I-eo Robin and Ralph Rainger, has provided the title for Paramount’s “Hills of Old Wyoming,” llie latest “llupalong Cassidy” picture now showing at the Kosy Theatre. The song has been adopted as one of tho college tunes by the student bod} of the University of Wyoming. The picture represents vividly against the background of this beautiful Western country a war between cattle rustlers and honest ranchers, in which the Indian wards on a Wyoming reservation are used by a crooked Government agent to shield bis steer thieving. William Boyd as “llopalong Cassidy” defies death at the hands of both the Indians and the rustlers as leader of the ranchers. 110 confronts tho Indians in their war dance ceremonial preparatory to attacking the settlers, and with courage and eloquence makes them his followers instead of enemies. lie then leads a combined Indian-rancher attack on the rustlers’ stronghold which brings the film to a thrilling bullet-spitting, gun-smoking climax. “TIIE CRIME NOBODY SAW.” Lew Ayres, Benny Baker and Eugene Palletto turn detective in Paramount’s “The Crime Nobody tjaw,” a thrilling mystery story well spiced with comedy, now showing at the lxosy 'J heatre. ’the throe are playwrights who are up against, a stone wall for a plot. A play must be delivered the very next day or there is a singularly ominous “or else” from a producer who had given them a liberal advance. Fate comes to their rescuo by staging a murder right in their living room. Their next door neighbour is slam and it becomes necessary lor them to I solve it before the police learn about the crime. All kinds of complications and set- , backs arise but when it is all over the l>olico have their man, tho three have a plot for a mystery story and Ayres has a new girl lriend, lovely Ruth Coleman. “The Crime Nobody Saw” moves at a rapid pace. An unusual twist in tho murder is calculated lo defy solution from the most adept solvers ol film mysteries. For this special credit is duo to Cnarles Barton, who directed.