ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 233, 1 September 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “HOTEL HAYWIRE.” When a crooked astrologer sots out to foment discord between a happily married couple—just to make work for a pair of crackpots .ho is convinced were meant to be detectives, anything can happen And it docs, plenty—in “Hotel Haywire,” tho irresponsible Paramount Week comedy now showing at the Kosy Theatre. Leo Carrillo is the astrologer and Benny Baker is one of the crackpots. Lynne Overman and Spring Byinglon are Carrillo’s victims and the cast also includes Mary Carlisle, George Barbior. John Patterson, Collette Lyons, Chestor Conkin, and a host of other well-known funmakers and featured players. “Hotel Haywire” is an original comedy by Preston Sturges, who gave you “Strictly Dishonourable” and other smash comedy hits. It is a gay and madcap comedy which you should not miss if you want to enjoy one of tho season’s real laugh sensations.

“KING OF GAMBLERS.” A sweeping oxpose, of tho slot machine racket in all its ramifications, showing how one man can terrorise a city and rule its vice, its gambling and even its lawmakers is* Paramount Week’s thrill at the Kosy Theatre. It is the daringly powerful Paramount film, “King of Gamblers,” written with no punches pulled by Tiffany Thayer. Akim Tamiroff plays the title rote, and he will thrill you in it even more tliun ho did as the General in “The General Died at Dawn.” Claire Trevor, Lloyd Nolan, Porter Hall and others are in the ace cast. Don’t miss “King of Gamblers.” It is movie dynamite !

MAYFAIR THEATRE. “CHINA SEAS.” The ' greatest star combination in the history of show business—Clarke Gable, the late Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery—in a red-blooded drama of fierce loves, hitter hates, deadly intrigues. Played on the plunging dock of a wheezy old liner beset by screaming tyhoons and blood-thirsty Malay pirates olf the wild south-east coast of Asia. And with the three stars supported by a cast that includes no less than a dozen big names! That is a vignette of “China Seas,” new Irving G. Tlialbcrg production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor, which Tay Garnett directed and which screens to-night at the Mayfair Theatre. It presents tho throe stars in roics of the types which made them famous—Gable as a' hardbitten young skipper of a pas-engcr steamer on tho most dangerous run in tho world; Miss Harlow as a wisecracking, tender hearted lady of tho ports of the Orient, deeply in love with Gable and not afraid to show it; Boory as a genial Irish trader, whose gruff affability masks his operations as the sinsistcr “brains” of half-wold pirate bands. The exceptional supporting cast includes Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, Dudley Digges, C. Aubrey Rntilh, Robert Beneliley, William Henry, Live Dcmaigrct, Lillian Bond, Edward Brophv, Soo Yong, Carol Ann Becrv, Akim Tamiroff and Ivan Labcdcff. Filming cf “China Seas" on a pretentious scale culminated two years of the most elaborate preparation. Originally a novel by Crosbic Garstin, the screen play received the attention of Jules Furthman. James K. McGiiiiiness. and oilier writers. It comes to the screen as one of M-G-M’s outstanding productions cf the new season. The locale is the last frontier of the ocean*, the only place on earth where pirates still rove the seas. The story recalls recent newspaper headlines telling of pirate raids on modern pleasure vessels, for a pirate raid and a typhoon are among the thrills.