ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 240, 9 September 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAYFAIR THEATRE. “MAKE .WAY POR TO-MORROW.” Tho revolt of modern youth against the conventions of its parents and an insight into the problems of a typical American family are made the subject of a sympathetic and homely play by Vina Dolmar in Paramount's “Make Way for To-morrow,” which is allowing to-day at tho Mayfair Theater. Miss Dolmar, author of “Bad Girl,” “The Marriage Racket” and other recent best-sellers, discusses the problems of a modern life-loving girl in her ’toons, played by Barbara Read, and her relationship with Fay Bainter, tho bridge-playing mother. A countorplot is also provided by the generation represented by Miss Bainter, her husband, her brother, and his sisters, and their conflict with the generation repreosnted by their parents. These roles are played by Thomas Mitchell, Ray Mayor, Elisabeth Risdon and Minna Gombol as the middle-aged children; 1 and Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore as the aged parents. Porter Hall, Louise Beavers, Maurice Moscovitch, late of tho stage, and a score of others are in the supporting cast. Miss Read was chosen for tho role of tho modern daughter by Miss Dolmar licrsolf because the noted writer claimed she most nearly approached her conception of tho American girl of 1937 both in her outlook upon life and in her physical appearance. The story was directed by Leo McCarcy, who dirocted “Ruggies of Red Gap” and “The Milky Way.’ 7 KOSY THEATRE. “WINGS IN THE DARK.” Myrna Loy and Cary Grant are cosfars of the new Paramount film, “Wings in tho Dark,” now showing at the Kosy Theatre.. The picture, directed by James Flood, is a vitally dramatic story of a daring girl flier who risks her life for tho man she loves, Roscoc Kurils, Hobart Cavanaugh and Dean Jagger are in tho supporting cast. While the story deals with aviation it is an entirely different aeroplane yarn. “Wings in tho Dark” deals with an aviator’s heroic efforts to make flying safe for everyone. Just as his experiments in blind flying and radio control arc about to succeed, ho is temporarily blinded in an accident. With the aid of the girl who loves him, he fights his way back uml carries on his experiments, although he fears that he has lost his sight for ever. In the gripping dramatic climax, lie flics a ’plane to save the life of tho girl and regains his sight to sec the triumph of his work. Roscoc Karris, Hobart Cavanaugh and Dean Jagger play tho principal featured roles of “Wings in the Dark,” which was directed by James Flood. “LIMEHOUSE BLUES.” A gripping, mciodramtaic tale, set in tho eorio oonfincs of London’s world famous Chinatown, Paramount’s “Limehouso Blues” brings George Raft to the scroen with two loading ladies —the beautiful Chinese Anna May Wong and demure Jean Parker. Tho picture is now playing at the Kosy Theatre. It is a tale of tangled threads of love and devotion, set against a background of smuggling, Oriental luxury and strife between the underworld and the police. The film presents. Raft as Harry Young who, under the disguise of a respectable cafe owner, has become the king of the notorious London underworld. He has a tender dovotion for Jean Parker, a Limehouse waif, who ho is protecting, but she arouses the jealousy of Anna May Wong who is devoted to Raft. When Jean Parker falls in love with Kent Taylor, and out of devotion to Raft attempts to suppress that love, Anna May Wong reveals her secret to Raft. Raft, blinded by jealousy, lays ctlrcful plans to do away with Kem But at the labt moment he discovers that the happiness of the girl he loves means more than even her returning his love. Defying a trap which the London “bobbies’. 1 have set for him, Raft races to right his almost fatal error and in the close of tho picture, after a gripping climax, the lovers arc happily reunited. Montagu Love is prominently cast in a supporting role 6f “Limehouse Blues.” Alexander Hall, director of the smash success, “Little Miss Marker, directed tho film.