ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 6, 4 December 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

/ 'MAYFAIR THEATRE. “SHE MARRIED HER BOSS.” According to all reports. these aro happy days at the Mayfair Theatre where Claudette Colbert is holding forth in her newest picture, "She Married Her Boss,” Jaded spirits are being revived and worldly woes forgotten as audiences permit the charming star to amuse them in her second Columbia picture. Since winning the Academy award with her performance in the famed “It Happened One Night,” produced by the same company which gives you her current attraction, Miss Colbert has concentrated more on drama than comedy; but now she throws' off the traces once again and goes to town in delightful fashion. In “She Married Her Boss,” Claudette is seen as an ultra-competent private secretary who indiscreetly falls in love with her boss; the title gives some hint of what happens, but not enough, for the marriage is only the start of’ her grief. Tho boss, played by Melvyn Douglas, trios to take advantage of her efficiency and apply it to his demoralised household as woll as to the office, and that’s where the excitement starts. A precocious nine-year-old daughter, a neurasthenic sister and a welt on his soul left by a previous marriage—added to the usual number of business troubles—does not make the boss a very cheery sort, and the poor secretary has plenty to contend with just as soon -as the wedding band is on her linger. Michael Bartlett, as a light-hearted young man-about-town, docs nis best to lead Miss Colbert out of her trouble and into his arms. A scene they play in tho window of a department store is one of tho film’s highlights. Edith Follows, a child star who is not a protege but an intelligent actress, Raymond Walburn, Jean Dixon, Katherine Alexander and others also support Miss Colboft. Gregory La Cava directed, from tho screen play by Sidney Bucliman. “BULLDOG DRUMMOND STRIKES BACK.”

“Sapper’s” most thrilling story of the advenun&s of Bulldog Drummond, “Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back,” is the second attraction, and features such wellknown players as Roland Colman, Warner Oland, Loretta Young and Una Merkel.

STATE THEATRE. “CALLING ALL STARS.” “Calling All Stars,” the triumph of 1937 with a score of lavish musical, radio and variety acts, will be presented at tho State to-night. Often enough in the past have cinemas claimed that they aro presenting tho perfect entertainment. Probably this is the first time that such a claim,can be justified by facts. Look at these angles of this grand picture: If you want music there aro Ambrose and his orchestra, Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Orpheans, Eugeno Pini and his orchestra, and A 1 Craig and his band. For lilting songs rendered by the top-notchers in their field there aro Evelyn Hall, the blonde bombshell of rhythm, Turner Layton and the Three Canadian Bachelors. Thrills? The Boga Four have an amazing acrobatic act, the Whirlwind Skaters in a turn tho like of which has never been filmed before. Humour? Listen and laugh with Billy Bennett, Flotsam and Jetsam, Revnoil and West, Leon Cortez and his Coster Band, Buck and Bubbles, arid _ Davy Burnaby. You like dancing ? There is brilliant tap-dancing by the famous Nicholas Brothors, beautiful ballroom dancing by the Twelve Aristocrats. And lastly—something you will never forgot—Larry Adler, virtribso of tho mouthorgan—in musical Wizardry of tho type that will live forovor. Combine all these, add a clever story, photograph the whole in lavish and beautiful sot-tings, and you have the ideal film entertainment “Calling All Stars.” Also Screening is a first-class array of featurottes.