ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 73, 23 February 1938, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE, “EVERY NIGHT AT EIGHT.’’ The brightest, spot of light entertainment in town can be found now showing at the Kosy Theatre, when “Every Night At Eight” is holding merry, musical sway. Highly hilarious, with tuneful toe-tapping and an orignality of story that is refreshing as an air-cooled theatre on a sweltering summer day. “Every Night At Eight” proves to bo as bluos chasing, heart-warming a piece of funny business as has come along in a month of musicals. The pieturo opens on a gay note with Frances Langford, Alice Faye and Patsy Kelly as three factory workers who lose their jobs through practising harmony singing in the boss’s office, Penniless, they try their luck as a singing trio on an amateur radio hour. At the radio station they lost the prize to George, Raft who appears this time in a new kind of dramatic role, that of a conceited band leader. Attracted to tho girls and seeing their possibilities, lie starts them on their, career as the Swanee Sisters. Ho builds them up to a trio of sweet, unsophisticated Southern girls, makes them dress alike, look alike, and in general manages their lives for them. Under Raft’s severe discipline they rise front their amateur standing to queens of the air waves. When Miss Langford believes that Raft does not return her love, she rebels with the other two girls, deserts the nightly broadcast and goes off on a yachting party. A climax, packed with thrills, romance and action, brings the trio to their senses.

“THE SKY PARAtfE.” Thrilling you with his daring exploits —Jimmy Allen, lioro of millions of radio fans and air adventures, makes his initial screen appearance at the Kosy Theatre in a picture packed with daring sky exploits to thrill you. METEOR THEATRE. “GIRLS’ DORMITORY.” One of the most important cinema events in years will take place, screening tomight at the Meteor Theatre when an exciting new personality, Si mono Simon (pronounced Sco-Moan Sec-Moun), makes her debut in 1 tho Twentieth Century-Fox production, “Girls’ Dormitory.’.’ Warm, yoUng, refreshing and vital, with distinct magnetic appeal and rare, strange beauty, Miss Simon is being acclaimed the meet important discovery in recent screen history. Herbert Marshall and Ruth Chatterton are starred with her, in an exceptional cast that features Constance Collier, J. Edward Bromberg, Dixie Dunbar, John Qualen and Shirley Deane. The film opens in an exclusive boarding school. Herbert Marshall is the director of the school, Ruth Chattcrton, Constance Collier, J. Edward Bromberg are important members of the faculty. The students are all youhg girls in their late ’teens and all are daughters of wealthy families, sent to the school to complete their education. Beyond walls barred to men, the girls are taught and schooled in everything except what the rules forbid —life and love. _ It is but a short time before graduation, Simone, a remarkably beautiful girl, is about to leavo the surroundings she has known for years —and tho • man she has youthfully loved almost as long, Herbert Marshall. On a dare, Simone asks Marshall to dance with her at a school social event. He refuses the girl and, ashatned at the rebuff, sho runs off, to return just as a searching party is setting out to look for her. Ruth Chattcrton is also m love with Marshall, but she conceals her affection behind an appearance of friendly cooperation. IMAYFAIR THEATRE., “THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINES.” The first all-colour picture of the outdoors, “Tho Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” screens at. the Mayfair Theatre tonight. Syivia Sidney, Fred MacMufray and Henry Fonda arc stai’rCd, and Henry Hathway,'who directed “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” megaphoned the techrucoiour production. Ndtural colour _ ana natural backgrounds arc used exclusively in this picturisation of the John Fox, juttr. novel. It is a story of 1 feuding m the Cumberland mountains, where family battles family for reasons long since forgotten. Mac Murray is a young engineer who is assigned to build a iailway through the hills. Miss Sidney and Fonda are members of the same clan, and Fonda is in love with the girl. She is fascinated by a stranger from tho outside world, and Fonda’s jealousy is aroused. He sets out to “get”" Mac Murray—but simultaneously the rival clan sets out to “get” him. A battle royal ensues when they all get together, bringing the film to a stirring climax. Walter Wangcr produced the film for Paramount.