ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 176, 25 June 1938, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

METEOR THEATRE. “LOVE IS 1 NEWS.” The standardisation that ~ has taken place in a good many of the characters frequently seen on the screen is best exemplified in the newspaper reporter, a type which Tay Garnett, director of tho Twentieth Century-Fox hit. “Love Is News,” now showing at the Meteor Theatre, declares he has clone his best to got away from in * this comedy, of nows and publicity. “The trouble with screen papeifnen,” says Director Garnett, ‘is that they have taken just one rare type out of the city room and ignored the rest. The cynical, worldly-wise, iconocldstic member of the Fourth Eat ate is not at all representative of his fellows.” The average reporter, according to Garnett, could quite easily be mistaken for a doctor, banker or business man, but, ho adds, if these nows-hawks were pictured on tho screen as they really are, audionoos would be quite disappointed. “However,” declared Garnett, “in ‘Love Is News,’ which stars Tyrone Power, Loretta Young \and Don A mooli e, we’ve made several steps toward realism without sacrificing too much of the romantic stereotype.” KOSY THEATRE. “VENTRIX.” To-night a special treat is in store for the patrons of the Kosy Theatre in the person of “Ventrix,” well-known southern ventriloquist, who will present from his large repertoire a number of special items for the adults and children in association with his * famous doll Jerry. “Ventrix” has appeared in the Tivoli Theatres in Sydney and Melbourne, and has just completed a long engagement in Brisbane. The Kosy Theatre management assures the patrons that this is a delightful and humorous interlude and has been specially selected for their entertainment. “THE ‘CRIME’ OF DR. HALLET ” *The ‘Crime’ of Dr. Hallet” is a powerful and poignant picture. It tears at the heart strings and holds the interest from the moment that Dr. Ilallett is first seen fighting a tragic misunderstanding in his Sumatran jungle laboratory, until the moment when he plucks victory and love from the jaws of defeat and the snares of -hatred. The story of this picture concerns a battle of elemental love and hate, with men and women aroused to primal emotion at fever heat, against a background of heroic martrydom to science. Hallet goes to Sumatra to find a fever cure, and falls in love with his woman assistant, Dr. Reynolds. When Dr. Saunders, another assistant, dies through an imperfect experiment, Hallet takes his name to carry on his work to fulfilment. Then Saunders’s wife, Claire, arrives and threatens exposure. Ralph Bellamy is outstanding as Dr. ITallet. William Gargan, as his ironical assistant, revels in one of the picture’s best roles. Josephine Hutchinson, as Hal let’s sweetheart, Dr. Reynolds, gives a touching portrayal, while Barbara Read, as Claire, and John King as the idealistic Dr. Saunders, round out a most convincing cast. S. Sylvan Simon’s direction is grand. “PLEASE, TEACHER.” ' Laughter-laden situations abound in the new Associated Production, “Please, Teacher,” a screen* version of the record London musical comedy success with Bobby Howes, Wylie Watson, Vera Pearce and Bertha Belmore in their original roles, now showing at the Kosy Theatre. Imagine irrepressible Bobby Howes as the young and' impecunious Tommy Deacon, who masquerades as an Anglo-Indian ill order to got into a girls’ school ‘to recover a missing legacy. with topee and khaki shorts, and carrying a inallet, ho gets into a bewildering conversation with a real Anglo-Indian and becomes hopelessly mixed up with monsoons and !