ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 182, 2 July 1938, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “LIFE BEGINS IN COLLEGE.” “Life Begins in College,” Twentieth Century-Fox musical smash, stars the : comedy-mad 'Ritz Brothers and features Joan Davis, Tony Marlin and Gloria Stuart, and a tremendous cast. Augmented by the sensational song hits of Low Pollack and Sidney D. Mitchell , which include “Why Talk About Love?", j “Big Chief Swing It,” “The Rhumba j Goes Collegiate,” “Our Team Is On the j Warpath,” and “Fair Lombardy,” together with “Sweet Varsity Sue” by ! Charles Tobias, Al Lewis and Murray I Moncher, “Lifo Begins in College” moves along on a tidal wave of giddy gags, gorgeous girls, songsters and steppers. 'Tlio mad merry maniacs of “Sing, Baby, Sing,” “On the Avenue” and “You Can’t Have Everything” have the time of their lives in a throo-Rilz circus of the wildest, maddest gags ever put over. They are pants pressers working their way through college and they upset all past traditions with their riotous antics. But that’s only J the beginning of the fun. Comic-faced 1 Joan Davis is on a heart-hunt for a poor Indian witli 10,000 dollars a day to spend, and during tho chase staggers around on her rubber legs in a manner that incites rib-tickling laughter. It is red-headed Joan’s greatest role. Thoro’s Tony Martin, youthful and handsome, leading tho band and singing tho Pollack and Mitohell song hits. There’s Gloria Stuart catching up with romance amid a sotting of oampus frolios and musical jamborees, while gorgeous girls sway to swingablo rhythms in breath-taking dance ensembles surrounding the amusing plot. “THE LADY IN THE MORGUE.”

For positively eerio suspenso that keeps you on tenterhooks till the law gets"its prey in the last scone, sec Universal’s thriller, “The Lady in the Morgue,” now showing at the Kosy Theatre. This screen version of Jonathan Latimer’s, celebrated Crime Club novel is a grade A baffler, with more twisted clues, zestful roughhouse and picturesque characters than have been soon on the scroen in a month of Sundays.' Chief among these characters is Detective Bill Crane, the hardboilqtl, pleasantly alcoholic sleuth. 110 is played by Preston Foster, who created this character on the screon in “The Westland Case.” Foster is simply grand in tho part, as is Frank Jenks in the role of Crane’s clownish assistant, Doc Williams. Patricia Ellis does a swell job ns the girl in the case and Tom Jackson is very amusing as a numskull officer of the law. Crane gets into the plot when a girl’s body is found hanging on a lodging house and the cops call it suicide. Crane thinks the body may be that of the daughter of a wealthy client. When lie goes to view the body, it vanishes from the morgue and the morgue keeper is slain. Crane discovers the girl was murdered, not a suicide. By' means of some red hairs found in the dead morgue keeper’s hand, he traces the missing body and the events march rapidly to a thrilling climax. “The Lady in the Morgue” is so skilfully worked out that it defies the shrewdest amateur detective in the audtpnc-j to pick the killer in advance.

MAYFAIR THEATRE. “THEY WON’T FORGET.” “They Won’t Forgot,” a Mervyn Le Roy film production which aroused a tremendous amount of discussion at its previews and after its subsequent showings, is now screening at the Mayfair Theatre. Based upon tho sensational Ward Greene novel, “Death in the Deep South,” this picture, presented by Warner Bros., has for its theme the question of whether or not an innocent man may bo hurried to a murder conviction on circumstantial evidence—plus a spirit of hatred aroused by an evilly ambitious prosecutor who wants to win the ease for the sake of personal publicity. According to tlie storv told by “They Won’t Forget,” tho answer is “Yes.” The movie is described as sensational in its daring and in the performance of its players. Claude Rains—always the thorough-going villain —plays the part of the unscrupulous district attorney, and is said to outdo himself in earning the hatred of audiences. Edward Norris, handsome young leading man, appears as a. Northern, U.S.A., school teacher in h southern jtown, who is charged with tho murder of one of his young pupils. His performance is described as winning and sympathetic. Gloria Dixon, a 20-year-old newcomer to the screen, who was discovered by.-Loßoy playing a stage production for the U.S.A. Government Theatre Project in Los Angelos, makes her first movie appearance as tho teacher's faithful and undoubting wife. She is said to be headed for stardom. Lana Turner, a Hollywood High School youngster of only 17, is seen briefly as the murder victim, and she, too, is said to be full of promise. Otto Kruger, star of both stago and film, has the role of a Northern attorney who tries vainly to save tho voung teacher from conviction. Others with important parts include Allyn Josl.yn, Linda Perry, Elisha Cook, jnr., Leonard Mudio and Clinton Rosamond,