ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 229, 26 August 1938, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAYFAIR THEATRE. “LIVE, LOVE AND LEARN.” Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russel! in their first screen appearance together since iheir joint triumph in “Night Must Fall,” are the stars of “Live, Love anti Learn,’' coming to the Mayfair Theatre 10-morrotv, with Robert Benchley and Helen Vinson topping an outstanding supporting cast. As a penniless young Greenwich Village arlist who marries a rich society girl, wins startling success overnight, is lionised by the “400, ”■ and loses his bead, his talents —and almost his wife—Montgomery is offered the greatest opportunity of his career to display all his genius for comedy and melodrama., Miss Russell, as the rich society girl who renounces wealth and position to •share the harurn scarum life of a Greenwich Village Bohemian artist and who watches wealth ruin the fine talents of the man she married, lias been provided with a vehicle which permits her full scope to show the world why Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer made her a star. Fidelity of setting called forth all the talents of technical experts. A Greenwich Village studio in New York plays an important part in early sequences of. the story. In strong contrast with the shabby garret sequences arc the magnificent, settings used for the period when Montgomery’s sudden affluence prompts him to live beyond his means. One of the largest supporting casts to feature a Hollywood production in many months is headed by Benchley and Miss Vinson. Benchley, famous for his comedy shorts and humorous writings, plays the role of “Oscar,” Montgomery’s bibulous boon companion. Miss Vinson, whose blonde glamour has won her outstanding roles in many pictures, is cast as “Lily,” friend of Miss Russell’s, who tries to take Montgomery. away from his wife. Others in important roles include Mickey Rooney, one of Hollywood’s favourite juvenile actors, Monty Woolley from the Broadway musical comedy nit, “On Your Toes,” E. E. Clive, Charles Judels, Maude Eburne, Harlan Briggs, June Clay worth and A 1 Shean. The direction of “Live, Love and Learn” was entrusted to the veteran director, George Fitzmaurice on the basis of his outstanding work in many of Hollywood’s four star successes.

KOSY THEATRE. “CASSIDY OF BAR 20.” Ilopalong Cassidy’s past, in the person of Nora Lane, returns to hurl into breathless adventure in Clarence E. Mulford’s latest outdoor action story, Paramount’s “Cassidy of Bar 20.” When New Mexico’s king of cattle-rustlers, Robert. Fiske, goes so far as to try and make off with the property of Miss Lane, “Happy’s” old sweetheart, the Bar 20 boys go into action and crush him together with bis lawless band of Texas border ruffians. In his role of the hard-riding rancher, William Boyd is assisted by Russell Hayden. Frank Darien, John Elliot and Margaret Marquis, in this picture which lias its first local showing at the Kosy Theatre to-day. “TIP-OFF GIRLS.” A romance between the secretary nl America’s leading racketeer and a G-man whose job is to crush the dangerous gang forms the exciting love plot of “Tip-Off Girls,” now showing at the Kosy Theatre. Mary Carlisle, the pearl blonde slur who is known as Bing Crosby’s favourite leading lady, plays the girl who unwittingly becomes the tool—nf the hi-jacking gang, while Lloyd Nolan,, the “had man” of “Wells Fargo,” is the G-man who releases her from her trap. This picture is Hollywood’s answer to the racket which has mushroomed throughout the country during the past few years and threatens to take bootlegging’s placo as “Public Nuisance No. 1.” Louis King, who brought the dramatic “Bulldog Drummond” pictures to the screen, directed.