ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 1 September 1938, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAYFAIR THEATRE. “STOLEN HEAVEN.” Olympe Bradna, hailed as Paramount s “find of the year.” will be at the Mayfair Theatre to-morrow in her first starring vehicle, “Stolen .Heaven,” a heart-warming story which brings out all the innocent charm and vivacity of the young French actress who is headed toward the top of -the Hollywood ladder. Blonde Gene Raymond has the lead opposite Olympe in a film which brings something new in motion picture technique, the interweaving of dramatic action with music. Set to the background music of the world’s’ greatest composers, the film has something that has been missing from the screen since -the long remembered “Seventh Heaven, a delightful combination of young love woven around a strong dramatic story. Olympe and Gene, jewel thieves, are temporarily forced to abondon their career when the police chase them to a forest hide-out. Here they find a once great pianist, Lewis Stone, living for the day when lie can once more ascend the concert stage, but beset by the fear that he is 100 old to ever appear again. Ho offers them the first refuge they have ever known, and unknowingly helps them plan and build for a new life. They devote all their energies to planning a spectacular “comeback” for the talented pianist, but a dramatic climax is reached as the young couple’s former confederates arrive at the cottage and plead with them lo flee the forest and get out of the country. The temptation to return to the old life is strong, but a decision must bo reached. The old maestro depends on Olympe to accompany kim on the concert stage for his recital. KOSY THEATRE. “SUNSET PASS.” “Sunset Pass,” latest Zane Grey story to be put into films, is now showing at the Kosy Theatre. A large all-star cast, headed by Randolph Scott, Tom Keene, Kathleen Burke, Noah Bcerv, Harry Carey and Kent Taylor, is featured in the picture. “Sunset Pas” is the story of a cattlemen’s association deputy who is assigned to run down a gang of cattle rustlers. He goes to prison voluntarily, and mingles with the convicts. I<rom them he gathers information and escapes. in a saloon the deputy aids a young ranchman in subduing a couple of self-styled “bad-men,” and accepts his offer of a job. On the ranch, lie makes himself invaluable, and' is soon a trusted aide of his employer. Soon, too. he is in love with the latter’s attractive sister. But the dues gathered in prison’point to the brother as the leader of the rustlers, and the deputy is confronted by a desperate situation. In the events that follow the picture reaches a thrilling cont-lusion. Tom Keene' plays the role of the deputy, with Randolph Scott as the rancher and Kathleen Burke as his sister. Among it 9 numerous thrilling scenes are a raging prairie fire, a mad stampede of an enormous herd of cattle, and plenty of hard riding and bitter gunplay. “PEOPLE WILL TALK,” “People Will 'Talk” is the second attraction now showing at the Kosy Theatre. LAWRENCE TIBBETT. STAR OF OPERA, CONCERT AND SCREEN. Lawrence Tibbctt, famous star of concert, opera and screen, who will bo heard in Palmerston North next Saturday night, knows what the public wants and mgly puts over unusual . novelties m hiconcerto on his own high plane. A glance at his programmes will show versatility which they demand. And Tibbctt meets that demand with the full assurance of ample reserve still there. He gives his best, but such a varied best as to present something individual and appealing to each listener in his audiences. libbett is modern and of our day. His selections proclaim that he is cosmopolitan m his tastes, and one who dares to forsake the conventional. Even the most hackneyed and worn-out piece becomce something entirely different and entirely beautiful when he sings it. All that ho touches turns to gold in the crucible of Tibbett’s crenius. This great artist sings anas, art songs, lieder and ballade in his recitals as though each were hie forte. It is hard to tell which branch of his audience do-lio-hts the more in his singing—the profoundly musical or the unmusical. who know 'a good thing when they hear it. The. aura of Tibbett’s personality and the rainbow-range of hie repertoire aro the precious ingredients of his wondrous tonepaintings.