ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 160, 8 June 1939, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. "KING OF GAMBLERS.” ii A drama-filled expose of the slot- •- uracil ino racket—with no punches pulled ! r That's n one-sen toned preview uf the - thrill-pocked motion picture now showing a at the Kosy Theatre. It's Rarainount’s I "King of Gamblers,” and it features a e top-ranking cast of stars including Claire - Trevor. Akim Tamiroff, the war lord of - “The General Died at Dawn”; Lloyd t Nolan, the outlaw of “Texas Rangers"; . l’orler Hall, Helen Burgess, Larry Cradle 1 and others. It will keep you on the edge r of your seat while every foot of its collu--1 loid action is unrolled ! You’ll see a story 1 familiar throughout America, told on the 1 screen for the You’ll see how i cue man can hold a whole cit yin his fist. - You’ll see how gang killings develop, t how vice kingdoms arc built- —and how i politics and gamblers can go hand in i hand. Don’t liiiss "King of Gamblers.” i It’s movie dynamite 1 s "LET’S MAKE A MILLION.” T*ho trouble one man's bonus got hiip into is hilariously portrayed in Pura--1 mount’s “Let's Make a Million,” a guy ‘ comedy with Edward Kverolt Ilorton, ’ which is now showing at Uio Kosy Theatre. STATE THEATRE. “THE MIKADO.” I 1 or 60 years the bitting wit and bon mots of ex-civil servant and dramatic critic Sir William Gilbert and the Jibing music of Sir Arthur Sullivan have limned the world. Somewhere one of Hie much loved operas ol tnese two lanious gem,email its always being enacted. The jLipert D’Uyly Carlo Opera Company euoItosiy tours rang.and and makes periodical visits to tile Dominions. The first of the i Gilbert and Sullivan operas to appear on the screen is “The Mikado.” Geoffrey Dove, responsible lor the adaption and | production of the iilm version, decided that he could look no furl her for his cast than members of the D’Uyly Carte Opera Company. So, with the'exception of Jean Colin, musical comedy and radio star who has made one or two film appearances, “The Mikado’s’’ cast comprises a number of people who have never before been inside a motion picture studio. Jjul what they don’t know about Gilbert and Sullivan isn’t worth mentioning. Kenny Bilker, the American screen actor and radio star, of course, plays Nanki-Roo, and Jean Colin will be the screen's YiuuYum. The role of “The Mikado” will be enacted by John Barclay, familiar concert and musical comedy figure in England and slightly known in America. Constance W illis. who plays Katisha. is a noted concert and opera singer with numerous appearances at Covcnt Carden and Sadler’s Wells to her credit. Elizabeth Bay liter (Bitti-Sing) has played with the IJ’Oyly Carte Opera Co. for five and a-half i years and is well-known in English radio circles. Martyn Green (Ko-Ko) also Inns considerable Gilbert and Sullivan experience. Both Gregory Stroud (Eish-Ttislt) and Sydney Granville (Rooh-Bah) have loured Australia with flic D’Oyly Carte mmpunicH and are vciy well-known in England. Parts of the Gilbert dialogue and Sullivan music have been transferred from the opera to the prologue, but, tbere is no word sung or spoken in the film that Gilbert did not write; no note of music is played or omitted that Sullivan did not compose.