ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 124, 24 April 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “CHARLIE CHAN ON BROADWAY.” You’ve seen him solve murders in distant lands! Now he’s home again, and the most baffling ease of all confronts him! Feel your nerves tingle with suspense as grim death lurks behind the gaiety of a Broadway night club while lovely girlo dance to syncopating rhythm! Grip your seats as Chan follows the clue of the candid camera along the Great White Way to trap the killer! You'll experience your greatest thrill —satisfied that you've seen the greatest Chan picture ever made! “Charlie Chan on Broadway,” starring Warner Oland, J. Edward Bromberg, Joan Marsh, Louise Henry, Joan Woodbury and Donald Woods.

“Break The Nows,” produced and directed by Rene Clair and starring Jack Buchanan and .Maurice Chevalier, is to be presented at the Kosy Theatre to-day. A Jack Buchanan Productions’ picture, “Break The News” presents these two famous stars of stage and screen in a story which affords them _ exceptional scope for their combined brilliant talent, as well as providing excellent material for the well-known genius of Rene Clair. This eminent director says that this story is the only' one he has found in the past two years that has really appealed to him. Jack Buchanan and Maurice Chevalier appear as two chorus boys who are suddenly given a chance to do a double act in a spectacular show produced by a woman actor-manager—portrayed by June Knight.

REGENT THEATRE “RULERS OF THE SEA.” Frank Lloyd, renowned producer*director of many screen masterpieces, offers a new motion picture—one which is being hailed universally as his greatest. Entitled “Rulers of the Sen,” it stars Douglas Fairbanks, Junr.. Margaret Lockwood, Will Fyffe, the great Scottish character actor, and feature ssuch favourites as George Bancroft and Montagu I.ove. Gloriously and magnificently, in the inimitable manner of Frank Lloyd, it relates the story of the firsttriumphs of steam over sail. It tells of the dream of a Scottish inventor, who believes (hat he has perfected a steam engine capable of driving a ship across the Atlantic. And it shows two young people, two youngsters desperately in love —his daughter and a young first mate disgusted with the brutal treatment of crew on sailing ships—helping to bring that dream to triumphant realisation. Fairbanks is cast as the failing man. Margaret Lockwood as the inventor’s daughter, and‘the great Will F.yffc is seen as the inventor in this outstanding Paramount production.