PALMERSTON PICTURE PROGRAMMES

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6619, 4 August 1931, Page 5

PALMERSTON PICTURE PROGRAMMES

KOSY THEATRE. 700 TRUCKS OF SUPPLIES USED FOR FILM CAMP “THE SPOILERS" More than 700 truck loads of equipment supplies and building material were transported 70 miles from Hollywood, for construction of the mile long setting, used by Paramount for “The Spoilers,” which shows at the Kosy theatre to-morrow. The set duplicates in.faithful detail, the town of Home, Alaska, as it was 30 years ago, the time of Rex Beach’s classic adventure story. This new city of Nome was constructed on an open stretch of beach front, at Point Hueneme, California, near the little farming town of Oxnard. A company of 250 players and technicians lived in these tents and houses of Home, all during the weeks the troupe was away ou location. Gary Cooper is featured at the head of an important cast in “The Spoilers,” the supporting players including Kay Johnson, Betty Compson, Harry Green, William Boyd, “Slim” Sumerville ana James Kirkwood. Edwin Carewe directed.

AT THE REGENT. LAST NIGHT OF “HALF SHOT AT SUNRISE” Wheeler and Woolsey will make their final bow to Regent patrons to-night in their popular niirtkquako “Half Shot at Sunrise.” ‘‘Tons of Money” To-morrow. Humour is Devastating. Hot quite consistent with the times maybe, but magnificent clown of “Rookery Nook” and “Plunder,” Ralph Lynn, hands out a laugh with every note —probably more—in his first sole starring effort, “Tons of Money," at the Regent theatre to-morrow. The picture, introduces Lynn as a philandering “silly ass” who’s blasting powder has done nothing more than blasted his fortunes. .A brother in Mexico, however, dies and wills 150,000 good English pounds to his .beloved brother, and Ralph finds himself the proud possessor of “Tons of Money.” But ail is not necessarily well that commences well, and it is Aubrey’s (Lynn) wife’s philosophy that reasons out that tons of money can be prevailed upon by tons of creditors until it is scarcely tons of money—not even cwts. of it —at all. Plans arc on view at the Central Booking Office. Phono 7178.

PALACE THEATRE. A CONFESSION. "PARLOUR, BEDROOM AND BATH.” A confession: I hereby duly state that the funniest picture that I have over seen in my life is the ncAV Mctro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring mirthquake for Buster Keaton—‘‘Parlour, Bedroom and Bath,” Avhiek is now at the Palace Theatre.—Yours sincerely, A Patron. Editor's note: This production will have its linal screening at the Palace to-night. ‘‘Her Wedding Night” First-class Entertainment. Clara Boav, the breathless, flaming red-head, Sheets Gallagher, Charlie Eugglcs, Ralph Forbes and Eosit.a Moreno, the charming hcroino of ‘ ‘ The Santa Fe Trail,” arc prominently cast in the new Paramount farce comedy, ‘‘Her Wedding Night,” coming to the Palace Theatre to-morrow. ‘‘Her Wedding Night” is lirst-class, honest-to-goodness entertainment that gets more hearty laughs than any other Clara Bow picture since the advent of talking pictures. Concerned for the most part with a marriage mix-up in which Clara marries one man and gets two husbands for her trouble, “Her Wedding Night” is carried along to a breezy and happy conclusion by the peppery, up-to-the-minute dialogue and the splendid work of those tvvo incomparable comedians, Gallagher and Ruggles. The picture’s action takes place in France, where our Clara, a famous actress with time on her hands and money to spend, becomes acquainted with Skeets Gallagher. And no sonoer does she know Skeets than the trouble begins. Hilarious, divertingly gay trouble that enables Clara and her supporting cast to have the time of their lives. From the moment that she finds herself married to Skoets, and the wife of another man, Clara is a riot of fun, playing Avith evident enthusiasm and skill. As the debonair troublemaker who marries Clara, and yet turns, out not to be her husband, Skeets Gallagher, as in many other recent Paramount comedies, reveals himself as one of the screen’s outstanding funsters. In his droll, easy-going manner, Skeets is a delight to see and listen to. Charlie Ruggles, as Sheet’s partner in fun, is also grandly comical as the well-meaning friend who tries frantically. to patch up Clara’s turbulent romance. And Ralph Forbes, who turns out to bo. Clara’s husband, and rather likes tke idea, is handsome and romantic :in a good role.