PALMERSTON PICTURE PROGRAMMES

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7062, 23 January 1933, Page 8

PALMERSTON PICTURE PROGRAMMES

REGENT THEATRE CLARK GABLE IN "RED DUST” AND PITTS-TODD COMEDY The brutal, fever-bound, dangerous, but withal glamorous existence of life on a rubber plantation in Indo-China is revealed in all its dramatic perspective in "Rod Dust,” which will conclude to-night at the Regent Theatre as a co-starring vehicle for ClaTlc Gable and Jean Harlow. Apparently no effort was spared to bring the Wilson Collison stage hit to the screen with all its original power. To put it mildly, this picture has “everything,” from sizzling lovo scenes between Gable and the seductive Miss Harlow, to intensely exciting situations in which tho entire cast is involved. Shots of terrific jungle storms and hurricanes that sweep through the littledcnown locale of tho story provide many breath-tak-ing thrills. If there ever was a perfectly cast picture, it is this one. Gable offers a brilliant performance as the brutalised plantation overseer, who repulses a girl of his own sort when an engineer brings his beautiful young wife to the tropics. Tho supporting programme comprises an uproariously laughable comedy, entitled “Sealskins,” which stars that irrepressible pair of merrymakers, Zasu Pitts and Thelma Todd; a Mctrotone News and a Fox News. A P. G. Wodehouse Story, "Brother Alfred” For hilarious fun, “Brother Alfred,” the P. G. Wodehouse comedy coming to the Regent Theatre to-morrow evening, would be hard to boat. Gene Gcrrard, who is in tho role of Alfred and George, makes a great hit. As George ho commits an assault on an exalted personage, and to escape tho consequences adopts the role of a twin brother Alfred, a mole being supposed to be the distinguishing mark between the pair. Before tho unfortunate incident on the yacht, on which most of the comedy is staged, he becomes betrothed to a charming girl, Molly Lamont. There is a scene in a famous restaurant at Monte Carlo, where tho assault takes place, and where a cabaret troupe dances gaily. Then the time arrives when Alfred finds it necessary to become George once more, and there are some ludicrous situations before ho is able to satisfy his friends and more important still, his fiancee, that he is indeed George. Bobbie Comber and Elsie Randolph give excellent support. The programme includes a Pathe News and Magazine, and a travelogue of tho civilisation of Africa. It tells of the pioneer work done by Cecil Rhodes, the Empire builder, and the building of the Cape to Cairo railway. ROSY THEATRE BUCK JONES’S HORSE SILVER SHARES MASTER’S GLORY For a number of years Silver has been as necessary to the success of a Buck Jones’s starring picture as the actor himself. Silver is Buck’s beautiful full-blooded Arabian horse, the white stallion who has shared his master’s cinema exploits in dozens of Western thrillers. Their latest dual appearance is in "Ono Man Law,” the Rosy Theatro attraction. Although born and reared in Southern California Silver is instinctively used to deserts and rough country, which explains his aptitude for dashing through Tugged western scenery. His swimming and jumping ability, hoivevcr, is duo to his master’s careful and conscientious training. Silver, although fourteen years old, has many more years of picture -work, according to Buck Jones. The finest of care and constant instruction are keeping him in excellent trim. He comes to work in a speciallybuilt truck, and Silver’s stables arc the most elaborate in California. “One Man Law" also features Shirley Grey, lovely blonde heroine of “Texas Cyclone,” Robert Ellis, Henry Sedley, Ed. Le Sainte, Ernio Adams and Ric-hard Alexander. Chapter four of “Jungle Mystery” sees the main characters in this African story through further startling adventures, the balance of the supporting programme being made up of Screen Snapshots, a MonkeyShine comedy, in which all the parts are played by monkeys, cartoons and a news reel.

PALACE THEATRE

HOLLYWOOD SECRETS REVEALED IN UPROARIOUS COAIEDY

Local theatregoers -who have seen “Once in a Lifetime,” Universal's hilarious satire on Hollywood film production, which is now playing at the Palace Theatre, have learned a great deal about the secrets of tho motion picture studios in the motion picture capital. This startlingly funny screen play not only invades the sacred precincts of the sound stages during the production of a picture, but it takes the audience into the private offices of the executives, where the allegedly fantastic business policies of the film moguls areheld up to biting ridicule. The settings of “Once in a Lifetime” are no less fantastic than the action, picturing the studio offices with just enough exaggeration to make them ridiculous and altogether laughable. Everything, including both furnishings and architecture, is ultra-modern to the last degree. The story concerns itself principally with a trio of small-time vaudeville actors who enter the motion picture industry on the crest of tho wave of confusion attending the advent of tho talking picture, with tho “dumb” member of the trio finally hailed as the genius of Hollywood. This role is played by Jack Oakie, and other members of the cast of “Once in a Lifetime” are Sidney Fox, Aline AlacAlahon, Russell Hopton, Zasu Pitts, Louise Fazenda, Onslow Stevens and Gregory Ratoff. Additional subjects comprise a “Pooch the Pup” cartoon entitled, “The Underdog”; an item of "The Strange as it Seems” series, and two Grahamc AlcNamee News Reels.