PALMERSTON PICTURE PROGRAMMES

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7246, 28 August 1933, Page 10

PALMERSTON PICTURE PROGRAMMES

PALACE THEATRE RENATE MULLER IN “MARRY ME” “Marry Me,” a brilliant Gainsborough comedy, which brings Renate Muller, the “Sunshine Susie’ ’girl, back to the screen, was the feature subject in the bright new programme presented at the Palace theatre on Saturday. Written by Frank Schultz, and directed by the famous Continental producer, William Thiele, “Marry Me’ 'is a riot of mirth from start to finish. Three notable comedians, George Robey, Harry Green and Billy Caryll, are the principal fun-makers. Green’s Hebrew comedy is well exploited as the director ■of a modern matrimonial agency, unu Robey is inimitable as a bride-seeking Hungarian pig-farmer. lan Hunter, Maurice Evans and Charles Hawtrey, junior, are three bright young men who occupy a flat, while Renate Muller is a designing young woman who visits the apartment, and embarks on a vigorous spring cleaning. The play abounds in catchy numbers, such as the theme song, “So, Will Somebody, Somebody Marry Me,” “Early Birds,” “A Little Sunshine,” “To-day I Feel So Happy” and “You’re So Wonderful to Me.” The star picture is supported by several admirably chosen subjects and the whole programme provides decidedly worth-while entertainment that is calculated to appeal to the majority of the picture-going public. REGENT THEATRE A MUSICAL COMEDY AND STAGE PRESENTATION Everyone laughed for a solid hour at tho whimsical musical farce, "It’s Great to Be Alive,” a Fox fantasy of the most delicious order, which opened on Saturday at the Regent theatre. Apart from the humour of the picture, it introduces a new and handsome singing star in Raoul Roulien, who acts and sings with youthful freshness and spontaneity. He figures in the picture as Carlos Martin. Worshipped by women, Carlos at length becomes engaged to Dorothy Wilton, daughter of an eminent scientist During the time Carlos is trying to explain away his cheerful waywardness with her sex, Dr. Wilton is trying to find a way to check the awful scourge masculitis, which is wiping out the male sex in the Orient. When Dorothy finds Carlos guilty for the nth time, she breaks with him, and he, in despair, threatens to \y the Pacific, and in the face of her jwers does so—and becomes lost. Years pass—and so does man. The epidemic gets them all. It is a world of women. Then an aviatrix spots a real man on a desert island, and. reports her find to the U.S. Government. A warship is sent to secure him, but is forestalled by a daring gangstress in a seaplane. While she is attempting to sell him to the highest bidder, the police break in, and Carlos becomes the central figure in a world congress, but Dorothy at length gets her man and holds him. The work of Gloria Stuart, Edna May Oliver, Herbert Mundin and Joan March is valuable. The settings are gorgeous, ana the photography unique. An item of the programme which calls for especial mention is the unique and beautiful vaudeville act, “Poses Poetique,” which is presented on the stage by a talented group of Parisian artists who style themselves •’Les Statuesques,” and who have come to the Dominion from the "Folies Bergeres,” Paris. This turn was (enthusiastically received by the audience, which manifested Its appreciation by frequent bursts of hearty applause . KOSY THEATRE “TREASON” AND ‘‘COCKTAIL HOUR” Buck Jones leads the double-feature programme now at the Kosy theatre in “Treason." Shirley Grey, Ed Le Saint and Robert Ellis are among the supporting cast of well-known players. In “Cocktail Hour” it is interestingly and dramatically proved that modern young women cannot, with all their present-day freedom and self-reliance, over-rule the code laid down centuries ago. Bebe Daniels in this picture portrays Cynthia Warren, wealthy and famous young poster artist, who’s going to “take her fun where she finds it,” and who refuses to marry until she has “tasted life as a man tastes it.” This, she claims, is her right. But her attempted love-freedom is a dismal failure. She is fooled and inflicted With heartaches and has to admit that the ancient conventions are right, after all. Sidney Blackmer, Randolph Scott and Muriel Kirkland are supporting artists. Chapter eleven of “The Lost Special” is included in the programme.