Palmerston Picture Programmes

Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7493, 18 June 1934, Page 10

Palmerston Picture Programmes

KOSY THEATRE TWO ENTERTAINING COMEDY FEATURES Skillful, tuneful and delightful; that’s “Jimmy and Sally,” the new Fox Film release which heads the double-feature programme now at the Kos.y theatre, and which proved to be a highly diverting and entertaining comedy romance with music. The story is ideally suited for James Dunn and Claire Trevor who are co-featured in this up to the minute picture. In fact both principals are excellently cast, and do justice to their particular roles. Ben Lyon, Zasu Pitts and James Gleason enact the principal characters in "The Crooked Circle,” which forms the supporting attraction. The story deals with the conflict of a club of amateur criminologists, when they cross the path of an organisation of crooks, known only as the "Crooked Circle." The crooks take possession of a haunted house and many weird events take place, providing the audience with inumerable laughs. Episode five of “The Perils of Pauline” is also shown. PALACE THEATRE “THIS IS THE LIFE" That popular comedian Gordon Harker is being presented in what he personally describes as “the biggest success he has achieved on the screen since films began to talk.” This attraction, “This is the Life,” has met with conspicuous success in England and Australia. In It Gordon Harker has for his laughter-creating partner the famous English singing and dancing comedienne Binnie Hale, one of the reigning stars of the London legitimate stage. “This is the Life” marks her first appearance on the screen, and she is credited with achieving "an instantaneous and electrical success." Her singing, dancing and acting have won the admiration of both Press and public. One of the high-lights of the picture is the screamingly funny burlesque by Miss Hale and Harker of the famous “Miserere” duet from “II Trovatore." On the same programme is "Kamet Conquered,” the pictorial record of the British Hymalayan Expedition to the roof of the world—Mount Kamet—and a Mickey Mouse cartoon, entitled "Mickey’s Mechanical Man.” REGENT THEATRE “QUEEN CHRISTINA” That incomparable Swedish actress, Greta Garbo, reappears at the Regent theatre after a considerable absence from the screen in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture “Queen Christina.” Here is a picture which ranks in magnificence of spectael© and breadth of vision with The Private Life of Henry VIII," having the additional advantages of being in the main historically true and having a Swede to enact the role of a Swedish queen. When the great Gustavus Adolphus, who magnified the kingdom of Sweden, was slain at tho Battle of Lutzen he was -succeeded by his juvenile daughter Christina. As this young woman matured she developed a love of freedom just as strongly as it existed In her fam-i

- ' ous father, but, being a woman, it took a bent not uncommon with the frail sex. I She had many lovers, but her great passion was that for tho Duko Antonio, tho Spanish Ambassador, sent to beg for her hand in marriage by Philip IV of Spain. Greta Garbo gives a reposeful and yet intriguing performance as Christina, and John Gilbert figures notably as the handsome Spanish nobleman. Fine work is also done by Lewis Stone —the screen's best speaker—C. Aubrey Smith and Lan Keith. Other pictures on the programme are the “Goofy Movies,” a farcical satire of the extravagances of Hollywood products, a Movietone Newsreel, and some i beautiful glimpses of Venice, and the 1 second of a wonderful series of Lly cui- | bertson Bridge Playing.