Palmerston Picture Programmes

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 181, 31 July 1934, Page 9

Palmerston Picture Programmes

PALACE. THEATRE “WHITE ENSIGN" When tho Admiralty granted certain facilities to Sound City for the making of “White Ensign,” now screening at the Palaco theatre, they solved a good many of the problems facing LieutenantCommander J. L. T\ Hunt, H.N., who both wrote and directed the story. Authentic scenes of a British cruiser were taken at sea, and aerial and submarine, as well as sea manoeuvres are shown. The stirring story concerns the work of the Navy in quelling a disturbance in Santa Barbara. Tho author sets out to show that the Navy is still supreme and that a strong and efficiently equipped Navy could police the world in the same way as a strong and efficient police service prevents crime. This is proved to all in tho story “White Ensign." _ There are scenes of life on board a British cruiser and a British submarine and _ episodes showing the true “bulldog” spirit that made our Navy what it is. The cast includes Anthony Kimmins, a comparative newcomer to the screen but already regarded as a real discovery; Molly Lamont, who will be remembered for her work in “My Wife’s Family ; Ivan Sampson and Ballard Berkeley. A Cast of Old Favourites in “Take a Chance.” "Take a Chance,” the new Paramount musical film which is having such a record run in other centres, comes to the Palace theatre on Wednesday. It is a gay story concerning the careers of four carnival side-show entertainers who liecome tired of small-town life and decide to snatch fame and fortune on Broadway. James Dunn and Cliff Edwards, who Just can't keep from pocketing other people’s watches and miscellaneous valuables, mako a splendid team. Dunn, who has played romantic leads exclusively in the past, steps over into farce comedy as though born to it. .Tune Knight and Lillian Both support them well.

KOSY THEATRE “HOLD THE PRESS” The real McCoys —two of them, collaborated in the making of tho Columbia action-thriller, “Hold the Press, ’ which finally show's at the Ivosy theatre to-day. Tim McCoy is the star, and Horace McCoy is the author. The author is a. former newspaperman from Dallas, Texas,] where he established himself as a fear-j less journalist, exposing much of the political corruption that was going on at I the time. The supporting features are! also entertaining. The ever popular comedians Laurel and Hardy help fill the bill; two Radio cartoons, newsreel and episode 11 of “The Perils of Pauline.” To-morrow's Two Stars. Both are wonderful in their entertaining value and you are sure to enjoy them. The first attraction is “Second Hand Wife,” based on a recent novel by Kathleen Norris, with Sally Eilers and Ralph Bellamy co-featured in the leading roles. It tells the story of a rich business man who, martyred by an inconstant wife, falls genuiirely in love with his pretty secretary. Helen Vinson appears as the faithless wife. Picturesque haunts of Manhattan night lifo which are frequented only by those who know their New York are shown in Fox Film’s “Broadway Bad.” Heading the cast of the picture are Jean Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Ginger Rogers, Victor Jory.

STATE THEATRE “THIS MAN IS MINE” llow an intelligent young- wife undertakes to revive the honeymoon ardor of her husband by deliberately throwing him into the arms of another woman forms the colourful and thrilling theme of RKOltadio Pictures’ comedy-drama, "This Man Is Mine,” which stars Irene Dunno as tho wife. Tho film is highly seasoned comedy satiro on life in tho so-called upper circles, is enacted by a cast which includes Ralph Bellamy as the straying husband, Constance Cummings as the flirtatious third corner of the triangle, Sidney Blacltmer, Kay Johnson, Charles Starrett, Louis Mason and Vivian Tobin. John Cromwell directed the picture, which is an adaptation of the Broadway stage success, “Love Flies in the Window.” “The Crime Doctor.” The thread of a great love, at first selfish but eventually sacrificial to the extent of paying the supreme price, weaves its way through the planning and commission of a premeditated murder in “The Crime Doctor,” RKO-Radio picture which comes to the State theatre tomorrow. Lovers of crime stories—and their number is legion—are said to have a new thrill in store for them in this story, which, for the first ime in screen history, depicts tho “perfect crime.” Dan Clifford, one of the world’s most successful man hunters, finds his cases so easy to solve that the game is losing all Its thrill for him, and lie decided to retire. It is on the very day of his decision that lie finds himself involved in a murder plot in a most amazing fashion and one that transcends any of his former cases, both by its bizarre nature and the way in which he defies its solution by the authorities. Otto Kruger, one of Hollywood’s newer leading men, will be seen as the detective, Gifford, and Kareen Morley as his wife, who is the innocent motive for the murder. Nils Asther, as a young novelist, and Judith Wood, as a double-crossing woman of unsavory record, and William Frawley, as a baffled rival sleuth of Gifford’s, have vital roles in “The Crime Doctor.”

REGENT THEATRE ANN SOTHERN MAKES CINEMA BOW IN “LET’S FALL IN LOVE” “Let’s Fall in Love,” Columbia’s longheralded and unique musical-romance in which the beautiful, golden-voiced Ann Sothern makes her cinema bow to motion picture audiences, will open its local engagement at the Regent theatre to-mor-row. The glamorous story of Miss Sothern's ascension to screen stardom in her first production is cast in the familiar mould of the traditional Hollywood fable. When tlie Columbia studios planned production of the book of “Let’s Fall in Love,” prepared by Herbert Fields, author of numerous Broadway musical successes, they could find no actress in Hollywood suited for the difficult role of “Sigrid Lund,” and consequently turned their searching eyes Broadwayward. The requirements for the leading role were strict. The girl had to be beautiful, blonde and captivating; she bad to be able to sing—and, most important—she had to he able to talk English with a convincing Swedish dialect. In tho memory of a Columbia Studios executive lingered the pleasant recollection of a demure, talented young actress whom he had seen in a legitimate show in New York. Telephone wires between Hollywood and New York hummed. When it was ascertained that Miss Sothern was of Swedish ancestry, the slightly bewildered Ann was shipped post haste to California—signed, sealed and delivered. In keeping with the pretentious plans outlined for tho production of “Let’s Fail in Love,” a superb cast, headed by Edmund I,owe, as Kenneth Lane, the resourceful director who “discovers” Miss Southern in the story, was assembled. Miriam Jordan i 3 tho embittered fiancee, who almost upsets Sigrid’s apple cart.