Palmerston Picture Programmes

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 214, 7 September 1934, Page 12

Palmerston Picture Programmes

FAL.ACE THEATRE "TARZAN AND HIS MATE" At last —“the ideal family picture!" "Tarzan and His Mate" is tho ofieiing which opens at the Palace theatre tomorrow, with an appeal for fathers, mothers, children and "oldsters’ from eight to SO —and breath-taking thrills to stir any audience. Johnny Weissmuller as "Tarzan,” and Maureen O’Sullivan are agian united in a jungle love story based on Hie famous fiction characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs that have been read by fifteen million people in English alone and translated into 13 foreign languages. Into the primitive romance is packed a series of animal scenes that have never been equalled in the filming of adventure pictures for the screen. (A special interest are scenes taken under water by a special process that has recorded the strangest sight ever seen by a human eye—a battle between a man and a giant crocodile. Human drama is provided in the picture by a strong supporting cast with Weissmuller and Miss O'Sullivan; Neil Hamilton in the rolo of Harry Holt, that he played in the highly successful “Tarzan, The Ape Man." Paul Cavanaugh is a powerful and convincing "heavy” as the jungle explorer with a craze for ivory. Forrester Harvey provides comedy as a Cockney storekeeper; Doris Lloyd, William Stack and Desmond Roberts are outstanding in small roles. Cedric Gibbons, noted art director for tiie Motro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, lias adapted his ability to direction of the adventure picture witli a maximum of power and vigour in each scene. The crowning achievement of Disraeli, in making Queen Victoria “Empress of India,” forms the conclusion of the gripping drama, "Disraeli,” screening finally to-night at the Palace theatre, the Warner production in which George Arliss stars, and which because of public demand is being re-issued by the producers.

KOSY THEATRE A MUSICAL CLASSIC—"SITTING PRETTY” Real Comedy—real music. That Is the exceptional lure offered _by the Kosy theatre screening finally to-day, a here Paramount’s spectacular musical film, “Sitting Pretty,” is playing. From tho opening- smash to tho final orash, the picture is jammed with comedy, music and beautiful girls. You seo the inside of the song writing business and find out how Hollywood makes its musical films in many intimate scenes behind the screen. So don’t miss this. It stops all other musical films in grandeur, beauty and colour—not to mention the comedy. _ The opening programme is most entertaining and includes Harry Langdon comedy, Paramount pictorial, Popeye cartoon and British news. ■ "3ky Devils.” William Boyd, one of those dizzy "Sky Devils,” to-morrow’s attraction at the Kosy theatre, created the role of "Sergeant Quil-k” in the Broadway production “What Price Glory,” a performance which attracted nation-wide attention. He is known for his hard-boiled characterisations, and in "Sky Devils” he turns in another two-fisted impersonation as the tough top-sergeant of a Yankee air unit. This is said to be Boyd's outstanding screen performance. Tho supporting featurettes for the matinee sessions are outstanding, the comedy being a Micky McGuire Gang in football stunts, “The Touchdown”; also Schapp’s cartoon, musical items, travelogue. Episode 5 of "Pirate Treasure.” For the later session the big attraction will lie "Social Register,” with Colleen Moore. REGENT THEATRE

"FROM HEADQUARTERS” Modern police methods allied with all tho resources of science, play a big part in the thrilling story of war on blackmailers, which forms tho plot of "From Headquarters,” the Warner Bros. First National picture, which is now screening at tho Regent theatre. The film begins as a baffling murder mystery, which soon resolves itself into a case of double murder, for a man is killed in police headquarters itself. Two methods of investigation are depleted, one modern and scientific, in which full use is made of laboratory and photographic studio work, and the other the blundering system followed by the older school, In which third degreo methods play a big part. For an intimate glimpse of the inner workings of a police department with all its detection apparatus, one couid have no better opportunity than is pro-.

vided by this picture. In addition the' quality of romance plays a part not usually associated so prominently with tliis typo of film. For while the sordid and secret love affairs of a millionaire

“playboy" are tho motivating causes of his being murdered, romance comes in through the lovo of a police lieutenant for a beautiful and popular show girl whose name had been linked with that of tho dead man. George Brent as the intelligent police officer plays one of the best parts of his career. -Associated with him are Margaret Lindsay in tho role of tho show girl. Eugene Palette, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Burgess and Kenneth Thompson. The supporting features are well up to standard. They include a bright musical revue, “That Goes Double,” excellent news reels, and a novelty item. “Men in White.”

“Men in White,” commencing at the Regent theatre to-morrow, is a dramatisation of life in a modern hospital and one of the season’s outstanding Now York stage successes, has received official sanction, probably for the first time in the history of medicine, in a recent article in tho August Journal of the American Medical Association. The screen adaptation of the now famous play has been produced at tiio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. The picture was directed by Richard Boieslavsky with Clark Gable and Myrna Loy co-starred. Endorsing "Men in White’ ’as a drama for tho presentation of medicine in a proper light to the people, the journal says, in part: “Unlike many other plays devoted to medical topics, the drama of this ono is so outstanding that it affords not only an insight into tho medical point of view, but also an intense and interesting evening.” Tin; article continues: “At tho very opening of the play the chief of staff of tho hospital postpones an operation because he feels the patient has a good' chance for recovery if treated medically.” Together with Gable and Miss Loy, the cast of “Mon in White" includes Jean Hersholt, Elizabeth Allan, Otto Kruger, C. Henry Gordon, Russell Hardie, Wallace Ford, Henry B. Walthall and Russell Hopton, .