Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 66, 20 March 1935, Page 5

Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before

MAE WEST INVITES ALL TO COME UP AND SEE HER

(Kosy: Screening Saturday.)

Mao West, who admits that she is at her best when she is acting a woman at her worst, is at her very best in her newest and gayest contribution to the screen, Paramount’s ‘‘Belle of the Nineties.”

Miss "West returns to the period of the gay and naughty 'nineties in a lavishly dressed, handsomely mounted and thoroughly engrossing entertainment. Surrounded by three new “tall, dark, and handsomes, ” Roger Pryor, John Mack Brown and John Miljan, with Duke Ellington and his orchestra, Mae West acts the part of a St. Louis burlesque queen who goes down to New Orleans to win the I'.earts of the Southern cavaliers.

Mao West strides through an adventurous love-action story which has as its background two of the most colourful cities of that period—New Orleans, La., and St. Louis, Mo. She is cast as Ruby Carter, the centre of a whirlpool of action that brings her down the river from a St. Louis burlesque show to one of the most famous gaming houses in the South. Around Mae West resounds all the gaiety of song and music of the period.’ She’s the Golden West, all right! Everyone knows how she won out at the box-offico to the tune of jingling coin in “I’m No Angel,” and if any indication can be given by the pressing throng in other centres to see her again, “Bell of the Nineties” will appeal too.

The prime topic of to-day in New Zealand is Mae West, and while they talk about her they have no one but Mao West in mind. That is the word-of-mouth that fills theatres. In "Belle of the Nineties" Mac West is as the world loves her best —in gorgeous new gowns—queen of the 90’s. There is no doubt that this is the star and picture that the whole country is talking about.

Both Myrna Loy and Cary Grant have progressed fast and far in the past year or so, and both have won stardom. They will bo seen together for the first time as flying co-stars in "Wings ifi the Dark." This will not, however, be their first experience of aviation pictures. Myrna Loy had a loading role in "Night Flight,” and Cary Grant was prominent in "The Eagle and the Hawk."