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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 211, 7 September 1936, Page 12

STATE THEATRE. THREE MUSKETEERS OF MIRTH, WALLS, LYNN AND HARE. Tom Walls, whose latest picture, “Pot Luck,” is showing at the State Theatre to-day, has been seen in many guises during his long career on the screen. This time, however, he surpasses himseli when he visits an Art Gallery in his efforts to track a gang ol art-treasure thieves, who are after a valuable Chinese vase. He appears as a “grand old man" heavily clad in long grey beard, sweeping grey hair and a lot of ciothes. His voice, too, is altered and he speaks in a thin treble which completely deceives the thiei who is in the galleries hovering around the precious vase. This film is bubbling over with humour, yet it has its purely thrilling moments. There is the car chase through tho night when Jane and Reggie (Diana Churchill and Ralph Lynn, of course) follow the thieves’ car and arc led to a weird-looking abbey in the heart of the country. From that point excitement increases, until it reaches a grand climax when the inimitable Tom Walls, as Detective Fitzpatrick, lays the crooks low. This picturo is one of the rare occasions when Robertson Hare appears without a wife. As a rule this popular little man takes a rolo in which he very much married to a mati-pecking woman. But here, in this Walls-Lynn farce, he is a bachelor, the owner of an ancient abbey left to him by a. brother who died intestate—which, as Ralph Lynn remarks, "must have been, nasty for him.” MAYFAIR THEATRE. "THE MUSIC GOES ROUND.”

Sparkling comedy, captivating singing, inspiring dancing, lino acting, lovely songs—put lliem all together and add a story that is as fresh as to-morrow’s news, and you have Columbia's new musical film, “The Music Goes Round,’ which shows to-day at the Mayfair Tneatre, with Harry Rlenman, Kociielle Hudson, Michael Bartlett, Walter Connolly and Edward Farley, and Michaei Riley—and their 'round and ’round music —prominently featured, ft sounds like a large order, but when you consider all the very special ingredients that went into the making of "The Music Goes ’Round,’ it is easy to believe that it is one of the season’s outstanding musical extravaganzas. liichman has long been considered one of America’s premier entertainers. Whether it is in George White’s ’•Scandals," Zicgfeld’s “Follies,” on the radio, in night clubs, or in 'musical comedies, liichman has proved himseli

“tho tops.” Now he’s in the movies, and tho whole, world is waiting to see what he does. Miss Hudson is a young lady whoso popularity has- grown enormously in the last year or two. "Show Them No Mercy,” "Curly Top” and “Les Miserables” are a few of her recent successes. Connolly, outstanding on both stage ana screen, turns in another of his excellent character performances in this film. Somehow, this is ono actor who never lets his audience down. Lately, -he has been seen in "She Couldn’t Take It,” "So Red The Rose,” and "Soak the Rich. ’ For several months before the making of these films ho was starring on Broadway. When Michael Bartlett sang with Grace Moore in "Love Mo Forever,” the whole world was thrilled. Ho is said to have a lyric tenor voice of tho highest calibre. With Claudette Colbert in "She Married Her Boss,” he again gave audiences something to excite them when he sang "Parlez Moi D’Aniour.” Now, in "The Music Goes Round,” Bartlett once more brings to tho screen his melodious voice. "The Music Goes Round” tells the story o£ a Broadway musical comedy star who gets stranded in a tiny southern town and falls in love with the daughter of a showboat owner. Concealing ills Identity, he accepts a job as a member of tho oldfashioned troupe. Believing it is just what his Broadway revue needs to bolster it up, he secretly gets his Now York producer to hire tho troupe. Broadway laughs heartily at the troupe’s best efforts and they return broken T hearted to tho river showboat. But future' developments smooth everything out. •