Palmerston Picture Programmes

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 273, 18 November 1936, Page 8

Palmerston Picture Programmes

REGENT THEATRE—TO-DAY “THE PRINCESS COMES ACROSS’’ A Very entertaining story about strange happenings during an Atlantic crossing from France to America, "Tae Princess which will start to-day at the Regent Theatre, is a skiltul mixture of comedy, romance, satire and mystery. .The story is told with spirit and the acting of all the cast, headed by Car** ole Lombard and i'Ted AtacMurray, is excellent. "Almost everything happens in this .picture;” says the critic o£ tne British Film Weekly. "There is so much going on all the time that you cannot but be absorbingly entertained. On a tiansAllantie 1 liner bound lor New York are a band leader lured Mac Murray), an American girl posing as a Swedisli princess 'in order to get a "break in Hollywood,,.a group ol international detectives going to a crime coruerence, a blackmailer 'and an escaped Tlie band leader tails in love with the Princess’’ (Carole Lombard); the'blackmailer gets to work on both o£ tnem;, and the murderer commits two killings. While the detectives and the implicated band leader are doing their best to find the killer, the "princess” is angling lor her Hollywood contract and trying not to let her connection with tne crimes reveal ner'true identity. The director has taken the mystery element in. the story sufficiently seriously to make it very interesting; but tor the most part the treatment is in a vein of flippant, pungent comedy. The cast from the stars down to the very small-part players is thoroughly sound. The- characters are therefore cleanly cut and individual, a tact widen gives the'story an additional appeal.

MAYFAIR THEATRE. SUBTLE ; COMEDY ... WITTY DIALOGUE ... , SPARKLING WITH LAUGHTER. Touched into life by the genius of Ernst Lubitsch, and by the flawless, performance of a brilliant cast of players, "Trouble in Paradise” shows at the Mayfair Theatre to-day. "Trouble ,in Paradise” is as new and as revolutionary in a film sense as were the first sophisticated comedies'that Lubitsch produced in the early days, and like those earlier films it will undoubtedly stand as a mode( tor other directors, although all are blended into a perfect whole' by the hand .of Lubitsch. Herbert Marshall - appears .In the role of a super crook who preys upon European society. He ultimately meets Miriam Hopkins, his feminine counterpart, they team up professionally and matrimonially. The two double their individual success and move with easy good humour from one capital to another until they arrive in Paris. There they choose Kay Francis, lovely French widow with a bank balance, as a victim, but Francis, fascinated by the proposed victim, leaves nearer the point of respectability and an amusing climax develops when the two women who love him get together to settle matters. ’ Charles Kuggles and Edward Everett Horton are also in the cast

STATE THEATRE TO-DAY. “THE BORDER PATROLMAN” ■With a blazing six-gun in his hand and a beautiful girl in his. arms, George O’Brien riues through a last and exciting •series 'of adventures in “.The Border Patrolman,new u ox release which opens to-day at the State Theatre. Fighting and loving more recklessly Utah ever, O'Brien this time meets his match .in a gill who’s tlie equivalent of a pack'd wildcats. Before the film readies its whirlwind climax-, foily Ann young teaches O’Brien tilings lie never guesseu about the-West. Miss Young gets O Brieu into trouble ill the earJy moments, ot tlie him when in a forest she defies his warning about forest tires. Angered by her evident headstrong nature, u’Brien picks her up and carts ner oil uuuiiy to patrol headquarters. When ins captain reprimands him lor his aeiion, O Drien resigns and gets a job from Miss Young's grandfather laming tlie heiress! Foily Ann is moie than attracted by the dashing O’Brien, out when she finds out that he is attempting to piay guaruian to her, she blows up and sets oil a powuer key ot excitement by eloping with the head of a gang of jewel smugglers. O’Brien hears of tlie plot and rushes to the scene, where ho smashes the outlaw and rescues the girl. Unknown to Polly Ann, her handbag contains the valuable necklace the smugglers want to sneak across the border. Out-distancing their pursuers, O’Brien and Polly Ann are just congratulating themselves on their narrow escape when their car breaks down and the outlaws rush up, precipitating a wild fight that brings the film to a close in a blaze of excitement and thrills. X J roduced by fcjpl Lesser, “The Border Patrolman” also features Roy Mason. Mary Doran and Smiley Burnette. David Howard directed the production.

KOSY THEATRE TO-DAY “THE STRANGE CONSPIRACY” “The Strange Conspiracy” is a sensational story, visualising the kidnapping of the Ruler ot America, and what would happen it such an event occurred. The tale would lose. its tremendous wallop, according to the producer, it tne personality ot the interpreter of the title role intruded into the part. The illusion must be complete. Excitement, mystery, thrills, romance are unleashed in a smashing dramatic story so startling the author dared not sign his name. Byron's name heads a -cast of 22 film favourites ‘ including Janet Beecher, Paul Kelly,. Peggy Conklin, Charley Grapewin, Robert Mc'Wade, Edward Arnold, Osgood Perkins, Edward Ellis, Andy Devine and Irene Franklin. G-Man Turns Killer. , Lloyd Nolan claims it is not his fault —-he started out as a “right guy” but he just got into bad company! Not long ago, Nolan made his biggest screen success to date in the role of a heroic G-Man and .nemesis of gangsters. Now, cast in the character of a ruthless killer in Paramount’s "Big Brown Eyes,” which stars Joan Bennett and Carry Grant, ho hopes he will soon be able to work himself up to the right side of the law in his next film,