AMUSEMENTS

Northern Advocate, 31 December 1934, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

PLAZA

DOUBLE PROGRAMME A sympathetic story full of romance, laughter, pathos, with delightful songs, and, of course, Richard Tauber, the “golden-voiced Caruso of to-day,” all go to make the Plaza Theatre definitely worth a visit to see the great tenor’s latest screen triumph, “The Right to Happiness.” Tauber sings some glorious numbers during the course of this delightful and intensely human story. Perhaps the most imposing is Cavaradossi’s great aria from the last act of “Tosca,” the tragic beauty of which this great tenor extracts to the full. “The Song of the Homeland,” a lilting number, breathing the fine spirit of German nationalism, is also superbly rendered. By way of a contrast, he sings a delightful and charming little song to his baby daughter, the “Baby Song,” and undoubtedly this is one of the highlights of the whole film. Music-lovers and others who love pictures of human appeal will vote this one of the supreme film treats of all time. “Here Comes the Groom” tells the hilarious story of a piccolo player who reforms to become a burglar, and then finds himself impersonating a newly-wed radio celebrity, and honeymooning with a girl to whom he is not married. Jack Haley, Mary Boland, Neil Hamilton, Patricia Ellis and Isabel Jewell head the cast. >■

The programme will be shown at 7.45 and at 10.30 will be screened “The Affairs of Voltaire,” starring Mr. George Arliss. This will be followed by a celebration of the New Year in true Scottish style with buffet supper and appropriate Highland music. WISE OLD CROWS For over 90 years crows built their nests in the branches of a towering old oak in Glamorgan, but recently the birds moved to another tree. A few days afterwards the ancient oak fell with a crash like thunder, amid a series of triumphant caws from the crows. It seems that birds, having a higher temperature than man, are more sensitive to many things and often show a remarkable sense of danger with regard to trees. Most people experience the same thrill of satisfaction as these wise old crows when events prove the sagacity of their forecasts. Many a man now smoking Blue Shield (Medium) or Red Shield (Dark) who has persuaded a friend to do likewise knows how pleasing it is when the friend tells him later “You were absolutely right!” “Just as you said it would —Blue Shield (or Red) suits me down to the ground.”

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