AMUSEMENTS

Northern Advocate, 6 February 1936, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

THE REGENT.

A motion picture treat came to the Regent Theatre last night when the beloved May Robson opened an engagement in “Three Kids and a Queen,” the heart-warming comedy drama, in which she is starred as “the richest woman in the world.” Never before has Miss Robson been seen in a characterisation so appealing and so human as this. As Mary Jane Baxter she is presented as a bitter and imperious old maid, crabbed and yet filled with an acid quality of delightful humour, and even in her most indignant moments one feels that she is slyly poking fun at a world in which she is very much disappointed. But it is a runaway accident which renders her unconscious that opens the way for the happiest period of her life, and she “comes to” in the East Side barber shop of a basement flat. Here her great adventure in happiness leads to more exciting adventures in which she is kidnapped by gangsters, and the story is filled with absorbing interest to its unusual climax.

THE PLAZA

“CALM YOURSELF.”

For sheer entertainment on the three-way road to hilarity, adventure and romance, “Calm Yourself,” the new picture at the Plaza, captures the laurels. Made in the best farcical manner, it possesses rare speed, and so its drama packs all the more punch while its merriment is as swift as a fun-loving heart could desire. The theme deals with the worries, wiles and wooing of Young as the head of a “confidential service" bureau. Inasmuch as he makes no limit on the kind of work he will do, he is soon involved in complications that bring a rush of A amusing, and sometimes exciting. episodes. When he agrees to take care o 1 a banker's young daughter until the proper time for the financier to break the news of his marriage to a girl as young as his offispring, the bureau operator finds himself enmeshed in more woes, but with abundant humour—and romance at the end of the trail for him. It's all happily and interestingly achieved, and so cleverly! that the picture is intensely human] and believable, i

The supporting programme included j a Charlie Chase comedy, another mirth I raiser featuring Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly, and a Metrotone News,