AMUSEMENTS

North Canterbury Gazette, Volume 6, Issue 64, 2 April 1937, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Regent Theatre, Rangiora TO-MORROW (SATURDAY) JESSIE MATTHEWS: “IT’S LOVE AGAIN” Big Stars make big entertainment in a big way in “It’s Love Again,” to be shown to-morrow- afternoon and evening at the Regent Theatre, Rangiora Jessie Matthews, Robert Young, and Sonnie Hale, supported by a distinguished cast, and songs, romance, comedy, and dancing. The story is set in extravagant locales, intermitting between Fleet Street and the cabarets of Mayfair. Jessie was never seen to better advantage; she is easy to look upon, and easy to listen to, while Robert Young is her ideal romantic opposite, with Sonnie Hale playing the fool in his inimitable way. TUESDAY “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S' DREAM” When Warner Bros., who gave talking pictures to the world, announced that they had persuaded Prof. Max Reinhardt to produce Sheakespeare’s greatest comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” to be presented on Tuesday afternoon and evening, they declared that the resultant picture would be the finest ever filmed. That this promise has b63n fulfilled, everyone who has seen the gorgeously fantastic production will agree. The film is a revelation of the possibilities of motion pictures. Here is art in its finest sense. Here is the sheer beauty of fantasj 7 , where imagination has its fullest play. Yet here too, is entertainment—for all the humour has been retained, and spectators pause for a moment in their laughter to thrill at the drama or marvel at the beauty of spectacles. Through it all is heard the - glorious music of Mendelssohn, especially arranged by the famous Viennese composer, Erich Wolfgang Ivorngold, and played by* a fine symphony orchestra. THURSDAY “O’MALLEY OF THE MOUNTED” An action story of the great outdoors from the pen of the man who towered as the silent screen’s greatest adventure star: a two-fisted, hard-rid- v ing characterisation by the ever-popu-lar George O’Brien, Hollywood’s leading outdoor star! There in brief is the story of the tingling excitement, roaring drama and tender romance contained in “O’Malley of the Mounted,” the new Fox adventure drama to be shown on Thursday evening. Rialto Theatre } Kaiapoi AN AUSTRALIAN FILM Something new in screen entertainment is offered at the Rialto Theatre this week-end, when “The Flying Doctor,” with Charles Farrell, Mary Maguire, James Raglan, Margaret Vyner, Joe Yalli, and Eric Colman, is to be shown. Directed by Miles Mander, from an adaption by J. O. C. Orton of the novel by Robert Waldron, the film has been produced at Pagewood, Sydney, by National Productions Ltd., in association with Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, of London. Here is a wide and colourful panorama of Australia—active sport, cricket dramatised, wrestling made thrilling, the adventure of gold finding, and the sparkle of sudden fame. Here are the cities and the wide ranges—neon lights, mountain waterfalls, and country valleys. Here are men doing a daily job of work in the most unique flying medical service in the world, the Flying Doctors. And through it all is woven the‘lives of ordinary men and women; Charles Farrell playing the wanderer, who loved distant, blue horizons more than the protection of a woman’s love; Mary Maguire shoAving the simplicity of a

Avoman’s faith in the man she Avill alAvays love; James Raglan heading his ’plane of succour toAvards the distant deserts that challenge his courage; and Margaret Vyner shoAving the tanglo men can make Avith their lives.