AMUSEMENTS

North Canterbury Gazette, Volume 7, Issue 59, 26 November 1937, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

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Regent Theatre, Rangiora

TOMORROW (SATURDAY) WILLIAM POWELL FOR SECOND ANNIVERSARY

The second anniversary of the Regent Theatre will be celebrated tomorrow afternoon and evening with the presentation of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s brilliant screen success, “Rendezvous,” with William Powell, Rosalind Russell, and Binnie Barnes as the stars. There is not a dull moment in this magnificent production. Here you will find William Powell confronted with his most devastating contretemps —trying to catch one girl while trying to get rid of another. There are some thrilling scenes and delightful humour. Altogether “Rendezvous” is outstanding entertainment. A new “March of Time” and the final episode of the serial will also be shown.

TUESDAY “END OF THE TRAIL”

Zane Grey’s famous novel, “Outlaws of Palouse,” a star-spangled yarn of the American rough-riders, will be shown next Tuesday evening, under the title of “End of the Trail,” with Jack Holt in the starring role. The picture brings Holt back to the vigorous type of adventure stories in which he scored his greatest successes. He is capably, supported in this film by an excellent cast, including Louise Henry, Guinn (“Big Boy”) Williams, Douglass Dumbrille, Gene Morgan, George McKay, and John McGuire. Erie Kenton, who directed “End of the Trail,” also appears in the cast as Lieutenant-Colonel Roosevelt in the thrilling attack on Sail Juan Hill.

THURSDAY

James Gleason, who has portrayed the blustering Inspector Oscar Piper in all the previous screen adventures of Oscar and his feminine aide, Hildegardc Withers, again enacts the role in RKO Radio’s newest detective thriller, “Tho Plot Thickens,” to be shown on Thursday evening. A new Hildegarde, however, makes her bow in the new offering, with ZaSu Pitts playing the part of the sharptongued school teacher. Edna May Oliver impersonated Hildegarde in the first three pictures, “Penguin Pool Murder,” “Murder on a Blackboard,” and c '‘Murder on a Honeymoon.” With the fluttering Miss Pitts teamed with the cigar-chewing Gleason, the comedy situations of tho new offering are said to bo the most hilarious to date. The plot deals with the daring effort of a gang of jewel thieves to steal the famous Cillini Cup, and it attains new “highs” in suspense and excitement before tho surprising climax is reached.

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NEXT “THE GREAT ZIEGFELD”

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s colossal masterpiece of stage and screen, “The Great Ziegfeld,” will be presented at the Regent Theatre next Friday and Saturday with William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank Morgan, and Luise Rainer heading a stupendous cast. Nothing approaching this gorgeous production has ever been seen on the screen before. As the pictures takes over three hours to present, patrons are requested to bo seated by 8 o’clock sharp. Box plans are now open at Watson’s, telephone 202.

Rialto Theatre, Kaiapoi

"THE GREAT ZIEGFELD"

In “The Great Ziegfeld,” the last screening of which is tonight at the Rialto, Ivaiapoi, motion pictures have picked up tho torch where the late Florenz Ziegfeld laid it down and have succeeded in out-Ziegfelding tho great Ziegfeld himself. “The Great Zicgffdd” has everything that a great musical picture should have. It has, in the life of Ziegfeld, a most gripping and perfect dramatic story. In its musical numbers, never before produced on such a scale of grandeur, it has many of the most dazzling scenes ever seen in pictures. In entertainment alone it rates just about 100 per cent. First, there are William Powell as Ziegfeld, Myrna Loy as Billie Burke, and Luise Rainer as Anna Held. Then there are Virginia Bruce as Ziegfeld’s greatest glorified Modern Girl, Frank Morgan as his rival producer, Nat Pendleton as Sandow, Reginald Owen as Ziggy’s manager, Fannie Brice as herself, Ray Bolger and

his amazing dancing feet, Harriet Hoctor, and hordes of the most beautiful girls ever to smile at you from the screen. “PICCADILLY JIM”—SATURDAY AND MONDAY Metro-Goklwyn-Mayer has brought “Piccadilly Jim” into being in the person of Robert Montgomery, who gives one of the most delightful performances of bis career in this P. G. Wodehouse classic which screens at the Rialto Saturday and Monday. The supporting cast includes Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Eric Blore, and Billie Burke. The picture’s scenes present London, New York, and a transatlantic luxury liner with a realism that is possible only to the technique of the screen. The Wodehouse story was produced intact, with all of its droll situations and its smart comedy.