ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 11 April 1929, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE: "FINDERS KEEPERS" and "LOVE OVER NIGHT" Two stellar attractions were screened. ,it the Regent Theatre last night to an audionoe which packed the house to the doors. From tho outset laughter rang loud and long during the unfold ing of these two screen comedies. "Finders Keepers" with Laura la Plante and Rod la Roque at their best shows how Barbara, Colonel Archibald's daughter and god-mother of an army regiment, has reluctantly accepted engagement rings from each of her many admirers. Carter Brooks, a private, falls in love with her, and when his company is about to leave for Europe the two decide to marry at once, although her father is against even an engagement, not knowing uf her many rings. Carter's timid'pal Percy changes clothes with Barbara so she can enter the cantonment to he near him, and a series of comic incidents follow, in which she eventually gets caught by her father,' but she in turn catches him. "Love Over Night," although on different lines, is a perfect gale of laughter throughout. The programme should attract big audiences t,o the Regent to-night and t->'morrow evening. LON CHANEY IN '"WEST OF ZANZIBAR" Lon Chaney, his head shaven and wearing one of the weirdest disguises' of his many outstanding adventures, while he enacts "Dead Legs'Flint," a sinister, semi-paralysed voodoo ruler of a tribe of savage devil worshippers, is tho magnet in "West of Zanzibar" to be screened at the Regent Theatre on Saturday commencing at the matinee. Chaney has given theatredom ni-uty bizarre characterisations, but probaiily his newest takes the palm fpr sheer mystification and uncanny terror. Jtlis play is a grim story of a terrible revenge, laid in the primitive wads of an African jungle. Lionel Barrymore plays "Crane," the ivory trader whom Chaney relentlessly follows into the wilds, and Mary Nolan plays the "Voodoo's" daughter, while Warner Baxter is superbly dramatic as the renegade physician who finds regeneration in his love for the girl. The plan is on view at the Regent Theatre Cohj fectionery Store or the theatre 'phone 11102. MAJESTIC THEATRE: "THE GAR« DEN OF EDEN" Corinne Griffith makes her United Artists debut in "The Garden of Eden," a comedy romance film based on the stage play of the same name, her picture showing at the Majestic Theatre to-night. Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman and Charles Ray head a distinguished supporting cast; Lewis Milestone, who made "Two Arabian Knights," directed "The Garden of Eden." Apples, serpents, fig leaves, and Paradise are only symbolically present in this "Garden of Eden,"—for it is a modern clothes version of the oldest story in the world. It is at the Hotel Eden, outside Monte Carlo, that many humorous and romantic adventures befall Torn Le Brun, French shop-girl off for a lark with her friend, the Baroness Rosa de Career. The startling climax to these adventures is a wedding which, ■ends in a riot. Plans are at the Theatre Confectionery.