ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 12 March 1930, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE: “JAZZ

HEAVEN”

lo the tuneful melody of “Someone,” Radio Pictures’ dramatic musical, “Jazz Heaven,’ makes its bid for local acclaim at the Regent Theatre to-morrow night. John Mack Brown and Sully O’Neil are in the featured roles. “Someone” is more than the conventional theme song. Ihe lilting love lyric, composed hv Oscar Levant and Sidney Glare, plays an integral part in the story. It is the song which ultimately brings success to a young composer and makes possible his future married happiness. “Someone” thus is introduced in a novel manner, and forms a fitting background for the entire story. Sally O’Neil sings for the first time on the screen in “Jazz Heaven,” while John Mack Brown, cast as the young composer, both plays and sings. The supporting case includes nottuble stars of stage and screen, including Joseph Cawthoi'ii, Clyde Cook, Albert Conti, Blanche Friderici and J. Barney Sherry. Cavvthorn, one of the oldest stars of the musical comedy stage, is seen in another delightful comedy role similar (o his part in “Street Girl,” the picture which brought Cawthorn to the fore as an outstanding film comedian. Melville Brown directed “Jazz lleavan.” The picture brings to the talking screen for the first time a reproduction of a large broadcasting station. The locale has been screened with authenticity, giving a real picturisalion of the manner in which radio programmes arc put on the air.

MAJESTIC THEATRE: LAST NIGHT OF “DARKENED ROOMS”

“Darkened Rooms,” the new 100 per cent, all-talking attraction starring Evelyn Brent, will have its final screening at the Majestic Theatre this evening.

“Darkened Rooms” is based on a very popular novel by Sir Philip Gibbs, and .Miss Brent plays the chorus girl who inveigled into a job as a “medium” by Neil Hamilton, practitioner of the art of applied fake mystery. Her love for the handsome Neil invites Miss Brent to drastic measures for reforming him. *By a cleverly staged mystery exhibition of her own, she manages to bring Hamilton to his senses. Tho picture affords many tense moments and many breath-taking thrills. A beautiful thread of romance is woven into the plot, and there is a plentiful sprinkling of clever comedy. In the supporting cast headed by Hamilton are Doris Hill. David Newell, E. H. Calvert and Gale Henry.

TO-MORROW: CORINNE GRIFFITH IN “THE DIVINE LADY”

A reproduction of the Battle of Trafalgar will be seen when “The Divine Lady,” Corinne Griffith’s latest picture, comes to the Majestic Theatre to-mor-row. Despifo the magnitude of the maritime scenes of “The Divine Lady,” this sequence by no means dominates the picture. which deals with naval battles only as incidents in the great love story of Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson. Miss Griffith, as tho lady of many affairs and one splendid, ideal romance, worked in tho picture steadily for over more than six months while another six months was devoted to preparations for filming tho story. The cinematic naval battles and other scenes with old-fashioned sailing ships and men-o’-war took place along the entire Californian coast, from Monterey to San Deirgo. Landing scenes were filmed near Monterey, and three hundred miles south, the principal battle scenes were taken at distances ranging from fifty to one hundred miles from shore. Four ships were used as “principals” in the sea episodes, and from eight to fourteen others for distant atmosphere, no action being shown on the decks of the latter. In this way the whole English and French fleets were reproduced. The cast supporting Miss Griffith in “The Divino Lady” is a notable one, and includes Victor Varconi as Lord Nelson. SCOTTISH CONCERT The first Scottish concert to he liclcl under the* auspices of (lie Nelson Provincial Scottish Society in the School of Music this evening, is expected to attract a capacity house. The tickets which have been on. sale for several days have sold well, and no dclai! calculated to ensure (lie complete success of the function lias been overlooked. Tho concert will start at 8 o’clock and taxis may ho ordered for 10.30. The Highland Pipe Band will lie in attendance and render selections prior to and during the entertainment.