ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 June 1931, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

‘BACHELOR FATHER”: MAJESTIC THEATRE TO-NIGHT

Marion Davies achieves the finest performance of her talkie career in “The Bachelor Fat her, - ' her new Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer starring vehicle, which commences at the Majestic Theatre tonight . As the madcap, vivacious and pugnacious little child-of-poverty heroine, Miss Davies registers a characterisation perfect in every respect. In a revent interview, Miss Davies said she didn't care who made audiences weep as long as she could supply laughs. Her new picture shows she means just that, hut there were some moments in the new film when she displayed tenderness and sincerity. Always a convincing performer, Miss Davies, in this splendid talkie, reaches inside the role she plays and literally brings it to life, deftly shading mg the high comedy with intervals of

sentimentality. The very amusing plot deals with the adventures of a liaremscareiu young lady who is transplanted as it were, upon an aristocratic estate in .England, where a grumpy aristocratic Englishman tries to make her a lady. ,Slio rebels at practically everything that transpires except in the case of an incipient. romance with the baronet’s personable young attorney. It is a thrilling air smash that forms the climax of this funny plot and brings about a. happy ending C. Aubrey Smith, noted English stage star, who created the title role m the original play, repeats his charmingly blustering performance on the screen. Ralph Forbes is splendid in the romantic lead, and others in the capable cast arc Guinn Williams, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence, Ray Milland and James Gordon. “The Bachelor Father” is real ent ertainmciit.

MAJESTIC: HAROLD LLOYD IN ‘‘FEET FIRST” Harold Lloyd in liis newest Paramount release, “Feet First,” lias a brand new bag of tricks that will create roars of laughter. There’s action to every second. This time he is a smiling shoe clerk, pursuing a beautiful girl (Barbara Kent), who appeared with Lloyd in

“Welcome Danger.” “Feet First” is the comedy king's second big all-talk-ing picture, and will open at the Regent Theatre this evening. The supporting east- includes Robert MeWade, Lilliaiinc Leighton, Alec Francis and Noah Young. Although Lloyd bad thought it impossible to equal‘“Safety Last,” lie had not reckoned oil his own imaginative and creative genius. He made the thrill scenes, which come toward the end of “Feet First,” at great personal risk, spending several months at work, which lequired Him to swing by his hands in precarious poses. Without his splendid physique, he could never have accomplished such feats. But the work was so arduous that this time it seems likely he will lot “Feet First” stand as his high mark for gasping thrills.