ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 18 September 1933, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

“TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY” MAJESTIC THEATRE, TO=NIGHT Departing widely from their customary type of vehicle, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell prove to be more romantic and more picturesque than ever in “Tess of the Storm Country” which screens to-night at the Majestic Theatre. In the colourful role of a seacaptain’s daughter who comes to live ashore for the first time in her life, and who finds both her bravery and her tempestuous disposition severely tried by the various obstacles she meets, Miss Gaynor gives one of the best performances in her entire career. Farrell, as the millionaire’s son who is disowned by his irascible father because of hi s interest in the heroine, likewise comes through with a flawless portrayal. “DTPLOMANIACS,” REGENT, TO-NIGHT “Diolomaniaes,” a farcical, nonsensical RKO-R-adio dancing, singing anc laughing comedy, starring those rapid fire comics, Bert Wheeler and Roheri Woolsey screens at tho Regent Theatre to-ni !T ht. The authors of this meirv tale, deserve a lot of credit for talc ing what is really one of the world i most sanctified yet ineffective, institu tions, shearing it of its serious aspects decking it with hilarious situations anc changing it from one of the world s pe frowns into a gale of fun. The breyu burlesque treatment of the conference n extremely funny, the authors of tk piece merely having substituted mallets bombs, bricks and machine guns fo the ironic oral slaps used at . the rea conference. “Diplomaniacs,” is one o the best Wheeler and Woolsey vehicles