ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 7 April 1934, Page 11

ENTERTAINMENTS

“SONG OF SONGS,” MAJESTIC, TO-NIGHT “The Song of Songs” presents Miss Dietrich in a new and far more human and understandable characterisation than she lias had previously. The story presents her as a young orphan peasant girl who goes to Berlin to live with her aunt, played by Alison Skipwortli. Mean, poor, unsympathetic, the aunt makes life in the bookstore one of all work and no play. But across the street a handsome young sculptor has a studio, and he asks the young girl to pose for him. She falls in love with him, but he is a struggling artist. Ail elderly baron, well characterised by Lionel Atwill, becomes infatuated with her statue, and bargains with ■ the girl’s aunt to cast her from the house so that she will have no alternative except to become his wife. The girl’s life with the baron is far from happy and she leaves him and becomes a notorious but beautiful figure in the night life of Berlin. One night, Aherne, who has been searching for her, finds her in a cabaret, carries her off again to his studio. In a dramatic scene, it becomes apparent that the past is blotted out, and only the rosy future looms before them.

“HEADS WE GO,” REGENT, TO-NIGHT , Those who have been in love will know how Betty felt when Toby Tyrell set off to Deauville, the very same day that she had met and fallen in love with him in a lift. Of course the lift had stopped, just as he was teaching her to whistle, and that night, the eve of her own holidays, she saw him off to Deauville. Betty consulted her friend, Binnie Barnes. They tossed for it, and it came down “Heads!” “Heads We Go,” British International’s brilliant comedy, with a romantic charm all its own, comes to the Regent Theatre on Saturday. It is Constance Cummings’ first British picture, and one of her most delightful to date. She plays opposite Frank Lawton, and in order to be near him “blues” a small inheritance, only to discover, while crossing the Channel, that he is a—steward. Then, mistaken for Dorothy Kay—a famous film star—and anxious to put all thoughts of Toby from her mind, Bettv allows herso lf to be drawn

into the fashionable social whirl, unaware that Nemesis in the form of the real Dorothy Kay’s publicity agent is on his way to Deauville, thirsting for justice.