ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 April 1934, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

——— “SHANGHAI MADNESS”, MAJESTIC TONIGHT

This is living, this “Shanghai (Madness,” in the midst of a vibrant coil of slink-eyed Mongols and disgraced whiles’, fired from their .jobs because (heir spines developed streaks of yellow from tip to tip. Sanguinary doings in Shanghai where. Spencer Tracy plunges into a- limb of frenzied Chinese to rescue Fay Wray from a deathly fate. And then down to defeat again with the fingers of a million Orientals pointing in scorn at a man who has no home, neither among yellow nor while men ! As kaleidoscopic and exciting a yarn as Hollywood ever attempted to make is “Shanghai Madness,” which screen tonight at the Majestic Theatre. It is one of the most thrilling ever told about the East. In this picture Spencer Tracy adds another performance to his long list of capable ones. Fay Wray, too’ as well as Ralph Morgan, gives him ample support. REGENT THEATRE: AN INTRIGUING ROMANCE Opening to-day, at the Regent 1 lice tro, is “The Worst Woman in Paris?” with Bonita Hume and Adolphe Menjou m the featured roles. Following Ids first principle of presenting only films with element of novelty, I risky is sponsoring this screen story of a woman of Paris who finds a new type ol life, and an altogether new type of romance in one of the smaller towns of llm American middle west. She leaves her companion of the Parisian night life, and trail sports her,self into a new world ol simple pleasures and honest romance. But the shadow of her all too-earoless past rears its heads and clears her vision She is brought sharply to the realisation that the simple life is not for her, and that her place is with her devoted nightj life companion in the French capital. ! Bonita Hume, one of the most notable i beauties of the stage and screen, has the j leading role of lhr* so-called “worst wo- | man in'Paris.” In the masculine lead I opposite her is Adolphe Men jou. On ! Saturdev Janet Guvnor's latest musical romance “Adorable” will commence a three-day season. Miss Guvnor, always a favourite of Nelson audiences, has seldom been seen to better advantage than in this nho(o|dav.