ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 1 May 1934, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

LESLIE FULLER IN “HAWLEYS OF HIGH STREET” For laughs, the picture-goer is advised to meet the “Hawleys of High Street,” the funniest family that eVer visited New ficnliiwl at the Regent Theatre to-night. They’re convulsing company. The fun favourite, Leslie Fuller, is Ilawlev himself, so laughs are guaranteed. Mrs Hawley has great social •‘hanibitions,” and when she insists that her husband stand for Mayoral honours, lie objects, but lie stands just the same. His principal rival is Bert Busworth, the local pork butcher, and their election campaigns are screaming affairs. Imagine Fuller addressing a large audience from a platform, an audience which includes several hired inter jeetofs. However, everything comes out all right in the end, but after some have had the laugh of a lifetime. The cast also includes such clever entertainers as Jimmy (hidden, Judy Kelly, and Hal Gordon. THEATRE ROYAL: “MY WEAKNESS”, TO-MORROW “My Weakness,” the new Fox picture which screens at the Theatre Royal on’ Wednesday, proves a fitting vehicle for the dehut of Lilian llarvey in an American production. Site reaches heights seldom achieved and goes through her

sequences with a rare lightness of touch and an almost unbelievable charm o! manner. She moves from conquest to conquest until she finally lands the man who made the wager that she could iK-Acr be made attractive. In casting Lew Ayres as the masculine lead opposite Miss llarvey, Buddy DeSvlva iias shown definite shrewdness. For "this popular actor is nothing less than the perfect foil for the abilities of the new star Chari.es Bn.ttcrworth, Harry Latigdon and Sid Silvers handle tbe comedy in an unsurpassable fashion, and Henry Travers, Irene Bentley and Adrian Bosley are superb in prominent supporting roles. Buddy De Svlva has undoubtedly set himself the task of giving movie audiences a film that will not only entortain but will go far in the direction ol .larding. In this lie. has succeeded ad. mirably. The music by himself, Leo Robin and Richard Whiting ig distinctive. A corps of consistently "beautiful girls do m.ore than lend attraction to tbe picture. They are integral parts of the Howard (the daughter of Wdl. Rogers). Irene Ware, Barbara Weeks, Susan Fleming, Marcelle Edwards, Marjorie King, Jean Allen, Gladys Blake and Dixie Frances, are all woiilt seeing.

MARIE BRESSLER IN “HER SWEETHEART”, MAJESTIC, WEDNESDAY Alarm Dressier and Lionel Barrymore, a co-starring team new to the screen, give picture patrons something decidedly new both in personalities and in a story, in Her Sweetheart,” showing on Wednesday at the Majestic Theatre. The story is intense drama, though amid its neart throb s and human touches ore many delightful comedy interludes. The contiasting work ot Miss Dressier and Barrymore is grippingly interesting m tlie tale ot the country doctor who, under the lash of. avarice, turns from an honest kindly soul to a grasping schemer, on y to be guided back to his lifelong path of honour bv the faith of an old sei van!. Motro-Goldwyn-Alayer adauted it from the famous stage play, “The Late Christopher Bean.” The story concerns the posthumous fame of a long dead artist, his paintings suddenly discovered to he worth fabulous fortunes ami the turmoil this casts into the home thc country doctor who had most of hem. Barrymore as Dr. Daggett runs Hie gamut ot emotions from kindly comedy to grasping greed. Mis* Dress’ler as the. servant Abby has :i role in which she rises to dramatic heights, while never losing her intense humanness. Sam Wood directed the production with a dolt hand, and tho work of • p supporting players is uniformly excel lout. Helen Mack and R.ussell Hardie score as tho young lovers. Beulah Bondi plays the shrewish wife with her customary gusto. Jean ITershoit is the suave art dealer. The idealistic art critic is well portrayed by If. B. Warner, ■oid other roles are well tilled by Helen Shipman, George Coulouris and Ellon Lowe.