ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 21 December 1936, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT ATTRACTIONS “JACK OF ALL TRADES” AT STATE “FANG AND CLAW” ON WEDNESDAY Jack Hulbert’s unlimited admirers found high delight on Saturday night in his newest mirth maker “Jack of All Trades” which provides an uproariously funny story woven round a series of songs and dances that have been equalled only by his “Jack’s the Boy.” Robertson Hare is a perfect foil for Hulbert’s riotous antics, while that clever dancer Gina Malo provides the feminine interest. In “Fang and Claw” Bring-’Em-Back-Alive Frank Buck’s newest film, v/hich will be shown on Wednesday, the larger animals, such as tigers, crocodiles and a baby armorplated rhinoceros, are the principal actors in the numerous thrilling episodes. The film nevertheless contains intimate camera studies of the smaller denizens of the jungle. When Frank Buck sets out to catch monkeys he bags them in wholesale lots. In one highly interesting and amusing episode in the movie, what appears to be literally thousands of them swarm down out of the trees and ravenously attack the tempting food that has been left as bait. The great net soon closes in upon their dining-room, however, and some hundred whiskered wanderoo monkeys remain as compulsory guests. MAJESTIC SPECIAL: RAFAEL SABATINI’S “CAPTAIN BLOOD’’ WEDNESDAY: BENIAMINO GIGLI IN “FORGET-ME-NOT”, Rafael Sabatini’s mammoth adventure spectacle “Captain Blood” has been brilliantly transferred to the screen and stands as one of the greatest of productions. With its colourful romance and its gusty adventure the tale loses none of its thrills in the elaborate screen version. It is a story worthy of being so filmed, and stands as one of the most gigantic productions even Hollywood has ever attempted. Heading the enormous cast is Errol Flynn whose success is synonymous with the acclamation accorded “Captain Blood” to-day. Flynn, recently an “unknown,” is now the most sought after male star in the world. Opposite him is the beautiful Olivia de Havilland who enchanted local patrons with her portrayal in “A Midsummer Night's Dream.” All in all “Captain Blood” stands as a distinct achievement to the motion picture industry. Patrons are advised that the Majestic Christmas attraction commences on Wednesday next with the world’s greatest living tenor, Beniamino Gigli in a story of rare charm “Forget-Me-Not.” In addition to his wonderful voice, Gigli brings to bear a powerful personality and reveals himself as a first-class actor in a story written especially for him. The result is a grand performance in an exceptionally fine picture. On Boxing night the management announce yet another success special from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers starring Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck. The picture is “His Brother’s Wife” a powerful and daringly drawn screen story. An excellent supporting cast includes Jean Hersholt, Joseph Calleia, and John Eldridge. REGENT: FINALLY TO-NIGHT, “BOIIDERTOWN,” “MEET NERO WOLFE.” TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, SABATINI’S “MAR. RIAGE OF CORBAL”

The final screening of the Regent’s week-end double feature attraction, ■’Bordertown” and “Meet Nero Wolfe,” takes place to-night. Tuesday and Wednesday’s attraction is “The Marriage of Corbal,” and is a spectacular adaptation of the fastmoving Rafael Sabatini novel, “The Uupitals of Corbal,” a story of the other side of the French Revolution, into which has been interwoven all the living, vivid atmosphere that Is so great a feature of Sabatihi’s novels, with Nils Asther as Citizen-Deputy Varennes, young, unscrupulous, but not undistinguished, who rescues a beautiful girl, Cleonie (played by Hazel Terry), almost from the very jaws of the guillotine’s hungry blade, because her beauty has intrigued him. Disguising her as a drummer-boy, he takes her into the country, where she escapes from his passionate advances and is befriended by the Marquis of Corbal. Infuriated, Varennes passes a law compelling all unmarried aristocrats to marry a peasant within three days. The Marquis refuses to comply, and on the second day, marries Cleonie in his private chapel. “Those whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder”.. . . and even as the words of the priest officiating at the marriage still rang in the ears of the happy pair, Varennes arrived to enforce the order that every aristocrat must marry a peasant, an order which he had cunningly issued to dispose of this “accursed Corbal,” who had dared to intervene on behalf of the lovely Cleonie, whom he, Varennes, had previously saved from the guillotine—for himself. The thrilling climax of the film is as stirring as it is unusual—a fitting finale to such outstanding entertainment. The attraction at the Regent for next Thursday and Friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas night, is “Naughty Marietta,” featuring Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Macdonald. Plans are now open.