ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 13 January 1938, Page 13

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT ATTRACTIONS

NOW AT MAJESTIC: BREEZY SCOTS COMEDY. “STORM IN A TEV CUP.” COMING SATURDAY, BETTE DAVIS IN “MARKED WOMAN”

“Storm in a Teacup” tells with gently satiric**! humour, of the storm aroused when an honest young reporter emblaz oned across the front page of the local newspape** of a small Scottish town tne story of the town Provost’s refusal to help a poor ice-creafn vendor, who is in danger of losing her beloved dog. Certainly, the dog is not important, nor is the ice-cream vendor, nor. really, is the Provost, except in his own eyes. But he is electoral candidate in a by-elec-tion, and the story has disastrous re- j suits on his first campaign speech. Events follow one another with almost fantastic rapidity, until, before long the whole of England is rocking to the reverberations of this small town thunder. Audiences will rock, too, for there is fine comedy in this film, which has had the benefit of dialogue by James Bridie, the brilliant Scottish playwright. who has so richly the gift of what his countrymen call pesky hum-

our. Also, there is acting of a very high order from Sara Allgood, veteran of the Abbey Theatre Players, who throws herself wholeheartedly into the part of Hcnoria Hegarty. the ice-cream vendor: from Cecil Parker, who is pomposity itself as the Provost: from the enchanting Vivien Leigh who makes you notice her charm and ability as the Provost s daughter. And then there i Rex Harrison. This voung actor, pla.n but pleasantly so. was remembered for his work in a small part in “Men Are Not Gods." and here, in a role that gives him splendid scope, he turns in a grand performance Ursula Jeans satisfactorily irritating a. 4 the Pr >- vost's toc-loving satellite: Gus Mcas her editor husband; and Edgar Bruce as McKellar. are others in a cast that is outstandingly competent. A varied pre-interval session includes New Services, a Coloured Disney Cartoon. “Three Little Wolves.” a travelogue of “Vienna,” and varieties.

REGENT: FINAL SCREENING OF “SHANGHAI” AND “SMART GIRL.” TO-MORROW AT Z P.M. “FORLORN RIVER” AND “THE GREAT GAMBINI.”

! Some of the finest action picture: I of wild horses in their native haunt: I ever caught by the motion picture cam ' era form some of the high spots ir (“Forlorn River,” the action-crammec story of the West. An excellent story from the capable pen of Zane Grey a competent cast of players headed b} Larry Crabbe, June Martel, Syd Say' lor and Harvey Stephens, round out ar ! excellent evening’s entertainment. The ; story deals with the depredations oJ a band of desperadoes, headed b> Stephens, who determine to outwit £ buyer from the army remount service and steal the horses consigned to the government. How they do this and how they are frustrated —by Crabbe and hi? pal Saylor, forms the thrilling story. Considerable comedy is supplied by Chester Conklin, who will be remembered by older film goers as the walrus moustachioed comedian who was Charlie Chaplin’s partner in many of the latter’s early pictures. Romance is supplied by beautiful June Martel iand John Patterson, the latter a new- ! comer to pictures who has recently | been “discovered.” The manner in : which he handles his role in “Forlorn j River” augurs for a brilliant career in : pictures for him. The associate feature ! ‘The Great Gambini,” which features i blindfolded assistant “read” sealed mes- ] marily a thrill-packed mystery. Tamii’- | off is the star attraction at a night J club, where he and his beautiful- | blindfolded assistant ‘read” sealed mesj sages sent him by the audience. When TamirofF prophesies that Marion Marsh, planning to be married the next day, will not marry her fiance, it is first considered merely a bad joke, but when the fiance is found murdered the next morning, the case takes on a more serious aspect. Everybody in the film is undei* suspicion—Tamirof; Miss Marsh; her disappointed suitor, John Trent; her father. Reginald Denny; and her stepmother, Genevieve Tobin. Tamiroff calmly takes delight in pointing out clues to a pair of detectives, William Demarest and Brophy, and then, just as they are about to arrest the whole party, he shows, just as calmly, and just as conclusively, that nobody there could possibly have committed the crime. The picture reaches its climax with one of the most

novel twists ever brought to the screen, in which the murderer is revealed. Chapter 11 of the thrilling serial Ace Drummond concludes another Regent quality programme. Reservations may be made now at R. Thomas’s. (Telephone 596). STATE: LAST NIGHT OF “CHINA PASSAGE.’ TO MORROW AT 2 P.M., JANE WITHERS IN HILARIOUS NAUTICAL COMEDY, “THE HOLY TERROR”

To be cresented finally to-night the exciting smuggling story, “China Passage.’ which has been delightin > big audiences this week. Worthy J mention is the excellent supporting featurettes connected with • this programme

The Stale's sensational list of out standing programmes for 1938 is again evident by the screening of the hilan i ous nautical comedy, “The Holy Terror” which commences to-morrow at 2 p.m A rollicking whirlwind of mischief ano i! excitement, the irrepressible Jane ; Withers romps merrily through the!' laughter-provoking situations in this i' latest and gayest fun-feast of her |' career, involving her in hilarious doings l with the navy. The young madcap is j ably supported by Anthony Martin ! Leah Ray, Joan Davis El Brendel and j 1 Joe Lewis When “Ginger” Jane join- ! 1 the fleet and proceeds to baffle the admirals, while making herself soiiaj l with the midshipmen. the norm* .j 1 course of events gets thrown for aj < riotous loss as the impish hoyden sings j < her way into trouble, and then dances j her way right out again. Although she is the pet of the Naval Air Base, the "holy terror” so often involves herself < and the sailors in hot water that the 1 irate commandant assigns a sailor, An- ! thony Martin, to look after her. An- i thony is already interested in looking 1 after Leah Ray, the lovely owner of "The Golden Anchor.” so Jane finds i herself spending a lot of time at the 1 inn. When spies, interested in learning I details ot the navy’s new airplane, dis- ’ cover that the second storey of the cafe 1 provides a perfect view of the hanger < through powerful glasses, strange things 1 start to happen A musical show which t Jane and the sailors put on at the inn r breaks up in a free-for-all, started by 1 strangers in sailor garb, who mysteri- j

ously disr ppear after the fight Her place now declared “out of bounds. Lean is forced to close up. whereupon the spies secretly move in. to foeu their attention on the new plane. Jane appeases official wrath and gets permission for Leah to reopen but when they blunder in on the conspirators, they are seized and 1< eked in a closet, while the spies conclude their notes or. | the air manoeuvres How Jane er I capes, and in a riotous conclusion i breads up the spy ring and reunites An- ! thony and Leah, makes a hilarious cli j max for the funniest picture in which j the frolicsome young star has .yet appeared. j