ENTERTAINMENTS CURRENT ATTRACTIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 25 May 1938, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT ATTRACTIONS

STATE: LAST TWO NIGHTS OF “VICTORIA THE GREAT.” FRIDAY: JANE WITHERS IN “WILD AND WOOLLY.” “Victoria the Great”—screen masterpiece—is to be presented to-night and finally to-morrow. No greater compliment can be paid to a picture than enthusiastic audiences which have crowded the theatre each evening to witness a spectacle rare and unforgettable. Interest throughout the picture does not wane as the succession of thrilling events connected with Victoria's reign are shown in perfect order. Rarely does one see a picture of such magnificence and intending patrons are strongly recommended to reserve.

A wild buckaroo out where the West begins, “Ginger” Jane Withers begins where the wild West leaves off in her grandest Twentieth Century-Fox comedj r , “Wild and Woolly,” which opens on Friday’. Riding runaway trains, getting her “gun-toting” grandfather, played by Academy Award winner Walter Brennan, into a duel, scaring the wits out of tenderfoot pals in a graveyard at midnight, chasing city gangsters on a careening stagecoach, and roping young lovers* into romance, Jane makes Buffalo Bill look like a softie. Completely’ surrounded by her greatest cast, in the most hilarious show these pandemonium-makers have ever been in, that Jane Withers girl learns the ways of the West from her old-timer grandfather, but what the West learns from Jane makes hilarious comedy.

MAJESTIC FINALLY TO-NIGHT—-“UNDER COVER OF NIGHT.” THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. VAUDEVILLE AND PICTURES.

“Under Cover of Night’’ which screens finally to-night at the Majestic presents a new type of mystery story. With Edmund Lowe and Florence Rice heading a talented cast the film shows the audience each clue as the detective comes upon it and accordingly follows him in the process of solution step by step. It is a clever technique and proved its popularity with yesterday's audiences, mystery, thrills and romance are cunningly combined.

The management advise that on Thursday and Friday next they have secured an engagement of the famous Jack Carter, renowned .Yodeller and hillbilly cowboy. As a yodeller he has no equal and he is an expert stockwhip exponent as well. Accompanying himself on the banjomandolin Jack Carter’s yodelling is a riot and his expert manipulation of thcstockwhip combines to give an act thal Loth intrigues and amuses patrons. In his New Zealand tour to date Jack Carter has established records in every situation, so much so that managers have endeavoured to engage him for return seasons. This, however, has proved impossible owing to future contracts . The picture to be presented on this programme is the hilarious Comedy “As Good as Married" starring John Boles and Doris Nolan. Told in the language of laughs it is the sprightliest film since the first male learned the inside story of marriage—and wished he was outside. A selected array featurettes gives a programme which for variety and quality would be hard to equal. Prices are as usual. The most amazing adventure romance of all time Anthony Hope’s “The Prisoner of Zenda" commences a distinguished season cn Saturday next and intending patrons are advised to make early reservation as interest in this splendid production is hi S h - Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll are starred at the head of a strong and capable cast. REGENT : TO-MGHTT, GUEST NIGHT “WOMAN TRAP" AND “EVERY NIGHT AT EIGHT.” How front-page reporters, specialising in gangland crime, secure their tips from underworld sources, is illustrated in the opening sequence of “Woman Trap.” George Murphy portrays the reporter who gets a tip on a jewel robbery. Not only does he know who j stole the registered diamonds, out. when a double-crossing member of the band | is “wiped out" he has the “dope” long I before the authorities get wind of the rfiair. There is. in the picture, an expose of the conflicting motives of pride and outrage which dominate the proprietor of a daily. The owner is proud that one of his staff is so unerringly "in the know". There is also humiliation in the idea that a reporter is consorting with criminals. The reporter gets the coveted assignment to the crime scoop of the year. Others in the cast of players are Gertrude Michael, Roscoe Karns, Akim Tamiroff. Samuel S. Hinds. Sidney Blackmer and Dean Jagger. The associate feature. ‘‘Every Night at Eight.” with George Raft, Alice Faye. Frances Langford. Patsy KeW. the Three Radio Rogues find Walter Catlett, in the leading roles, introduces brand new hit songs by Dorothy Fields. James McHugh, and Ted Fio Rito. The story is a brisk, live- i ly romantic yarn of three young bar- 1 mony singers and a dance-band leader who start as rank amateurs on an amateur radio hour, and soon become national favourites.