AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17440, 11 December 1930, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THE REGENT Tho locale of "The Four Feathers," the Paramount sound synchronised attraction at the Regent Theatre, moves from the flower scented lanes of Old England to the acrid heat of the Africandesert and back to England. When .Kipling wrote. "So, 'ore's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'olne in the Sudan. You're a pore benighted 'eathen, but a first class Bgh'tin' man,'' lie made tho Fuzzy Wuzzy and the British square and tho "Sudan famous apart from the glory of their own merits. The only time a British square had been broken Was by these wild savages of the Sudan desert, yet Napoleon had thrown his legions in vain against them at Waterloo. The famed breaking of the square bv these "first class flghtin' men" is rceiiacted in "The Four Feathers." A column is,marching to the relief of a British fort in the Sudan. Suddenly from one of the surrounding hills the shrill cries of the Sudanese strike the ears of the soldiers. A hasty order and the famed British square is formed, a solid phalanx of men and ,ba3* one ts against, the like of which Napoleon's men had failed. Here in an outlying post of Empire another square fought against annihilation. The waves of tribesmen beat on and on with relentless fury and fanatical rage and broke the square. That is a thrilling episode from "The Four Feathers." " The east includes William Powell, Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Clive Brook, and Noah Beery.:

MAJESTIC THEATRE .Undoubtedly one of the finest of its class is "The Gamblers," the Warner Bros.' and Vitaphono talking production which continues its season at the Majestic Theatre to-night. "The Camblers" is a screen revival of Charles Klein's stage play, which enjoyed a phenomenal run on Broadway and on Hie road. It is the story of a father and son high in the world of finance whose passion for gambling has placed the vast savings institution of which they arc sponsors on the verge of ruin. A Government inspection has been Ardered, and the man in charge of the investigation has mar-, ried the woman who, at one time/ was the affianced of the younger Emerson. The wife of the prosecutor, knowing the guilt of the younger Emerson,, insists that her, husband quash the indictment against' him. This the prosecutor does for. love of his wife, thus losing the opportunity to be advanced to the liigltei position he covets. When the youth is free, however, the prosecutor's wife turns from him, and goes back to her husband. The cast includes H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson, .lason Robards, George Fawcett, Johnny Arthur, Frank Campeau, Pauline Carzon, and Charles Sellon. The talking, singing, and dancing featurottcs are an entertain ■men I in themselves.