AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17441, 13 April 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE Tq-nigftt will be the commencement of the Majestic’s stage presentations. Every evening two new acts will be presented. New lighting effects and new scenery have been installed and and will give the stage a very beautiful appearance. The two, presentations this evening will bo funny Watty Watkjns in songs of comedy, and "Roma,” and her eight sunshine girls. The picture is ‘'The Richest Man in the World.” It is a page torn from the life of any father. Louis Mann, the Danish star, was specially engaged for this production, and picture lovers of Gisborne will have thq opportunity of seeing one of the finest portrayals of character ever enacted on the screen. It is a brilliant masterpiece of histrionic art and a performance that will live in the memory. Leila Hyams, Robert Montgomery, Elliot Nugent and Mary Duncap head the large cast. The story is full of deep pathos, tense drama, and delightful comedy. Two men start life togetherone makes ambition his god and amasses yagt wealth; the other seeks his happiness in his family, content to work and practice self denial that his children may have the. advantages that wero denied him. His son, through bad company, faces a criminal charge, but the father fights side by side with him, spending his last penny to vindicate his son. The daughter whom he loves batter than life disobeys him and forms a clandestine engagement. AU his love and care are repaid by thoughtless in--gratitude. However, when they see their father almost brought to ruin through their actions they overwhelm him with the real affection that has lain dormant in their hearts. A very excellent programme of featnrettes in hews, music, comedy and song is also screened.

THE REGENT Ruth Chattevlon and Clive Brook. There is magic. in these names for picture lovers the. wprJd over. .Seldom Itefore in the history of tilmdom iutvo two artists reached such universal popu, larity. In their new production, “The fetter “Wife” they surpass all previous efforts. They hpve given to the screen a great domestic drama. Without doubt “The Better Wife’ ’is one of the greatest talking pictures of human affairs that lias ever come to the screen. The story deals with an age-old question —can a man marry a woman far beneath him socially and survivo the censure of society and his own self respect? Neil Dunlop, a brilliant lawyer with great social standing, in a fit of rage because his financee has jilted him, weds a chorus girl, Pansey Gray. He learns that his action has made him an object of derision and sympathy, while Pansey quickly learns that the glamor of being a distinguished man’s wife is non-exist-ant to one of her 'class. She fights madly to fit herself, but the truth is slowly forced upon her that her husband, whom she loves better than life, is drinking himself to ruin and disgrace to kill his remorse at the foolish marriage. He is on the verge of social oblivion when she, with her womanly wit and strength of purpose, turns the scale. “The Better Wife" should remain for years as the standard of all domestic dramas. To-day a. special attraction was presented for the children. "Micky the Mouse” started his joyous adventures, and they will be continued every Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday. An excellent supporting programme is screened with “The Better Wife.”