AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17606, 23 October 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE Eddie Qaillan’s first starring comedy, and perhaps the best of bis long series of screen “hits,” “Night Work,” will have its. last' screening to-night. Ho is cast as a £3-a-week. clerk and window dresser in a big departmental store. lie accidentally becomes adopted father to a little orphan—anil her nurse. The cast includes Sally Starr and Frances Upton The supporting featurettes are good “Monte Carlo,” a delightful musical romance directed by Ernst Lubi.tscji, tin* producer of “The Love Parade,” is to commence screening at the ' Majestic Theatre to-morrow. Jeanette MacDonald plays the part of a princess who rebels against her proposed marriage to the wealthy But effete. Prince Otto (Claude Allister), and runs away to the Riviera. There she meets a count who is masquerading as a barber, and the two fall in love. There are many amusing complications, however, before a happy end ing is reached. Jack. Buchanan, the noted London stage star, gives a polished portrayal ip the leading male rolo The musical score is delightful. REGENT THEATRE To-morrow will see the reopening of the Regent Theatre, yyltli the presenta tion of a notable picture, “East Lynne.” Memories of a generation that is. gone are recalled by that favorite of theatregoers of 30 years ago. 'The theme, settings, and characters are essentially English, and every trace of exaggeration to produce effect is absent. Tim story commences with the marriage in the late sixties of Lady Isobel, an attractive London society girl, to Robert Carlisle, a successful young country solicitor The eternal triangle is formed by the entry into the story of the debonair Captain Leveson, a rejected suitor of the bride, who comes to her home as a guest —a home' which since the wedding b as been' ’divided against itself by the machinations of Robert’s sister Cornelia, who is bitterly prejudiced against Isobel. Bv innuendo she succeeds in making the husband suspect that his wife lias been guilty of a liaison with Leveson/ Estranged' from her relatives, she wanders, to the Continent, lyjievc Leveson gets her to agree to’allow him to care for her. Their' wanderings make an appeal ing story. OPERA HOUSE—“HIGH JINKS’! b t .■ -■ • ■ ■ • . Wifli well drilled attractive ballets, brjglii choruse?, abundant humor, good costumes, and an. excellently balanced orchestra, “High Jinks” bids fair t° eclipse all previous presentations. “High Jinks” vfilF exude its exuberance over the Operg Ilduso footlights front next Wednesday to 'Saturday—for four nights “GUI 1 Myu Slump’' will be forgotten. “High Jinks” is a farce —rind farce is super-abundant in comedy. Its ever haunting refrains from the. popular “Spine,thing Seems Tingle-ing-ling” to the beautiful finale, will enthrall and cheer all blues away. “Love’s Own fuss,”■ “Wb e o Sammy Sang the Marseillaise,” “Jim,” and “I’m Through with Roaming Romeos” are dlic comedy that are mirth provokers. Than there are “Chi Chi,” “My Woman’s Heart,’’ and “Courtship a, la America ilic,” duets of outstanding merit. Of the'ballets', in “High' Jinks” it is team work that counts, and in this production the ladies of the ballets have ox- . celled: themselves. Bride of place is given to the tap ballet. Other popular bMlots grp “Walking My Baby Back Home,” “Ifriving Me Crazy,” and “Sweet Jenny Lee,” All these must be seep t° bo appreciated. New scenery enhances the production, and an orchestra of 12 performers is an artistic treat in itself.