AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17820, 1 July 1932, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

regent theatre “ Bought,” slurring Constance Bennett, !hp highest paid film star, and admitted by critics to be her best role, will have its final presentation ut Hie Regent Theatre this evening. To-monpiv at the matinee another of the Regent’s splendid doublefeature pro gram in pis will be presented, —namely, “The Great Lover,” starring Adolphe Menjou, the screeu’s most popular “man of the world,” and a supporting east that includes Go-pe Dunne, Eniost Torrem-e, Baelanoya, and Neil Hamilton, and “The Flying .Popl,” a drama of British civil aviation, with Reuita Hume and a superb all-British east, in the sophisticated ,role of “The Great Lover” Menjou has tin- part of PaiircJ, u celebrated opera ptnr, who is as noted for his loves as for his magnificent voice. The story •centres around the attempt of Menjou to make Miss Dunn his .mistress, as lie has done so often in the past with various beauties. Thin time he meets more than his mutch and at the climax is pliipod at a decided disadvantage ■by the girl he once imagined so.naive. A 'word must also lie said for the attractive settings, which range from an ocean liner to spectacular interiors of the .Metropolitan Opera House. The Daily Mirror refers to “The Flying Fool” as “rattling good eqtertainmeiit, with thrills that are thrills.” The picture is-olaiined to be a* thrilling as Howard Hughe’s more expensive production, “Hell’s Angels.”

MAJBSTJC THEATRE. To-night will see the final presentation of Nancy Carroll in “Personal Maid.” u diverting story pi' u very modem Cinderella in search for thrills, which incidentally gives theatre-goers a delightfully intimate glimpse into the lives of the exclusive rich in America. Should a wife divorce or forgive an unfaithful husband? is 11a' theme dealt with in “Good Sport.’' the modem society drama, which will have its premiere presentation at the Majestic Theatre tomorrow. The story has strength and action, and is laid against a dazzling background of feminine beauty and clothes which are the ‘ last word” and give milady an interesting forecast of what will be worn during the coming season. It is presented by an able cast headed by .Joint Boles, Linda Watkins, Greta Nissen, ITedda Hooper, SuHy Blanc and Mina Cambell, “The ’ eternal triangle” agiim supplies the motive for the story, hut in it» enlargement the theme takes a decided!v novel turn. Limbi Watkins plavs the role of the wife, whose illusions are .shattered by the discovery that her husband had been playing the gay Jjotliavio. Mother (He< da Hooper) advises divorce, but Linda has decked pn another scheme. Why dul her husband loi.k elsewhere, she asked herself. She w'us still seekiftg the answer—without much success--when a. complication entered in the person of Boles, who p'lavs the millionaire, hut not <->\r.iSophisticated business man. How the tati'de is finally unravelled makes a programme is on a par with the h ch standard maintained throughout by the excellent features.

The usual weekly card evening will ljC held in thd Kuhutiu Bowling Cl u b’h pavilion this evening. The ladies’ committee will provide tie stumer. A hearty invitation w exSp to »« tint vloyor, to 1,0 present.