AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17950, 30 November 1932, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

RECENT THEATRE “The Mouthpiece/’ featuring Warren William, Sidney Fox and Alice McMalhon, in the lifle story of a young criminal lawyer, will be screened lor the last time at the Regent Theatre this evening. The supports are noteworthy. One of the smartest comedies the screen has produced is “Paris,” which will commence its season at the Regent Theatre on Thursday at. the matinee at 2 p.m. The leads are Irene Bordoni and Jack "Buchanan, and there has seldom been a hotter entertainment on either the stage or the screen. 'The film has everything to recommend it. The story opens in America, where Cora Subbott, president of a .small-town purity- league, is saying good-bye to her s’on Andrew, who is off to Paris to study architecture. Andrew duly arrives, and soon becomes entangled with Vivienne Bolland, the idol of the Paris stage. Vivienne agrees to marry Andrew provided his mother consents. Mother arrives hot foot to disentangle her son from an alliance which she regards as impossible against all the family tradition, and finds plenty to worry her in Paris. She meets Guj Pennell, Vivienne’s leading man, who is very much in love with her. Guy by mistake gives mother a glass of brandy when she faints, and thus starts . the old lady off. Between them all they provide a denouement as crisp as it is unexpected. The supports will be attractive. MAJESTIC THEATRE With popular Ben Lyon as a personable “Prince Charming,” and Rose Hobart as the lowly maid of all work whom the young scion of the Brock mil lions raises from rags to riches, “Compromised,” a delightful modern version of the Cinderella story, will have its final presentation at the Majestic Theatre to-night. “The Studio Murder Mystery," and a further film of the “Sports Slants” series, are the main attractions on the supporting programme. Filmed as -a silent picture some years .ago, Edna Ferber’s novel “So Big,” returns to the screen as a talking picture with equal force. The film will open a season at the Majestic Theatre to-mor-row. The role of Selina Peake, originally played- by Colleen Moore, was given to Barbara Stanwyck. She appears as a young school teacher who lives at the home of a crude farmer, whose son, Roelf, she helps with his lessons and who adores her. Eventually, Selina marries ope of the Dutch farmers, Pervus Dejong, and her life becomes that of a farmer’s wife—but instead of thinking it drudgery, she sees beauty in everything connected with the soil. Finally a boy, Dirk, is born, and her whole hope’is centred in him. He grows up, however, into a weakling, and it is Roelf. the bov who adored her, who attains the fame. Selina craves, returning home as a renowned sculptor. George Brent (the husband of Ruth Chatterton) is splendid in this part and Bette Davis and Hardie Albright are in other prominent roles. ' , “MOVIE CRAZY” FOR THE REGENT Two years in the making, produced without stint of time, expert skill and money ... to meet the well known standard set by the world-famous comedian, Harold Lloyd—it is not necessary to give plot or story, but sufficient it is to say that Harold Lloyd will-be in* Gisborne on Saturday next in “Movie Ora/.v.” It goes to his head, and to his heart. “A clocked audience in one sequence laughed 1 / minutes without a stop,” reports the • ‘Hollywood Reporter. ”