AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18025, 28 February 1933, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. To-day will bo the last screenings ot a brilliant picturisation of Sax. Rohmer s thrilling mystery story, ‘‘The Mask ot Fu Manoiiu.” Boris Karloff is ideally suited as the ambitious Oriental potentate, who combines Western science with Eastern callousness, and keeps death rays, torture chambers, and huge saurians and reptiles for his enemies. Lewis Stone, Karen Morloy, Charles Starrett, Myrna Loy, and Jean Ifefsliolt appear in the strong <?ast. llow long should a woman remain true to a man after that man has gone out of her life! Claudette Colbert,'in Paramount’s ‘‘The Man" From Yesterday,” coming to the Regent to-morrow, laces this problem, as the unofficial widow of a man, reported dead in war. who returns to claim her and their child, too date, ‘‘-'he Man From Yesterday” opens on the v.L’irlwind romance of Claudette Colbert and Clive Brook.. Brook, an English army captain, on leave from the front*, sleeps Claudette into marriage just one hour before he is due to report ior service again. They have scarcely time to seal their wedding voivs' with a kiss. Brook is shell-shocked in action, and. incorrectly, reported dead. It is years later, when Brook, a broken man, and Miss Colbert, now really in love with another man, meet. The wife must make her choice between her new happiness and her outworn duty. MAJESTIC THEATRE

A welcome re-screening of a delightful screen play takes place to-night .when “Grumpy” opens at the Majestic. Ihe ' characterisation of “Grumpy” b.v C'yril '.Maude is a rare treat, and something in which, everyone will delight. There is a swift plot, romance of real charm and a perplexing melo-dramatic mystery brought to a satisfactory finish by Grumpy. The story is as follows: Grumpy, in his day a famous criminal lawyer now retired, lives in Ids English country house with Ids granddaughter (Frances Dade). lie is constantly pretending to have a bad temper, but really is a lovable, big-hearted man. Jarvis (Paul Cavanagh), a recent acquaintance of Virginia’s, is their week-end guest, when Ernest Heron, Virginia’s sweetheart, comes home from South Africa, sent back to England as the secret bearer of a valuable diamond. I his he tells only to Grumpy, who likes him and wants him to marry Virginia. That night, in the dark library. Ernest is attacked and knocked unconsciopsr When lie is found the diamond is gone. Clutched in his hand is a flower—a camellia. Grumpy sets out to find the criminal and recover the diamond. lie believes the camellia an important clue, and so it proves to be. Grumpy’s investigations lead him to Loudon and back again before the. mystery is solved.