AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18252, 22 November 1933, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE Constance Bennett is not always lucky enough to secure a good story for the pictures she is put into, but in Two Against the World” she has a splendid st-ory, an appealing leading man (Neil Hamilton), and excellent support. In fact, the Majestic has secured a really good picture, in which the star is able to do herself justice. Bob Hamilton (Allen Vincent) shoots Victor Linley (Gavin Gordon) on the plea that Linley has dishonored his sister. So Linley lias, but hot the sister that Bob thinks. Linley has dishonored Corinne (Helen Vinsen), to shield whom Dell (Constance Bennett) takes the blame. But when the blame hot only for dishonor, but for the murder itself, points in Dell’s direction, her true lover, as the prosecuting attorney, fails to press the case, and thereby incurs legal disgrace, but wins Dell. ‘Needless to add, the lawyer-lover is played by Neil Hamilton. In a melodramatic ‘‘trial scene]’ picture like this, some comedy is required, and Constance Bennett and Hamilton bring a great deal of humor and smart repartee into their love-making. A good array of featurettes, ‘ including a comedy, a scenic, an orchestral novelty, a nature study, and a Rathe news,, completes a programme of high entertainment value. REGENT THEATRE “Terror Aboard,” now at the Itegeni, centres around a madman’s effort to wipe out the entire passenger list and crew of a private yacht. Halliday, playing the role of a world-famous financier, whose gigantic frauds are exposed while he is cruising aboard his own vessel, decides that the only way for him to escape is to dispose of everyone aboard, with the exception of Miss Grey, whom he intends to take to a deserted island with him. One. by one passengers and crew succumb, each death more mystifying, more gruesome than the last. The arrival on the scene of Neil Hamilton, an aviator in love with Miss Grey, brings the film to a dramatic climax. Comedy relief is supplied by Charlie Buggies. An excellent supporting programme includes a Betty Boop_- cartoon, “Pretty Puppies,” a revue, ami news reels. The box plans are now open for “Melody Cruise.” •■MARITANA.”

The Gisborne Choral Society's enterprise in selecting the bright opera “Maritana” with which to conclude its 193.1 season should attract a large audienco to the Opera House on Thursday evening. The concluding rehearsals with the full orchestra have put a finish on the production which will delight patrons. Though all the numbers in the original score are being given, some have had repetition passages deleted, making it possible to keep well within the usual concert time schedule. This does not affect the sequence of the opera, which can be readily followed from the printed programme, most of the solos being given a complete rendition. The work of the soloists is highly creditable, while their concerted numbers with the chorus will be a feature of the performance. The production of a full operatic score of this class entails a great deal of strenuous rehearsal and tuition, and it is to be hoped that the society's effort will be rewarded by a large audience, as it is intended to prodtico ftlrthcr light operas next season. The overture will commence at “.'jo p.m. TE KARAKA GYMNASIUM DISPLAY Tiie full gymnasium squad of the Gisborne Y.JV1.0.A., numbering 80 performers, will present its spectacular display in the Te Karaka Hall to-morrow evening, und Te Karaka residents will he given an opportunity of witnessing the brilliant demonstration which met with so much success in Gisborne, Tokomaru Bay, and ltuatorin. Special features will be the appearance of “Ajax, the Strong Man” and the Paltridge Ballets, and excellent music will be provided by a full orchestra.