AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18253, 23 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 (lie World” she has a splendid story, an appealing leading man (Neil Hamilton), and excellent support. Tn 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 Liiiley (Gavin Gordon) on the plea that Liiiley lias dishonored his sister. So Linley lifts, but not the sister that Bob thinks. Linley has dishonored Corinne (Helen Vinsen), to shield whom Dell (Constance Bennett) takes the blame. But when the blame not only for dishonor, but for the murder itself, points in Dell’s direction, her true lover, as the prosecuting attorney, fails to press the. ease, 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 (heir 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 One of the most amazing mystery thrillers of the year is now at the Regent. “Terror Aboard” is a strange, weird, diabolical mystery in an eerie setting of drama and excitement. The plot centres around a madman’s effort to wipe out the entire passenger list and crew of a private yacht. Halliday, playing (be role of a world-famous financier, whose gigantic frauds are exposed while he is cruising aboard bis 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 lake 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. All excellent supporting programme includes a Betty Hoop cartoon, “Pretty Puppies,” a revue, anil news reels. The box plans; are now open for “Melody Cruise." Miss Isabel Sharpies will present her pupils at a dance recital to bo hold in the City Hall on Friday, November 24. ' Other artists also will assist.