AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18266, 8 December 1933, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE ‘•Men ’Must Fight,” which commences to-morrow at tho Regent, features Diana VVynyard, the beautiful English star of “Cavalcade.” She appears as a nurse iu the war, whose lover is killed in action, and she determines that her son will never fight. She and'the boy become ardent, pacifists and succeed in convincing the boy’s foster-father that war can be avoided by a refusal to fight. War comes and the family sees the wrecking of an ideal. Lewis Stone gives one of his finest characterisations as Miss Wynyard’s husband, and others in the cast are May Robson, Phillips Holmes, and Robert Young. “Christopher Strong,” featuring Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke, and Ralph Forbes, will receive its final screening to-night. lardy Cynthia Barrington dared to wrest from life the thrills she wanted at a 230-mile-an-hotir pace, pursuing the great god Speed in airplanes, automobiles, and motor boats. Sir Christopher Strong was piously devoted to a conservative wife and Parliamentary documents for 20 years. Meeting at 4 o’clock in the morning at a> party, Cynthia and Christopher rise in her plane into the early morning’s clandestine atmosphere- and into a great love, culminating in a terrific sacrifice. MAJESTIC THEATRE The lives of the passengers on a liner on its way from Hamburg to New York are portrayed with great realism in “Luxury Liner,” which will have its final screening to-night. The film depicts the drama of the vessel from steerage to first cabin, exposing tbe intimate lives of the men and women bound from Germany to New York. A harassed doctor, trailing his wife, who has eloped with another man; a powerful financier, even on the voyage playing with stocks and women; an opera singer; a girl in the steerage exploiting her own charms to get herself into tho first class; an elevator operator, posing as a ship’s officer 'before gaping girl passengers: a dying mother, keeping alive long enough to see her son in New York once moro, these are among tho many whose lives are dissected by the camera. To-morrow.—Two long features will be presented, “The Crime of the Century,” featuring Jean Hersholt, Wynne Gibson and Stewart Erwin, ami “Flaming Guns,” starring Tom Mix.