AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18284, 30 December 1933, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE

Fay Wray as Ann Carver in ‘ Ann Carver’s Profession,” which will he screened to-night at. 7.30 and 10 o’clock, comes to the conclusion that “Love tolerates no rivals, not even success.” Regretfully, Ann Carver, successful feminine barrister, tries to recapture what she had foolishly thrown away. It is late to give up her career as a lawyer and make love her real career. All this is dramatically presented in this photoplay. Supporting Fay Wray in the leading male iolc is Gene Raymond, a young player who has appeared in countless successful roles. Beautiful Claire Dodd is cast in an important supporting part. Others in the east are Arthur Pierson, Claude Gillingwator, Prank Con rov and Jessie Ralph. “TELL ME TO-NIGHT”—This outstanding British musical comedy will commence a week’s season on Monday. Jan Kiepura, the celebrated Continental tenor, is brilliant in the leading role, lie is a handsome young man and a good actor, and possesses a most remarkable singing voice. His songs'in the show include the popular “Tell Me To-night’ and excerpts from “Rigoletto,” “La Traviata,” and “La Boheme.” The comedy element is in the hands of Edmund Gwenn, Sonnie Hale, and Athene Seyler, whose work deserves the highest praise, especially the duet between Hale and Miss Seyler. Magda Schneider provides most of the romance. The settings are mostly in the picturesque Swiss lakes district. A stirring and dramatic spectacle of the development of the British Navy since the days of Nelson, entitled “Our Fighting Navy,” will also be screened.

MAJESTIC THEATRE

There is something new under the sun. “King Kong,” which commenced to-day, has provided it. “King Kong" lias more than fantasy, more than romance, more than brilliant novelty, more than blood-chilling thrills. It is a symbolic story of the age-old triumph of brains over brawn and of the power of Beauty over the beast. The story deals with the harrowing experiences of a party of motion picture people who visit a strange, remote island in quest of a legendary ape god. They not. only find the ape, “King Kong,’’ but find him ruler of the island —feared by Hie natives, who steal Fay Wray, heroine oi the adventure, to provide a sacrifice to the monster. The supreme ot “King Kong” begins when “King Kong” after having been captured, breaks loose and runs riot in New York. It is doubtful if imagination and scientific skill will ever again combine to produce a thrill equal to that of a 50ft. ape atop the highest skyscraper, battling, with only his dumb brute strength, a squadron of army bombing ’planes pelting him with machine-gun bullets. The cast includes beautiful Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reieher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson, Steve Cleniento and James Flavin. The supporting programme includes a lengthy musical comedy featurette entitled “So This is Harris,'” a riot of laughs, music and dancing, introducing Phil Harris, of KFI, Los Angeles. The evening session commences to-night at 7.30 o’clock to allow for a midnight matinee at 10 o’clock.