AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 7 April 1934, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE ALICE BRADY IN “SHOULD LADIES BEHAVE?’’ Nothing so smart, so clever, as ■‘Should Ladies Behave?” lias been seen in Gisnonie for many a long day. "When Ladies Meet” was a howling uecess, and tor that reason picture-goers should relish another attraction of the same type—entertainment that s gay, that’s sJv, that’s preciously rare. A much-divorced philandress, an impressionable young girl looking for experience, a siily, simpering wife, a sauva Continental lover and a. suspicious Ims band, under one roof for a hectic weekend, provide the characters and venue of the hilarious and sophisticated situations that make up the pJot of “Should Ladies Behave?” now showing at the Regent. In its juxtaposition of mixed romances, .oves, hates and jealousies, the picture is funny enough, and with such players as Lionel Barrymore, Alice Brady, Conway Tearle, Katharine Alexander, Mary Carlisle and William Jannev filling the leading roles the various incidents are sure to he played to the full. Everybody loves the wrong person in this scintillating plot. Alice Brady is Barrymore’s wife, a. romantic, lovestarved dreamer who mistakes C’omvay for an eld ‘‘flame.’’ Barrymore, f us the vitriolic father, interested only in lus daughter’s happiness and absolutely convinced that all the rest are. idiots,-gives another of his sharp, penetrating portrayals. As for ..Miss Brady, with her good iutr-ntioned blunders, outlandisu gestures and gushing superlatives, it is no longer necessary, now that “When Ladies Meet” has been shown here, to report that she is one of the most entertaining players of the screen. The ;ettiugs in "Should Ladies Behave? ’ are unusually artistic, and the whole production lias been handled with expert craftsmanship and a discriminating finish. The supports include Laurel and Hardy in “Twice Two,” “Culm,” a travelogue and a Cincsound News.

MAJESTIC THEATRE “RADIO PARADE” AND “UNKNOWN VALLEY” The atmosphere of the London music .inn is broil-gilt to tlie Majestic Theatre .o-day by “Radio Parade.” The opportunity to see this once famous typo of amusement conies far too infrequently, and a successful season is assured. Tlie dim presents in the form of radio broadcast a representative assembly of 5U English stage, screen and_radio artists, some of whom are world-lamous. One comes away after seeing this brilliant medley of vaudeville feeling that tlie artists are seen in the ilesh and not on the screeu. There is no plot to the Him, the only link between the "turns” being a summons to broadcast by Christopher Stone, the announcer, and the fun oi Claude Hulbert and Gus McNaugliton, die comedy clowns, who are trying to “steal” material from the performances lor their "big act.” Roy Fox’s wellknown band opens and closes the performance, and occasionally accompanies the artists, and their music is full of pep and rhythm. One of the highlights of an entertainment which caters for all tastes, with comedy the predominant note, is Florence Desmond. When tlie scene is switched in the middle of the programme to an American cafe, she gives her impersonations of noted screen artists with remarkable faithfulness, not only in talking and singing, but in acting. Her imitations of Greta Garbo, Tallulah Bankhead, and Grade Fields are excellent. The Houston Sisters, delightfully young and fascinating, are also outstanding and their ventriloquism item is a. gem. Then there is "Stainless Stephen,” a prince of railway porters, Elsie Carlisle, the Carlyle Cousins, Reginald Gardner, imitating characteristic noises of motor cars, Flotsam and Jetsam, with remarkable deep notes in song, and in contrast Stanelli and Edgar, freak fiddlers, and Mario Lorenzo, distinguished harpist. The second long feature is “Unknown Valley,” starring Buck Jones. Tlie eleventh chapter of 'The Phantom of the Air” will he ■crooned on Saturday only.

KING’S THEATRE “BERKELEY SQUARE” LESLIE HOWARD FEATURED Awaited as an event of cinematic importance, Fox Film’s production of ‘Berkeley Square” opened to-day at the King’s Theatre for an engagement of three days. This picture, tlie fourth independent effort by Jesse L. Husky, has oeeir produced on an elaborate scale, somewhat similar to "Cavalcade./ The picture, was directed by Frank Lloyd, maker of "Cavalcade,” and boasts a notable cast headed by Leslie Howard and Heather Angel. “Berkeley Square,” which played twice in London and for eight months on Broadway as a, play is unusual in theme. The story concerns itself with a man of the present who believes the past still exists. His desire to take himself back 150 years becomes so great that he forgets the present and finds himself living in the eighteenth century. As a man of tlie present living in tlie past, Leslie Howard finds he has many difficult problems to solve, the most important of which is his love for Heather Angel, The mutual attraction of these two people, each from a different' era, gives "Berkeley Square’* the unusual touch. Leslie, Howard who has a difficult role, to portray, gives a.ll inspired performance that outdoes any of his former roles. Heather Angel who is seen opposite Howard plays her most important role to date. The remaining members of the cast include Valerie Taylor,

Irene Browne, <)lat Hylton, Beryl Mercer, Colin Keith-Joiinston, Alan Mowbray, Juliette Compton, Betty Lawford. Ferdinand Gottsclialk, Samuel Hinds, and David Torrence. Of the £10.090 worth of Oriental rugs used in the production of "Berkeley Square,” more than half were obtained from tlm palatial Fifth Avenue home of the Vanderbilts. The studio purchased these at, the time when the ancestral Cornelius Vanderbilt home in Yew York was being dismantled to make room for a. modern office building. Among tlie rugs used in this picture is a Golden Ispahan valued at £4OOO. This ancient work of art took nearly 70 years to weave, with a family of four working most of the time. Rugs are not- tlie only antiques used in the production. True Georgian furniture of the post-Revolu-tionary period graces all of the interior sets of the film. One outstanding piece is a Chippendale ribbon hack settee —a genuine relic of the time when furniture making was a fine art. In addition to the main picture there is a finearray of supports.