AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18761, 18 July 1935, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“BIOGRAPHY OF A BACHELOR GIRL’ ’ , ‘‘Biography of a Bacltelor Girl, now showing at the Majestic 1 heatre, is the story of a girl artist (Ann llarding) whu returns from the gay lile ol the Continent to the United Slates. Site is besieged on her arrival 'by newspaper reporters and feature writers, as well as by several old admirers. Among the many is the very businesslike ami bespectacled Richard Kurt. (Robert .Montgomery). editor of a weekly paper, who nas conceived the idea of purchasing the artist’s autobiography. Alter a long quest, lie manages to get her to listen to reason, cliielly because she has no money and is heavily in debt. Meanwhile Leander Nolan, a candidate for the Senatorship of a southern State, and the girl artist's lirst lover, appears on the scene, accompanied by his fiancee and her father. He is- determined to keep his name out of the biography, and varies this determination to .such an extent that the girl artist is forced, not, however, unwillingly, to lice with Kurt to the mountains. An. excellent programme is completed by news-reels, a travel featurette in technicolor, concerning life in Ireland, and a very outeit aining Charlie Chase comedy.

OPERA HOUSE

CONCLUSION OF “GUEST” PROGRAMME The double-feature “guest” programme, winch includes “Sea. Devils and "Fast Workers,” concludes at the Opera House to-night.

REGENT THEATRE

“CLIVE OF INDIA” Ronald Column's great historical drama "Clive of India’' concludes to-night. —To-morrow: ‘The Merry Widow’ — A screen play without a villain is "The Merry Widow,” Ernst Lubitseh's lilting musical romance based on the Franz I,char masterpiece, which starts with Maurice Chevalier anM .Jeanette MacDonald, at the Begetit Theatre to morrow. A gay Continental romance with joyous Viennese music and dell touches o! humor, the Mel ro-Gohl wynMayer production lias no ‘'heavy except a trick of fate for its complication. Songs that will never die and that have delighted the world for years, becoming ever increasingly popular, are hoard hi ibis film. No musical romance has ovoi achieved the same world-wide popularity as "The Merry Widow.” it lias been played in every country and every language. The jilting Viennese romance denis with a debonair captain ol the guard and a charming banker’s widow in the mythical shepherd’s kingdom ot Marslinvin. Site goes to Palis, and the ruler, afraid she will lake her money out of the country, sends the debonair captain, whose exploits among the lair sex have been the talk of tile palace, to woo her and bring her hack. Dramatic highlights in the story include the first whimsical meeting of Sonia and Danilo. when lie feeds her watchdog and gets into her castle garden; the cultural episode in which the king finds him Girtiny with the queen; his quarrel al Maxim’s with the Ambassador: Sonia’s departure for Paris and her advatituri: won Danilo at Maxim’s, the discovery of the plot at- the .Embassy; the king's plan to abdicate, the hilarious trial scene and the witty denouement.

KING’S THEATRE

“LET’S LIVE TO-NIGHT” Concluding to-night at the Kings Theatre is "Let’s Live To-night,” a light-hearted romantic comedy-drama eo starring Lilian Harvey and Jiilljo Carminuti. "Let’s Live To-night is a Columbia production directed by Victor SeliertzinKor, who recently made "One Night of Love,” starring Grace Moore, for tlie same organisation. Carininali enacts the role ot a charming niau-of-tlie-world who believes no one should take love seriously after his twenty-first birthday. He has difficulty in living up to this belief when he meets Miss Harvey. east as an attractive young, girl eager for romance. They meet by ebauCc ill the Casino at Monte Carlo, continue (heir acquaintance aboard Carminati’s yacht, and are reunited at the carnival "in Nice. Other plot complications enter, witli Cai ininati’s idealistic young brother, played by Hugh Williams, falling in love with Miss Harvey. To make matters worse, Tala, Birell, east as a sophisliealeil noblewoman, refuses to relinquish I .'iti’ll)i iin Li. —To-morrow: “Star of Midnight’’— Love and myslery form an intriguing combination in '‘Star of Midnight, 1!.K.0.-Radio's romantic drama, starring William Powell and Ginger Rogers, which starts at the King's Theatre tomorrow. when there will be four sessions. Telling a- strikingly different type of love story, in which Miss Rogers, fresh from triumphs in the musical “Roberta,'’ is the pursuer, and Powell the ostensibly wary quarry, the picture deals with a baftiing mystery in moderii New Yolk s pageant and glitter. A beautiful woman disappears, a newspaper columnist is killed under strange circumstances, and three different factions undertake the solution of the case, each with a separate motive. Powell and Miss Rogers team as a "Sherlock and Watson” combination in running down clues to (he mystery. The two still’s, long established among the screen’s foremost favorites, appear together for the first time. Although they have worked at the same studios many times and often have acted on adjoining slages. Powell and Miss Rogers were never cast logelher until 1LK.0.-Radio opened l the microphones for this intriguing myslery drama. The strong cast includes Ralph Morgan, Leslie Eeiilon. Paul Polly. (Jciie Lockhart. Russell Hoplon. Vivian Oakland, and J. Farrell MacDonald.

GISBORNE REPERTORY SOCIETY Tlic (lisliorne Repertory Society Inis )><■<■(i wise ou I lie occiisioii of its eighth perroriniinee in choosingi a piny which wili 1111< lot 1 1>1 idly suit the tastes nl all I heat re-goers, A. A. Milne Inis written many excellent plays. Inti of them all "Reiinila” has prnveil that if is much more snilahle lor ;i perl’ortnanee liollt from I In. point of view of staging elfeels anil of the dialogue than any of the others ami lias lieen so sneeesslnl that it lias lieen produced by most timtiteur societies. A well chosen cast. with Miss Klloii Millar as producer, consists of Misses (", Oman. (I. Bvke, histone and Godfrey, and (’anon flail, and Messrs. 11. .Vail and I!. MeNieol. and on the occasion of a rehearsal which was recently held in the Opera Tionso the committee was convinced that Tuesday night next will he the most successful in (he society’s career. Hooking is at Tattersail and Bnvlv’s.