AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18879, 3 December 1935, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

KING'S THEATRE GRACE MOORE IN TINE ROLE ll' there was nothing to -'Love Mo l-'oic \c t'' but the singing oi' Grace Monro, tin- picture would In; gladly recommended to every mortal Hip world over. But Columbia Pictures has given the star a fine background and a dramatic story that keeps one thrilled. "Love .Me Forever" presents a dramatic and romantic story, tense and filled with suspense, while '•■One Xigbt of Love," Miss Moore's first picture, presented merely romance. Emphasised still more in "Love Me Forever" than in "One Night of Love" is the beautiful music. The swiftly-moving story presents the singing star as a young social girl who, like so many of her class, loses her money when the depression swallows her fortune. She is offered a job by a music-loving gambler and cafe owner. she accepts, and when the gambler Muds that he is in love with his new singer, he stakes all in bringing her In the top of the profession. Through his aid she eventuany lands on the. Met ropo'iuun Opera stage, where she is tin immediate success. The gambler learns too late, however, that the lovely operatic: star is in love with another man. He becomes a broken man. Exciting drama brings the story to a rousing climax. It is tin inspired ending, with Miss Moore's rendition of "Tiny Hands" in "La Boheme" exciting Itl audiences a desire to shout "Bravo!" to the shadows of a motion picture. Leo Camllo enacts the difficult colo of the gambler. Michael Bartlett, tenor. has a pleasing personality and tin excellent voice.' lie should go far Oil the screen. Koherl Allen perform.-

capably as the other member of ill romantic triangle.

REGENT THEATRE "DRAKE OF ENGLAND"

An historical romance of Elizabethan England, with plenty of stirring action and sufficient adherence to lad to be convincing, "Drake of England." an English production, commences at the Recent, 10-day. The picture is mainly concerned with the career of Brake, whose piratical prowess against the Spaniards attracted the admiring attention of Queen Elizabeth. Political intrigue and romance supply subsidiary plots, although they are hardly necessary among the wealth of pageantry and battles on the sett. The story opens

with Drake's departure from Plymouth on that famous voyage which made him the bitter and lifelong enemy of .Spain, ilis capture of \oinbre Dies, his return to England with vast treasure, ami bis reception by Queen Elizabeth, who knighted him instead of punishing him as the Spaniards demanded, are episodes ,ill realistically reproduced. But it is the tremendous and apparently reckless battle with 'he Anna.la which forms the climax. Matlieson bang, with hi--commanding presence, makes a glamorous figure of the swaggering and robust Brake, while Athene Sevier, as Queen Elizabeth, gives a clever performance. Smaller parts are played by -lane Baxter. the prettv. hero-worshipping Elizabeth Sydenham', and Ben Webster, the courtlv Lord BurghJev.

MAJESTIC THEATRE

"DRAGON MURDER CASE" An interesting murder-mystery, tin "Dragon Murder Case." opened a! the .Majestic Theatre to-day. The first murder of the series takes place al the Dragon Pool on the. vast i.state of a iiiuil i-niilliouairc sciontisl win re guests have gathered for a week end party. At an evening bathiu" party one 'of the guests nnd the fianci of the .sister of the scientist, n part played by Oeorge Meeker, dives into Ihe natural pool of water and fails Ic come up. Police tire secretly notified, which brings io the scene Sergt. Heath. District Attorney Markham. and Philo \';ince. The pool is drained, but 11,ere is no trace of the missing man. although there is seemingly no way Ibe body could have been washed out. fVii the' bottom of the pool are great tracks as though made by the talons of ;i prehistoric monster. To add to the eerie situation, the half-demented mothei of the scientist tells of a tradition of a dragon occupying the pool, sucking down it- victims and then Hying oil lo point secret lair with the body. A new Philu Vance comes 10 the screen in the person of Warren William znd he carries out the part of the polished and somewhat supercilious detective with an easy fortitude. Sergt. Heath is again Eugeni Pal'ielle and Robert McVVade has his old role of District Attorney .Markham. Bight suspects are involved in the trim* including Robert I'.arral. the scientist, Margaret Lindsay, bis sister, Helen Lowell, bis mother, and four of the guests. Lvle Talbot, Dorothy Tree, fleorge K. ' Stone, and William Davidson, as well as the butler, Arthur Ayles worth.

OPERA HOUSE "NO MORE LADIES" TRANSFERRED FROM REGENT "No More Ladies" is proving so popular that arrangements have been made to extend the season at the Opera House for a further three days. This film, which will be screened at the cwi'.ing sessions only, casts .loan Crawford as a beautiful young ••modern" nnd Robert Montgomery as n charming l.olharia. set against lavish New York and Westchester County backgrounds. Ciosely following the play in theme, ii is i penetrating study, told with irresistible humor.' of the problems of a 1935 wife who suspects her husband of unfaithfulness. Along with the two i,nun sliiis is i line array of talent implicit in such featured players as Charlie Itutrglos, in another of his clever drunken roles. Franchol Tone. Kdnn May Oliver, (i i'l Patrick and licgiunld Dci'iuv. cast, spirited and very funny, (be story build, rapidly to a climax of pure humor m a parly which will go down in screen history sis one of the fuiufies| parlies ■ ver Mined.