AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19023, 25 May 1936, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

KING'S THEATRE "PEG OF OLD DRURY" The east of the British and Dominions historical production, "Peg of Old Drury. ' starring the popular romantic team of Anna Xeagle and Sic Ceclric llardwicke. leads something like, a guide-book to the National Portrait Gallery. Dr. Johnson and the inseparable Boswell. William Pitt the. Elder, the poet, Pope. Sir Joshua Reynold*., Oliver Goldsmith, and. of course, the famous stage tigures. Peg Wellington and David Ga nick --on whose celebrated love affair the film is based—are all l here. The iilm. indeed. gives a generous slice of the stago and literary life of tin' mid-eighteenth century—that most glamorous period of British social history, when Garrick and gay, affable Peg were making the Drury Lane stage the focus of fashionable attention, when Dr. Johnson was delighting the gossiping company of the Cheshire Cheese with bis bluff witticisms, and when allnight parties were the rage at Vauxhall Gardens. Many brilliant stage and screen figures make the cast of "'Beg of Old Drury" one of the most distinguished ever assembled for a British film. This programme ends to-morrow night.

Cn Wednesday and Thursday "Show I'liem No Mercv" will be screened.

REGENT THEATRE "LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEEOY" "Little Lord Fauntlcroy" is now in its third day at the Regent Theatre. The little American boy who goes to England, then; to live in a forbidding old castle with his gruff and hard-hearted grandfather (0. Aubrey jSmith) is presented in more modern trappings than in the book, but his part is none the less attractive for that. Freddie Bartholomew has the pari, and he improves even upon his role in "Anne Karenina' and "David Copperlield." Dolores Costello makes a welcome return to the scene as "Dearest,'" the lad's mother, separated from her boy by the resentment of the grandfather, in the course of the story the old man's heart is softened, and 'finally the mother joins her loved one. to live in the castle which is her proper home. (JlKi O'Connor and .Mickey Booney. another talented juvenile player, are others in the cast. —"Ah Wilderness!' '— Plans are now open for "Ah "Wilderness" which commences next Wednesday. Among the supporting films is one of' the sailing on her trials of the R.M.S. Queen -Mary. MAJESTIC THEATRE "MILLIONS IN THE AIR" AND "IT'S A GREAT LIFE": TOMORROW ".Millions in the Air." a comedyromance intended as a gentle jibe at American amateur radio programmes, will begin a season at the Majestic Theatre to-morrow. The film is the first full-length feature to be devoted to such a theme, and till the comedy and dramatic possibilities of this new radio entertainment medium are brought into the story. Willie Howard, long prominent as a' Broadway comedian.' takes the part of an Italian vegetable peddler. He has been seeking for 20 years for someone to appreciate bis rendition of "lligoletto," and in the person of Catherine Doucet, a middle-aged dowager who also labours under the impression (hat she can smgi, he finds a kindred spirit. The two of I hem make an effort at convincing their studio audience and furnish much of the exhilarating comedy in the ■ picture. Harry Semels is the Greek Houdini bearing the prepossessing name of Nikolas T'opadopolis. who undertakes to free himself after being soundly roped and chained, while Benny Baker, the comedian with the boyish countenance, serves as his manager. ' Also screening will be "It's a Great Life." a tale of the lumber camps of America, with Joe Morrison and Chic Sale. "The Woman in lied" and "Grand Exit" conclude to-night.