AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19123, 18 September 1936, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

I MAJESTIC THEATRE

iIR LINER DRAMA, AND COMEDY

! “Thirteen, Hours By Air,’ which ijegins.a season at the Majestic Theatre to-day, is after the style of the popular “Friday tho Thirteenth” in its general idea. The chief difference is that the people the story is about am travellers in an aeroplane, instead ot passengers in a bus, and in working things out. tho authors have allowed more action than there was in the other film. Only about 12 persons are vitally concerned, and as nearly everything that matters happens either inside the aeroplane or right alongside it, _ the effect has been to make the action highly concentrated and, of course, very easy to follow. The story goes into details which would seem to mark it as the product of a more than usually vivid imagination. Tho most important character is Fied Mac Murray, chief pilot of a. large airways company. Ilis passeiir gers are a jewel thief, -a detective, a girl who says she is prominent socially and is suspected of being prominent in America’s underworld, a nine-year-old heir to a fortune and his nursemaid, and another man. The girl who says she is prominent socially lias a very goodreason for wanting to be in Sari Francisco by a certain time, and the “other inan” has a very good reason for wishing her arrival to be delayed. They - both make their wishes known fo the pilot,, but another agent, the weather, finally decides whose wishes are to be grantedThe aeroplane is forced down by a Snowstorm iri lonely mountainous country, and it is there that the-action moves at its fastest. On the same programme is a comedy, “Nobody s Fool,” featuring Edward EverotHorton.

KING'S THEATRE

‘POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL”

Shirley Temple is surrounded .by « ■veritable gallery of Hollywood’s brightest jitars, including Alice Faye, Gloria' Biuart, Jack Haley, and-■ Michael Whalen, in ;“Poqr Little Rich ,Girl,” which comjjuenood at the King’s 'theatre to-day. iAdd to the star arid the cast a modern, Istimnev romantic story ’arid five’ bubbling new song “hits'; by' Alack Gordon and Harry Revel, and you have a few of the reasons why “The Poor Little Rich (Girl” is being so highly spoken oi. Shirley, of course,-plays the title role._ She is" seen as the daughter of Michael ;Whalen, a wealthy young business man |who is far too occupied.making money to 'devote much time,to his daughter., Shirley persuades her daddy that- she should i be sent to hoarding school where she can ! associate and play with other little children. Whalen agrees, but instead of attending-to thee task 1 himself, delegates Sara 1 laden to accompany her to the school. Waiting for.the train, Shirley wanders off, and the ‘busy sidewalks of New York luve her on. to adventure, and , from then oil her adventures really start: The balance of the programme is as entertaining sis'Abe main feature. REGENT THEATRE “COLLEEN” “Colleen,” a musical comedy, is now at the Regent Theatre. The leading players are Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, while the comedy is furnished m full measure by two first-class comedians Hugh Herbert and Jack Oakie, assisted by Joan Blondell .and Marie Wilson. A newcomer, ro the screen is Paul Draper, a brilliant stage dancer, whose tap dancing is superb. Ruby Keeler is also a tine tap dancer, and an interpretative dance—a, love lyric without words—-which the pair do together, is one of tho finest in the film. Other spectacular scenes include, a dress parade in which the mannequins dance in street costumes, tennis frocks and evening dresses,' and a series of dances staged in the ballroom of a giant ocean liner. The story of "Colleen” concerns the. eccentricities of a wealthy business man, played by Hugh Herbert, who assists the ambitions of a girl chocolate dipper by installing her as the manageress ,of a millinery shop. This rich and ffir.tatious gentleman inis a seriousminded young nephew (Dick Powell), who is manager of the estate, and falls in. love with the efficient secretary of the shop. Jack Oakie and Joan Blondell portray an unscrupulous but highly humorous couple who try to get all the. money they can from the eccentric business man. Louisa Fazenda plays the part of the. vy-ifo who is continually Upset, by her husband's” eccentricities.