AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19334, 26 May 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE '' EARTHWORM TRACTORS'' Joe E. Brown lias seldom caused as much merriment as he docs in the new Warner Pros picture. ".Earthworm Tractors," which is the present attraction at the Majestic. Theatre. Joe takes the role of Alexander Botts, super salesman and fictional character of William 1 Hazlett Upson's Saturday Evening Post stories. In this picture, the comedian with the excessively humorous mouth is cast as a cocksure pedlar of trivial gadgets. His fiancee and her father despise his occupation, and demand that, he sell something really wort!) .while. The confident Potts decides on "earthworm" tractors. How he undertakes a job of demonstrating one of the machines, and finally books a big order for his "earthworms" from the worst prospect in the district, provides Hie main entertainment, of the picture. The assurance with which Alexander Bolts goes about, his tasks is almost as amusing as the desperate but hilariously funny situations into which he gets bis machine and his prospective buyer.

REGENT THEATRE

COMEDY WITH MUSIC: "MAMA STEPS OUT" Laughter and music mingled at the Regent Theatre to-day. where Metro Goldwvn-.Mayer's new comedy, "Mama Steps 'i lul."' presented the new screen combination of Guy Kibbee and Alice Brack, 'these veterans of Stage and screen do a scintillating caricature of a familiar American type. Stanley Morner. vocalist, of "Great Ziegfeld," tippears in his first featured role, and singwell. Bettv Fulness lias the juvenile feminine lead. Others in the castwhose work stand out—include Gene Lockhart, Edward Norris. Gregory Gayc, Ivan Lebedeff, and Heather Thatcher. The film is based on the successful stago play, "Ada Beats the Drum," by John Kirk'palrick. Morner sings two songs that are popular "hits." "Burnt Fingers" and "Be Careful of .My Heart." and there is incidental music by an orchestra, led by Edward Norris. The story details the adventures of Leu Cup'pv, a typical American business man, who 'takes his wife. Ada, and their daughter, Leila, for a vacation in Europe. Ada suddenly acquires a desire for what she likes to consider is culture. As part of it she cultivates a trio ot would-be geniuses who fasten themselves to the Cuppy family "with parasitic determination.

The box plans for "Born ic> Dance." which commences next Friday, are rapidly filling.

KING'S THEATRE "MAKE WAY FOE A LADY": ROMANTIC COMEDY A high school girl's theories of romance, not for "herself but for her widowed father, comprise the novel theme of ".Make Way for a Lady.'" RKO Radio film co-starring Herbert .Marshall :nul Anne Slitrlny, which began to-day at the King's Theatre. With Marshall in the rule of a wealthy publisher whose happy home life is mysteriously upset when his idealistic daughter becomes convinced it is her duly to find him a wife and secretly makes her plans to that end,

"Make Way lor a Lady'' builds from one delightful comody situation In another. The film lias its setting in a suburban New Vork community. .Mistakenly assuming that Marshall is in love with a novelist whose hooks he publishes, Anne decides that the writer and her father must get married and she does hoi" best In bring the two together on every occasion. Unfortunately for the success of her scheme. Marshall does not care for the novelist and cannot understand Anne's sudden devotion to her. Bewildered, he avoids the woman and devotes himself to Anne's school teacher, a fact of which his daughter is blissfully unaware. Anne's final horrified realisation of the Iruih precipitates Hie climax of the highly amusing film. —Film of Coronation: Saturday—

A complete film of the Coronation service and processions in Loudon will lie screened at the King's Theatre on Saturday, in conjunction with George A Hiss in "His Lordship,-"

Invitation holders nrc reminded that the Poverty Bay Basketball Association's dance, which was to have been held last month, will be held now on Tuesday, June 1,