AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19364, 30 June 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE “A WOMAN ALONE” AND “TWOFISTED GENTLEMAN” Anna Sten, the beautiful Russian player who proved such a success in “Nana” and “The Wedding Night,” beads the cast of the main attraction at the Majestic Theatre, “A Woman Alone,” with Henry Wilcoxon, star of “The Crusaders,” which shows what a fine dramatic actress she really is. The story gives hei; plenty of opportunities to display her histrionic ability, and, playing the part of a Russian peasant girl who falls in love with an officer in the Imperial Guard, she dominates the picture. The second attraction on this programme will be a film entitled “Two-Fisted Gentleman," the story of Mickey Blako (Jimmy Dunn), who has everything necessary to a great fighter but ring sense. It is his lovely wife, Ginger, played by Miss Clayworth, who provides the brains that bring Mickey to the top. It is after she has guided her husband to his high position in the ring world that he meets June Prentice, a wealthy society debutante, and falls for her. Convinced that June represents all that he has wanted. Mickey eventually quarrels with his wife, and they separate. Without Ginger’s ring advice, Mickey fights often and loses. He is game, but he does not use his head. He sinks lower in the fight game until he is back fighting preliminaries. REGENT THEATRE “THREE SMART GIRLS” CONTINUES TILL THURSDAY With all (he boisterousness and freshness of youth “Three Smart Girls," now at the Regent Theatre, provides some novel and humorous situations in its original and comical story. Deanna Durbin, Universal s new discovery, is a distinct, success in the leading role, her rich singing being outstandingly remarkable for a 14-year-old girl, while her frank and impetuous manner delights all. A brilliant cast includes Binnie Barnes, Alice Brady, Charles Winninger, John King, Ray’ Milland, Nan Grey, and Barbara Read. —Friday: “Fire Over England”— The plans are now open for Alexander Korda's magnificent production of "Fire Over England,” which commences next Friday. This production had the honour of winning the 1937 League of Nations award. Another prize-winner will be Walt Disney’s "The Country Cousin,” which won the Academy award for the best cartoon of the year. The cast of “Fire Over England" comprises such celebrities as Flora Robson, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks, Vivian Leigh and Tamara Desni. A leading overseas critic has described the film as follows: “England has never made a better historical romance than Ibis, and America has produced few to equal it. Vast and spectacular in scope, sweeping in action, and more true to fact than is customary, it is still human and intimate entertainment in its presentation of an appealing lovestory . • • KING’S THEATRE *“WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE": THRILLING FILM An exceptionally thrilling film, “We Who Arc About to Die,” is the main attraction on the current programme at the King's Theatre, The lihn, which is an R.K.O. Radio Pictures production, is one of the most dramatic convict stories ever brought to the screen. The story concerns the misfortune of a young aviation engineer, played by John Beal, who is kidnapped by "gangsters” who rob the factory where he works, shoot the cashier, and in their (light kill a child. By means of false evidence, which inflames public opinion against him, the young engineer is tried, convicted and sentenced to death for these crimes. —Friday: “On the Avenue"— One way of getting something different in the way of musical screen fare is the procedure Twentieth Century-Fox adopted on its new Irving Berlin musical, "On the Avenue,” starring Dick Powell and Madeleine Carroll, which will open on Friday at the King’s Theatre. Deciding against the too-familiar backstage musical, they appropriately dubbed “On the Avenue” a “frontstage” musical, inasmuch as a good deal of the action emanates from the audience of this show-within-a-show.

EX-SERVICEMEN’S REUNION WELLINGTON REGIMENT N.Z.E.F. The annual reunion of the Gisborne and district association of Wellington Infantry Regiment, N.Z.E.F., is to be held in the Masonic Hall, Childers road, Gisborne, on Saturday evening. Preparations for the entertainment of a big muster have been made by the committee, which extends a cordial invitation to all who saw service with the regiment during the Great War. A number of well-known members of the regiment who attended this year’s reunion of the regiment in Palmerston North haW intimated their intention of being present on Saturday evening. These visitors are travelling from as far south as Wellington and a warm “Digger” welcome is to be accorded them. Colonel R. F. Gambrill is (o preside during the evening’s activities, the zero hour of which is 8 p.m.