AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19372, 9 July 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

KING'S THEATRE • "SEA DEVILS": COAST GUARD THRILLER The 1935 Academy Award winner. Victor McLaglcn—for his performance in "The Informer" -is starred as a chief bo'sun's mate in the U.S. Const Guard in RKO-Radio's stirring drama, "Sea Devils." which began to-day at the King's Theatre. Sharing the honours with McLaglcn and Preston Foster in this thrilling vignette of an unsung but heroic branch of service is Ida Lupino, with Donald Woods heading the supporting cast. Seaman Foster, an adventurer, no sooner joins the crew of McLaglen's ship than trouble starts between the two. Boasting of Ids prowess with the weaker sex, Foster begins courting McLaglen's daughter 'lda Lupino). Foster is about the, last man in the service McLaglcn would choose as a son-in-law, but it happens that his daughter has a mind of her own. so McLaglcn initiates a bitter feud with the. sailor. Terrific combats between this pair vie with thrilling rescues from stormbattered ships. Using the United States Coast Guard cutter Tahoe and its crew, a perilous rescue of passengers from a burning vessel is effected, and later other lives are saved from a hurricane-grounded boat, in which full beach equipment, including surf boats, a Lvle gun, a breeches buoy and other apparatus, is brought into play in a revealing demonstration of life-saving technique

MAJESTIC THEATRE "MAO HOLIDAY" AND "CRIMSON CIRCLE" While a Chinese dragon writhes its way across the stage, blood drips from a theatre box in San Francisco's Chinatown, and thus murder finds its unique setting in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mystery thriller, "Mad Holiday," which opened at the Majestic Theatre to-day, with Ermund Lowe and Elissa Landi in the leading roles. The "movie within a movie" angle of the picture centres upon Edmund Lowe appearing as a Hollywood star who, sick at being typed in mystery parts, walks off the set and takes the fateful coastwise steamer voyage. Miss Landi, playing the author of the picture out of which he has "walked," also embarks on the steamer, determined to bring the actor back at any cost, even to devising a make-believe murder. When the hoaxed murder turns out unexpectedly to be a real one the complications begin. Edgar Wallace's "The Crimson Circle" is an intriguing thriller, in which the wits and resources of Scotland Yard are pitied against the mysterious head of a secret society of blackmailers. A strong cast of international players is headed by Hugh Wakefield, Alfred Drayton, Noah Beery, and 17-year-old June Duprez, whose performance has created a stir amongst the critics overseas. "Crimson Circle" is the associate feature which opened to-day at the Majestic. REGENT THEATRE "KOSF, MARIE" NOW SHOWING "Rose Marie," the film all Gisborne lias been impatiently awaiting, opened I to-day at the Regent Theatre with the singing stars of "Naughty Marietta," Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, in the leading roles. Under their magic spell the full beauty of "The Indian Love Call," "Rose Marie, I Love You," "Song of the Mounties" and other classics from the Herbert Stothart-Rudolf Priml score Jive again. Filmed almost, entirely out-of-doors, in the mountainlike" country of tlte Sierra Nevadas, the production is said to be a pictorial sensation. Glimmering lakes, towering peaks, dangerous passes, all the beauty of Nature serves as background for the romantic saga of the great North-west. One of the outstanding sequences is the totem pole Indian dance, the grotesque set mounted on a sandspit extending into a broad lake. Peopled by more than a thousand dancers, lavish in costume, with music thrillingly beautiful, it sets a new high note for effect photography and spectacular direction. A strong supporting cast: assists Miss MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in "Hose Marie," among them being James Slewart, as the criminal brother, Reginald Owen as the star's manager, Allan Jones, who scored so decisively in "A Night at. the Opera," George Regas, Robert Grcig, Una O'Connor and Lucien Little-field.

COUNTRY PICTURES BOBBY BREEN IN "LET'S SING | AGAIN" There is comedy and drama, melody and charm in the tale of a runaway orphan who attaches himself to a circus rouseabout in Bobby Breen's outstanding film "Let's Sing Again," which Inland Cinemas are presenting at Whatatut.u on Saturday, at Muriwai on Monday, at Manutuke on Tuesday, at Pnha on Wednesday, and at Kaitaratahi on Friday (instead of the usual Thursday). The film introduces a new child slar to the screen in eight-year-old Bobby Broen, whose sweet, bird-like voice is winning enthusiastic friends for him at every presentation of the film. When it comes to putting over a song, he does it in a most professional manner. The story has sufficient human interest and plenty of good music woven into it to make the picture good entertainment, Henry Armetta has a comedy role, and George Houston, a fine baritone, is given ample opportunity.