AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19374, 12 July 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE “ROSE SiAKIK" CREATES A NEW RECORD “Rose. Marie." has broken all existing week-end records at the Regent Theatre with 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 Frinii score live again. Filmed almost entirely out-of-doors, in the mountain-like country of the Sierra Nevadas. the production is a pictorial sensation. Glimmering lakes, lowering peaks, dangerous passes, all the beauty of Nature serves as background for the romantic saga of the great Northwest. One of the outstanding sequences is the totem pole Indian dance, the grotesque set mounted on a sandspit extending into a broad take. Peopled by more than a thousand dancers, lavish in costume, with music thrillingly beautiful, if sots a new high note for effect photography and spectacular direction. “Rose Marie is playing an extended season untd Thursday. —“lt Isn't Done": Australian Comedy. Coming Friday— Box plans are now open for the great Australian comedy, “It isn t Done," starring the popular .). C. Williamson comedian Cecil Kellaway. which commences next Friday. In the east is Bobbie Hunt, better knownJn Gisborne ns Miss Eileen Collins. She has the role of Lady Denver.

KING’S THEATRE “SEA DEVILS": EAST NIGHT The programme concluding to-night at the King's Theatre comprises one lull-length picture, “Sea Devils." and numerous interesting “shorts. Victor McLaglen and Preston Foster have the major roles in "Sea Devils and appear as members of the crew ot a coastguard cutter on patrol duty oil the United Stales of America. Some thrilling scenes of the work of the patrol, including a rescue at sea and the blowing up of an iceberg, arcshown. Ada Lnpino supplies romantic interest and Donald Woods also is in I lie east. —To morrow: Return Season of Swing Time” — A return season ol the popului film, "Swing Time," will start to-mor-row at the Kings I heatrv. It is^. toother grand picture featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and had a splendid reception on its lust screening in Gisborne. “The Gay Divorcee." “Follow the Fleet. and “Top Hat" are considered to be inferior to "Swing Time, which attains a very high standard of entertainment with a strong thread of romance and a quality of sound humour.

MAJESTIC THEATRE DOUBLE BILE: LAST NIGHT Metro-Goldwvn's mystery comedy. “Mad Holidav." and "The Crimson Circle." by Edgar Wallace, the popular current programme at the Majestic Theatre, will be screened finally today. —To-morrow: "Keep Your Seals Please” it “Down the Stretch” All who love a good, wholesome laugh will delight in George l-ormbys latest production, "Keep Your Seats Please," co-starring Florence Desmond. which will open at the Majestic Theatre to-morrow. Overseas reports credit "Keep Your Seats Please with being the funniest farce comedy of the season, even funnier than "No Limit,” the previous Formby-Desmond laughter-riot. It depicts the bi/ane adventures of George Withers, in search ol a fortune that a maiden aunt has left hidden in one of a set of chairs. There is nothing like a race crowd for engendering the good fellowship of man, and it can be said that the Sport of Kings levels humanity more than any other. In “Down the Stretch,” also opening to-morrow at the Majestic, the truth of this is brought out remarkably in the story of a line youngster who is under a cloud. Rumours grow on race tracks its well as in boudoirs, and a story that has got about of his father having pulled a race lots come to be so believed that the boy, to whom the breath of life is the scene of the sport that made his lather famous before rumour broke his career, cannot get a job even near any stable. It is in Kentucky that he finds his chance through the faith in him of a beautiful woman owner, and in that land of blue grass and thoroughbreds, he ends by showing himself well worthy of the trust reposed in him.

Attention is called to an advertisement in to-night s issue announcing a change in tiro date ol the Kia Ora Bowling and Tennis Clubs dance, the entertainment will be held itire Mnkaraka-Matawhcro Hall on Thursday, July 15.