AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE “KEEP YOUR SEATS PLEASE” AND “DOWN THE STRETCH" Alt who love a good, wholesome laugh will delight in George Formbys latest production, “Keep Your Seats Please,” co-starring Florence Desmond, which is the main current film at the Majestic Theatre. Overseas reports credit Keep Your Seats Please” with being the funniest farce comedy ot the season, even funnier than "No Limit,” the previous Formby-Desmond laughter-riot. It depicts the bizarre adventures of George Withers in search of 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 il can be said that the Sport of Kings levels humanity more than any other. In “Down the Stretch," the associate feature at the Majestic, the truth of this is brought out remarkably in the story of a fine youngster who is under a cloud. Rumours grow on race tracks as well as in boudoirs, and a story that has got about of bis father having pulled a race lias come to be so believed that the boy, to whom the breath of life is the scene of the sport that made his father 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.

REGENT THEATRE “ROSE MARIE” LAST TWO DAYS “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 flic Mountios” and other classics from the Herbert Stothart-Rudolf Frimi score live again. Filmed almost entirely out-of-doors, in the mountain-like country of the Sierra Ncvadas, the production is a pictorial sensation. Glimmering lakes, towering 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 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. "Rose Marie" is playing an extended season until to-morrow.

—“lt Isn’t Done”: Australian Comedy, Coining- Friday—

Box plans are now open for the great Australian comedy, “It isn’t Done," starring the popular J. C. Williamson comedian Cecil Kellaway, which commences next Friday. In the cast is Bobbie Hunt, better known in Gisborne as Miss Eileen Collins. She has the role of Lady Denvee.

KING’S THEATRE “SWING TIME”: ROGERS-ASTAIRE FILM Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire are seen to advantage in “Swing Time,” which is the principal attraction at the King’s Theatre. An entertaining programme of shorter features also is being screened. The story of “Swing Time” is a delicate pattern of homour, music and romance. Fred. Astaire arrives in New York as an impecunious young man, whose consuming ambition is to make enough money to return to his home town and marry his fiancee. He meets Ginger Rogers, a charming dancing teacher —too charming in fact—and it is then that the fun begins. —Friday: “The Great Barrier” —

A dramatic story of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railroad is unfolded in “The Great Barrier." which will he the main attraction at the King’s Theatre on Friday. Leading roles in this Gaumont-British production are portrayed by Richard Arlen and J. Farrell MacDonald. Antoinette Collier and Lilli Palmer supply the feminine interest ol the film. Many of the most spectacular scenes of “The Great Barrier" wore actually filmed in the Canadian Rockies. The story reaches a dramatic climax when the success or failure of the railroad depends on the discovery of a pass in the Rockies, and after' several thrilling episodes the film is brought, to a satisfactory <‘Ottelusion.

DANCE RECITAL The dance recital of Miss Tun Smith's pupils and concert party will be held this evening in the Opera House. The programme Will include modern ballet,, popular songs, aerobatic dancing, musical comedy, American tap and ballroom rhythm ami style. Mrs. Menzies’ orchestra also will be in attendance.