AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19382, 21 July 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE

"TOLL OF THE ROAIV AND "LIMEHOUSE BLUES"

One of the greatest menaces of. the modern world is the realistic theme of "Toll of the Road," to be the main feature on the double bill now being screened at the Majestic Theatre. In view of the expressed determination Of the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. H. Semple. to curb the "road hog," the drunken driver, and the hit-and-run driver, this film is doubly interesting, and it proves a grim arid vivid revelation of the threat of death on the highways. Drama, with a blending of romance and comedy, are the chief ingredients of the picture, and it brings a promise of excellent all-round entertainment. For the reason thai the motor car plays so important a part in daily life in every country, intense realism is a characteristic of the production. The supporting attraction, "Limehouse Blues," features George Raft, who has two leading ladies. Anna May Wong, a Chinese beauty, and youthful Jean Parker. Anna May Wong appears as a beautiful Oriental sing-song girl, a dancer in the cafe which Raft maintains in Limehouse to cover his nefarious smuggling and river-pirate activities. Because he is wily and ruthless. Raft is able to consistently avoid the London police, who are hot on his trail, and to get the best of his smuggling rivals. REGENT THEATRE M.G.M.'S THRILL-DRAMA. "MAN OF THE PEOPLE" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's thrilling and exciting drama, "Man of the People," will be screened at the Regent Theatre again to-day and to-morrow. The stars are Joseph Callcia, Florence Pice and Ted Ilealy. From behind the scenes of a crown prosecutor's ollice comes a fighting man who gambled love and challenged the underworld to uncover one of the most gigantic swindles of our time. The story is a revelation of American polities. Grady, the founder of a social club "arranges" court cases so that they come out on the right side, and generally rules like a little king. He wants the young lawyer, .lack Moreno, in his organisation, bul Moreno is 100 honest for the work, he is given to do, and there comes a clash, in the llfthl between Moreno and Grady, the resource and ingenuity nf the young lawyer, and Ins romance with a rich girl thai late throws his way, are the dramatic interest of this unusual film. —Friday: Grace Moore's "When Von'ic in Love"— Plans are now open for preliminary bookings for the whole of the sixday season of "When You're in Love," starring Grace Moore and Cary Grant, which commences at the Regent Theatre next. Friday. The- tremendous popularity of this musical comedy endorses the opinions of overseas critics that it is definitely the most delightful Grace Moore film since "One of Love." KING'S THEATRE "WHEN'S YOUR BIRTHDAY?" The talent of Joe E. Brown was never better exemplified than in: "When's Your Birthday?" the David L. Loew production which is being presented at the King's Theatre. This hilarious picture has the novel background of astrology. After a series of lessons intended to lit him for a career as an astrologer, Brown is seen as a clumsy bus boy in a cafe where he has the good fortune, by counting the planets, to predict for a gambler the outcome of a race. Frightened, however, he drops from sight, to work in a fortune-telling concession. Finally located by the gambler, the three members of the partnershipBrown, the barker and a girl—are all engaged by the sporting man as his private- prognosficators of athletic events. A switch in horoscopes brings about a tragic situation. —Friday: "Head Over Heels"— "Head Over Heels," Jessie Matthews' brightest musical for GaumonlBritish, which starts at the King's Theatre on Friday, introduces four new laces to the screen, and between Jessie and these people occur some of the most amusing scenes in the film. There are her two leading men, Robert Flcmyng from Dublin, and Louis Borrell, who is Dutch. Then there is Romnoy Brent, a little better known, and Edward Cooper who is very well-known on the English music-halls.