AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19584, 16 March 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE “DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND” & "WEST BOUND LIMITED” Two engrossing, thrill-packed 'natures are at the Majestic. “Devil’s Playground,” starring Richard Dix, Chester Morris and Dolores Del Rio, depicts the thrills and romance of the men who brave the dangers of the deep in submarines. The exciting incidents of a railroad drama are contained in the second feature. “West Bound Limited.”

—Friday: Irene Dunne in “High, Wide and Handsome”—

In raising Ihe standard of the Majestic the management has arranged that it shall share in the big productions that are available for Gisborne. "High, Wide and Handsome" has been unanimously acclaimed by the critics as one of the outstanding attractions of the year. It will commence next Friday. “The simplest way to describe ‘High, Wide and Handsome’ is to say that it is magnificent entertainment," wrote one critic.

“In it you will find practically all the ingredients that go to make up the sort of film that one can enjoy from beginning to end. There is melodrama of the most robust kind —and plenty of it: there is romance to satisfy the most romantically inclined, and there is a musical score by Jerome Kern that is not only gay and tuneful but that is also definitely of the period in which the story is set . . . Owing to the length of the programme, the evening session will commence at 7.30 o’clock. KING’S THEATRE “THE HURRICANE" Spectacular scenes and an appealing story are features of the Samuel Goldwvn production, “The Hurricane,” which will continue its season to-day at the King’s Theatre. The cast is headed by the new screen player, Jon Hall, who is seen as a native of the island of Manukura. and Dorothy Lamour, who takes the role bf his wife. Other prominent players are C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Astor and Raymond Massey. The picture is excellently produced and is brought to a thrilling climax when a storm sweeps the island. The supporting programme is headed bv a “March of Time,” No. 2. In RKO Radio’s “Stage Door," costarring Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers and Adolphe Menjou, and which starts at the King’s Theatre on Friday, Miss Hepburn is cast as a high-strung, stage-struck heiress who hurdles all obstacles in her determined effort to achieve success on Broadway, while Miss Rogers plays the part of a vivacious night club entertainer who shares the heartaches and joys of a madcap existence. Another feature on the programme will be Walt Disney's "Pluto's Quintuplets.”

REGENT THEATRE “MY DEAR MISS ALDRICH”: CLEVER COMEDY The witticisms of the inimitable comedienne Edna May Oliver and the cleverly contrived hilarious situations I hat followed one after the other kept the big audience at the Regent in roars of laughter last night. It is all fun from start to finish—and will keep you in screams of laughter as each hilarious situation follows the other, in Metro GoldwynMayer's brilliantly clever comedy "My Dear Miss Aldrich.” It is the same type of picture as “Libelled Lady,” 'My Man Godfrey" and "The Thin Man” and the frolicsome threesome, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan and Walter Pidgeon, excel themselves in the presentation of Herman J. Maukiewicz's clever play. Maureen O'Sullivan, that charming Irish girl who is about to co-star with Robert Taylor ijft England in "A Yank at Oxford," plays the owner of a newspaper with Walter Pidgeon, the Broadway star, as the managing editor. ,1. Farrell MacDonald, veteran character star, is the city editor, with ready wit and keen understanding. Others in the cast include Rita Johnson, Roger Converse, Brent Sargent, Charles Waldron, Guinn Williams and Paul Harvey. It was evident that the little Irish star and her colleague, Walter Pidgeon, amply merit the honours which have been accorded them by the studio. An excellent array of featurettos include a Granlland Rice Sportlight, “Skiing is Believing,” a musical variety, “Alpine Cabaret," “Stranger Than Fiction," and the Regent News Service. The season closes to-morrow. —“Another Dawn” —Special— Errol Flynn, the gallant idol of the screen, appears on Friday next at the Regent in a drama of strong appeal, with a desert military outpost as the background. The two brilliant stars, Kay Francis and Errol Flynn arc costarred in "Another Dawn," a film of many attractions. It is a story o. the eternal triangle, with brilliant dialogue and plenty of action. There is a thrilling sequence when Errol Flynn and a small contingent of soldiers hold off Arab warriors in the desert, all but two of the British soldiers being killed. In the development of the plot, Miss Francis, who had been grieving for her dead fiancee, lulled in an aeroplane crash, accepts lan Hunter’s proposal of marriage Though he knew that site did not love him lie was willing to take a chance feeling that in time her feeling: would change. He takes her to live at the desert military outpost which lu commands'. Soon she realises that she is in love with Flynn, a subordinate officer, and that h ( > returns her love: but because of their respect for Hunter they restrain (heir feelings. Hunter knows what has happened, but thinking only of Miss Francis' happiness he takes over an assignment, which should have gone to Flynn, to undo a military blunder committed by Flynn, even though it meant certain death. Flynn is said to surpass his performance in that history-mak-ing movie, “The Charge of the Light Brigade." And it is said, too, that Hunter- once the idol of matinee girlsin London has the best opportunity that has come to him since the Warners imported him to play the Duke of Athens in "A Mid-summer Night's Dream. The man who directed “The Story of Louis Pasteur” and "The White Angel," William Dieterle, guided the making of "Another Dawn." Besides the three stars, the east includes such excellent players as Frieda Inescort, Herbert Mundin, Billy Bevmi, Clvde Cook, Mary Forbes and G. P. Huntley. The plans are now open at the Regent and early resetvation is advised by the management.