AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19698, 2 August 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

5 REGENT THEATRE « "BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE": f EXTENDED SEASON Another Regent show enjoying an extended season is the Cooper-Col-bert-Horton comedy, based on the famous continental play •'Bluebeard's Eighth Wife." It has everything needed for a good evening's entertainment, the dialogue is clever and the situations funny. Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper form a brilliant new comedy team, while the direction of Ernst Lubitsch brings out the punch of the French background in "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," a picture of life among Europe s smart set. The story. adapted from the famous play of Alfred Savoir, tells about a much-married American multi-millionaire who is subdued and put into a strait-jacket bv his eighth wife, whom he marries for a new thrill. Miss Colbert is the same flippant, ingenious girl who made screen history in "I Met Him in Paris." Cooper, as the philandering American, plays opposite her in a role \ that fits him well. After becoming the : bride oi the much-married financier, ! Miss Colbert, a penniless French arisI focrat, starts out on a campaign to j bring him to his knees and humble his i pride for the first time. Before the honeymoon is over. Cooper is her obedient servant. This is one of the shows thai all lovers of sophisticated cumedv should not miss. The "firs! hall" includes "Gold." interest and ™ novelty; "Paramounl Pictorial." var- " lely items: "Let": Celebrate." Pop <g e cai'loon; "Tile Eiftle Princes es allelic! the Aldersiiot Tallin."; Ih« •Trooping ol the Colour"; Catholii World Congress in Budapest; "Jap- I MAJESTIC THEATRE ! COMEDY-MYSTERY, "MIDNIGHT "INTRUDER," and COMEDY-MUSI-CAL "LITTLE MISS ROUGHNECK" "Midnight Intruder," a lilm which - , spins a tale of sparkling comedy. j mystery and romance, heads the , double bill now at the Majestic. The i 1 plot revolves around Barry Gilbert, a ■ ! rias'hing adventurer. When Barry j poses as a wealthy publisher's son, he steps into a bog of trouble from , which he i.s rescued only by his quick ' wit. The wife of the man he imper- . i senates threatens to expose him; he > is compelled to become a detective to ; free an innocent man: he falls in love with a girl whose father is mixed up In a murder- these are a few of the ■ adventures he encounters in the film. "Midnight Intruder" contains all the elements of good entertainment. There are hilarious situations, tense moments, a gorgeous night club set. j and tender love scenes -all skilfully woven into this Universal production. , Perl. Barbara Head plays the role of . Patricial Hammond, the lovely temp- s tress who snares Louis Hay ward, cast ..\ as Barry Gilbert, and converts him < from a vagabond to a paragon. J. C. ■ Nugent and Robert Greig handle the i : comedy roles. Edith Fellow's, aided | and abetted by Leo Carrillo, Scotl n Colton, Jacqueline Wells and Thurs- |. ton Hall, is the wild-eyed mistress of , ; ceremonies of Columbia's new com- \- edy musical. "Liltle Miss Roughneck." which is the associate feature. Little [Willi, rccentlv featured in "She Mar-- j ried Her Boss" and "Pennies from j Ih-aven," plays her first 100 featured v role in Ibis picture. This lilm tells Ihe Hollywood story of a screen- j struck child actress in charge of her ~ llutlery, insufferable mother. Some- . where en route the little star-to-be v decides to kidnap herself for the ~ publicity involved, and manages to j accomplish a good deal more than s that. Miss Fellows, portraying the i; , child acrtess. sings several popular ; numbers. (