AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19700, 4 August 1938, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE “BLUEBEARD’S EIGHTH WIFE”: LAST DAT The famous Continental comedy, “Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," has its final screening to-night. The brilliant dialogue and delightfully funny situations in this film have given comedy a splendid evening's entertainment and to-night is the last opportunity for those who have not seen it, and it certainly should not bo missed. The “first-half" is good. ‘Varsity Show”: Warner’s Big Musical— The popular Dick Powell and a merry crew of comedians, singers, dancers and musicians will be here to-morrow to entertain the whole family at the Regent. This is Dick Powell’s best film to date and good entertainment is provided. “Varsity Show" includes Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanian Band and makes a new era in musical shows. Included in the stellar cast besides Dick Powell and Fred Waring are such leading figures as Ted Hcalv. Lee Dixon, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Buck and Bubbles, Walter Catlett, Johnny Davis and Roy Atwell. Busby Berkeley, known for his imaginative and lavish production numbers in past Warner Bros.' musicals, outdoes himself in “Varsity Show,” with a smashing finale. The plot of the picture deals with the efforts of Chuck .Daly (Dick Powell), a Broadway producer temporarily on his uppers, to stage the annual Quadrangle Club show at Winfield College. Daly, himself a Winfield graduate, is induced to return to the college to rescue the 'varsity show from the hands of Prof. Sylvester Biddle (Walter Catlett), faculty adviser, who is all for art and nothing for modernity in school presentations. Daly overcomes many obstacles set before a successful production by Professor Biddle, pushes members of the cast through special scholastic examinations and then figures in a student strike brought on when Biddle ousts him from the campus. The undergraduates take matters into their own hands. The show must go on. It does.. Playing side by side in “Varsity Show" are Dick Powell, veteran of many Warner Bros.’ musical productions, and Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, newcomers to the screen but old hands in front of a radio microphone, Rosemary and Priscilla Lane. Dick Whiting and Johnny 'Mercer combined their talents to turn out an engaging musical score. It is excellent entertainment and early reservation is advised. MAJESTIC THEATRE LAST DAY: “MIDNIGHT INTRUDER” AND “LITTLE MISS ROUGHNECK” A very bright and most enjoyable programme will conclude to-night at the Majestic Theatre. “Midnight- Intruder" is a blend of comedy, mystery and romance, starring Louis Hayward, Barbara Read and Eric Lunden. “Little Miss Roughneck,” starring Little Edith Fellows, Leo Carrillo and Jacqueline Wells, is a pleasing comedy-drama in which Edith Fellows is heard in several songs. —To-morrow: “Tip-Off Girls” and Cassidy of Bar 20”— An entertaining programme, including the thrilling film “Tip-Off Girls” and the western production “Cassidy of Bar 20,” will commence a season at the Majestic Theatre to-morrow. The first attraction deals with an attempt by American G-men to discover the identity of a gang which is holding-up and looting lorries as they pass along the main highways. Twb of the detectives, Bob Anders (Lloyd Nolan) and Tom Benson (Roscoe ’Kants), set out to bring about the capture of the criminals. They decide that their best course is to join up with the band, and in order to accomplish this, Anders and Benson themselves hold-up a lorry containing the loot of the gang. The leader of the criminals decided to employ them and gradually the two men are able to discover all the secrets of'the highway robbers. The picture is brought to a thrilling climax when a member of the gang discovers the identity of Anders and Benson, and a battle between the police and the criminals ensues. Mary Carlisle, Larry Crabbc and Evelyn Brent appear in the chief supporting roles. The second film, “Cassidy of Bar 20," is adapted from the entertaining cowboy novel by Clarence Mulford. Once again the role of Hopalong Cassidy is capably portrayed by William Boyd, while the cast includes Russell Hayden, Frank Darien and Nora Lane. Cassidy discovers that rustlers are operating in a district in Arizona and are intimidating the ranchers it give up their holdings. After many exciting episodes, ‘he film is brought to a satisfactory conclusion when Cassidy and his men defeat the rustlers in an open battle. Chapter 2 of “Flash Gordon’s trip to Mars” and newsreels will complete a highly entertaining programme.