AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE

JOSETTE" SPARKLING MUSICAL COMEDY—TO-MORROW

The sauciest escapade in the history of love, as sav as a Mardi Gras, with three delightful stars and merry with Gordon and Revel tunes, brings Don Ameehe, Simone Simon and Robert Young to the King’s Theatre tomorrow in 20th Century-Fox s comedy hit, “Joselte.” ‘Tl’s vivo I’amour in naughty New Orleans as Don and Bob chase Simone, who must think faster than one and run taster than the other—but not too much faster! The tantalising little coquette has talked herself into a pretty mix-up. so that there are two Josettes, one for the boys' Papa and another lor the boys themselves. To prevent Papa’s ’ proposed remarriage with a scheming beauty, Don and Bob pack him on to New York, so naturally he takes his Josette with him. Josette No. 2 remains in the gav city of the South for the gayest courtship in the annals of romance. Bert Lahr heads the featured cast with .loan Davis, wlto recently was acclaimed No. 1 comedienne by a New York newspaper’s nation-wide poll. Paul Hurst, William Collier, sen., and Tala Birell have prominent roles in the him. “Snow While and the Dwarls” The worst housekeeper in the world will be greatly cheered alter she secs Walt Disney’s' first feature-length production, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” which opens Monday next at the King's, for until the advent of Snow White to the cottage ot the little band, they could have easily won the sweepstakes for having the most untidy house on record. When the little birds and animals of the forest guide Snow White to the dwarfs’ cottage, after she has run away from her wicked step-mother who had planned to kill her. she and her new-found friends go to work and make the little house as clean as a new pin. Squirrels use their bushy tails as brooms and sweep the dust out, dirty clothes are scrubbed by Snow White and the animals, with a turtle turning himself upside down to serve as a washboard. Birds fly with the clothes to a clothesline and hang them up to dry. The consternation ot the dwarfs when they behold the change in their abode accounts for many a laugh. Snow White’s aptitude at stirring up gooseberry pies and raisins in the crust, apple dumplings and plum pudding soon played havoc with the dwarfs' morals and they were willing that cleanliness should enter their lives.

REGENT THEATRE

FINAL SCREENING OF TOM WALLS IN “SECOND BEST BED

Ben Travers’ screamingly funny face, "Second Best Bed,' mis Kepi Regent audiences in lits of lauglHei during its mid-week dream. The cast is headed by the inimitable Tom Walls and Jane Baxter.

—To-morrow: "Merrily We Live," Extended Season Comeny Attraction —

Constance Bennett, the blonde channel' of "Topper," and oruu. Anerne, last seen on the screen a; 'tlie Eirent Garrick," are co-starreci lor the first time in the new Hat Roach-M-G-iVI production, “Merrily vVe Live,' which comes direct from

its record breaking season ot eleven weeks in Auckland. Supporting them is Hollywood's outstanding cast o.

the new season. Billie Burke, who scored so successfully as the Victorian wife in "Topper," has thu role of Mrs. Kilbourne, a philanthropist, whose specialty is the relormation ot hoboes who call at hei door. Alan Mowbray, also of “Topper” fame, again is east as a butler, but in the current production ins role gives him more scope for comedy than the previous one. Patsy Kelly,

< lie of the screen’s foremost comediennes, romps through the role of a

cook in the Kilbourne establishment. Her life is made hectic through the enthusiasms of Mrs. Kilbourne foi her newly-discovered tramps and through the butler’s disgust at these humanitarian endeavours. In the rule of a Senator's daughter whose predatory eye settles upon Miss Bennett’s romantic interest in the film is Ann Dvorak. Bonita Granville not entirely' grown-up, 'but wearing lice first tioor-length dinner gown in the picture, plays the “kid sister” in the Kilbourne family. .She augments her allowance by threats of blackmail and sells potty secrets between members of the famil.v for fancy prices. Tom Brown is the "kid brother," whose growing up passes unnoticed by other members of the family. He is by turns wheedling and rebellious, but nothing lie does or says upsets the family’s mad pace or distracts them from their individually amusing inlenests. As Henry Kilbourne, nominal head <>! the family, but in reality as inefficient as iiis wife or any of his children, is Clarence Kolb, one of the screen’s foremost character actors. Another popular film player lending his talents to "Merriky We Live” is Phillip Reed, “tall, dark and handsome,” who plays the role of Miss Bonnet’s discarded suitor and acts as a foil for the nranks of Aherne and Mowbray. The director of this stellar aggregation is Norman 7j. McLeod, famed for his deft handling of comedy and acclaimed for the success of his oreceding production. “Topper." High-lighting the splendid supporting programme arc “Glimpses of New Brunswick, ’’ Fitzpatrick's coloured travellalk o l ' one of Canaria’s most interesting' provinces, and "Come Across" another of the "Crime doesn't Pay” series.