AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE LAST DAY: "BOY FROM BARNARDO'S" To-night will see the final screening of Mickey Rooney and Freddie Bartholomew in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer s exciting .story o£ men in the making, "The Boy From Bamardo's." —To-morrow: Return Season, "Young Doctor Kildare" — Drama and romance in the life ol a struggling junior physician are entertainingly blended in "Young Doctoi Kildare," which opens to-morrow at the Regent Theatre. The characters in all such stories are ready-made foi the theatre because there is always the pulse-beat ol' human emotions in the atmosphere. The atmosphere Ol life in the wails of a great generaj hospital is brought xo the screen with effective power. This is the inside that is known only to the staff surgeons. I'he nurses, internes, and the police reporters. It is a side with which ever the patients never become familiar. Lew Ayres as the eager young Dr Kildare' is human and natural in s role which he plays with artistic restraint. Lynne Carver handles the I romantic lead with technique that indicates beyond question her early rise-, to stardom. Lionel Barrymore as the grizzled surgeon who knows that his days are numbered gives a performance that is entirely in accord with the Barrymore tradition. Jo Ann Savers, who enacts the tragic role ol a rich man's daughter, weary of life and 1 all that it means, reveals a rare talent with remarkable depth oi understanding. The supporting cast is uniformly excellent, with first-rate performances by Nat Pendleton Samuel S. Hinds, Emma Dunn, Waltei Kingsfordi and Truman Bradley. The story ol "Young Doctor Kildare" preflit's an ambitious interne in a metropolitan hospital in love with his boyhood sweetheart back home. He win ihe interest and friendship of : veteran surgeon, portrayed brilliantly by Barrymore. However, the yOUilf doctor encounters difficulty in hi* profession, first when he protects ; fellow-interne who fails to save the life of a prominent politician, anc i again when he disagrees with a > superior in the matter of a diagnosis , The grim drama that exists in the , emergency ward of a great hospital the tense lives of those Who wort there, and the tender romance of the struggling young interne, mingle effectively in this novel story of modern life.

MAJESTIC THEATRE REVIVAL: ROBERT MONTGOMERY £N "PICCADILLY JIM" AND FRANK MORGAN IN "ROMANCE FOR THREE" The biggest double-comedy revival in the history of the Majestic Theatre will commence to-day with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Romance for Three' ■ and "Piccadilly Jim." fhrills, laughs, and spills are the keynote of "Romance for Three.' Laughs come from the plot of the escapade in the Alps, and spills art the result of the ski jumps made by amateurs. The all-star comedy cas. is headed by Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Mary Astor, Edna May Oliver, Florence Rice, Reginald Owen Henry Hull and Herman Bing. The ~tory concerns u rich capitalist whe wins his own contest for a prize slogan and goes to the Alps for twe weeks as a prize. He pretends to be poor and takes his valet along to act as a rich man. His family informs the hotel that Morgan is actually rich, hut they make a mistake and treat the other contest winner. Young, as the righ man. Young has been 'poor so long that he enjoys the mistake, and that is where the trouble starts. Miss Astor tries to vamp all three men, much to the disapproval of Miss Rice, Morgan's daughter who joins with his housekeeper, Miss Oliver, to put a s4op to the whole thing. The associate comedy, "PiccaHilly Jim," is in the most enjoyable '.'. G. VVodehouse style, a delightful comedy of a cartoonist, whose skits nearly spoiled his romance. A brilliant cast is headed by Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Billie Burke, Frank Morgan, Robert Benchley, E E. Clivc and Eric Blore. The box plans are filling for Mickey Rooney and Wallace Beery in "Stablemates," which commences next Friday.

KING'S THEATRE "SUEZ"—SEASON EXTENDED Produced with the magnitude, possible only on the screen, one of the most memorable pictures ever to come out of Hollywood is the Twentieth Century-Fox production —"Suez," now playing to capacity houses at the King's Theatre, and which will conclude its Gisborne season oi Wednesday night. "Suez" is a trulj great picture. In spectacle, emotional experience and sheer entertainment it is unsurpassed. The story tells ol the amazing Ferdinand do Lcsseps, who dreamed of creating the short route to the East, sought vainly by Columbus and Magellan, by tearing continents apart and joining the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. The great canal he built has become the jugular vein of the world. Tyrone Power gives thrilling realism to the central character with Loretta Young md Annabella, appearing in the ,'emininc leads. —"The Cowboy and the Lady": Thursday— The startling adventures of a glamorous young socialite who causes considerable eyebrow-lifting among Washington's "better people" wher. she marries a roving cowboy from the Western plains, is both humorously and dramatically unfolded in Samuel Gold'wyn's "The Cowboy and the Lady," coming to the King's Theatre on Thursday. Gary Cooper is ideally cast as the cowboy and Merle Oberon is the ladv. A hand-picked supporting cast includes Patsy Kelly, Waller Brennan, Mabel Todd and' Fuzzy Knight. Miss Kelly is romantically teamed with Brennan and Mabel Todd with Knight. The good impression created by lavish production is maintained by good individual acting performances, especially by the principals, with Cooper outstanding. The booking office is busy for this attraction.