AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19897, 27 March 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE » » “THE YOUNG IN HEART”: A GREAT COMEDY I Thi* most fascinating family that ever strolled across a silver .screen is now holding count at the King's Theatre. They are the Charming Cartetons in David O. Selznick's ga> comedy romance, "The Young in Heart," starring Janet Ga.vn'or, Douglas Fairbanks, jun., and Paulette Goddard, with Roland “Topper" Young and Billie Burke heading one of the grandest supporting casts ever assembled for a motion picture. You will probably take every one of these lovable frauds to your heart. Based in I. A. R. Wylie's Saturday Evening Post story "The Gay Banditti," “The Young in Heart" tells the lovable, laughable story of the Carleton family, who live by their wits and their charm. REGENT THEATRE NORMA SHEARER AND TYRONE j POWER IN “MARIE ANTOINETTE’ Superb in every essential of a truly great motion picture, “Marie Antoinette," which screens at the Regent Theatre to-dav, is the peak of twe careers, those of Norma Shearer anc | Tyrone Power. Convincing in every j scene, passionately romantic, thrilling--1 j ly dangerous and grimly tragic, their ! co-starring for the first time in the picture that resumes Miss Shearer’s brilliant career is the perfect teaming Miss Shearer’s “Antoinette" is a girl eager to be in. love and to be loved. _ who linds herself married to : ~ moronic husband, a role superbly played by Robert Morley, young English arto-. making his first motion picture appearance. When he fads her and his country through weakness ot mind and spirit she seeks escape in mad pleasures and dangerous llirta- ' lions. But in the end she cannot eseapi her destiny as the last. Quen jf Franco n Power is a handsome, gallant and con--6 vincing Count Axel de Fersen, t’ne ma:. B who dared to love a queen. Their I g" romance is woven like a golden thread r» through some of the most spectaeuku scenes ever filmed: Antoinette’s ar' ivm „ at the Palace of Versailles, her murriage. the gay gambling ball where sin 3 entertained her fair-weather friends. 3 the Duke d’Orlcans’ ball, the escape j of the Royal Family to Varenues when revolution threatened and mad Pari: • when the guillontine heralded the birth ot the French Republic. There are . moments of great drama and poignant tragedy, but also delightful comedy. MAJESTIC THEATRE j , ! (,AST DAY: “I'M FROM THE CITY' ( AND “RIDE ’EM COWBOY” , I The rollicking comedy and action < week-end programme, consisting o 1 Joe Penner in “I’m From the City, c , and Buck Jones- in “Ride 'Em Cow- t boy," will be finally screened to- c night, commencing at 7.45 o’clock, j < —To-morrow: Revival of Irene Dunm in “The Awful Truth”; also “This 1 Marriage Business” — Irene Dunne scores mightily in the t choice comedy role as Lucy War- j riner in Columbia’s “The Awful (. Truth,” which returns to-morrow tc v the Majestic Theatre in a request revival. Irene Dunne merely r scratched the surface of her comedy c capabilities in “Theodora Goes , Wild.” It remained for tier hilarious clowning in “The Awful Truth tc reveal the treasure-trdve of talent ir. her inimitable personality. This gay fmadcap story of the Warriners ( played by Miss Dunne as Lucy and t Cary Grant as Jerry, is so uproari- j ously funny it is worth seeing again < L and again. The fun starts when Jerry and Lucy decide to separate. n with the only bone of contention the ~ custody of Mr. Smith, their wirelsair terrier, played by that clever j ( canine star Aster. Supporting this revival is a brand new comedy from R.K.0.. "This Marriage Business.' starring Victor Moore. Cecil Kella- v way, Allan Lane and Vicki Lester. The basis of the story is Moores novel record as a town clerk with never a divorce sought by any ol the couples to whom he has given marriage licenses. Lane is a newspaperman who writes a series ot stories on the subject, and thereby creates a huge rush of applicants to patronise “Cupid" Moore. This involves Lane in a romance with Moore’s pretty daughter, Vicki Lester, At her suggestion he essays to put *■ Moore in the Mayor’s chair—a task that meets unexpected difficulties. OPERA HOUSE “NIGHT MUST FALL”: THURSDAY Where is the missing Mrs. Chalfont C from the Tallboys Hotel Why is this H glib Irish boy so anxious to play n up to Mrs. Bramson? What is he b, really thinking of? What is he hid- ir ing in the hat box? These are the e: questions which .set the whole plot -J of “Night Must Fall” in motion. This spine-chilling thriller will be seen M in Gisborne for the first time in its ji original form at the Opera House D next Thursday as the Gisborne ai Repertory Society’s next production. G The cast chosen is a splendid one, E; and, with the considerably longer period that has been spent on rehearsals, undoubtedly should create tr an outstanding success. Mrs. Bram- e i son will be played by Miss Cora |, (l Oman, Olivia by Miss June Irvine. M Dan by Mr, Seddon I-lill, Hubert by e f Mr. R. S. Stacey, Mrs. Terence by cc Miss Barbara Grummitt, Dora by \ Miss Lilian Godfrey, Detective Bel- m size by Mr. I. Boagey, Nurse Libby th by Miss Jean Iliggs, „nnd the Chief Justice by Mr. G. Burns. The pro- be duction is in the hands of Miss p ; Ellen Millar.