ENTERTAINMENTS

Southland Times, Issue 21219, 21 October 1930, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAJESTIC TO-NIGHT.

FINAL SCREENING "CZAR OF BROADWAY,” ALSO EXCLUSIVE PICTURES R.M.S. TAHITI SINKING.

A remarkable picture of the underworld is "Czar of Broadway,” which closes tonight at the Majestic Theatre. It is remarkable in that, it gives an entirely new angle to the underworld story, and is presented in five thrilling reels that abound with action. Amid the plots and counterplots of the underworld there grows 'a romance between, an entertainer in a night club and a young reporter. The romance is not a' quiet one. The young lovers carry on in an atmosphere that is not commensurate with a spring-time love affair. The young reporter finds himself confronted with a choice between love and duty, and he makes an interesting and fortunate choice. The directorial work of William J. Craft is unusually fine. Ho has handled the thrilling sequences with ' a great finesse and pierced them together in an expert manner. An all-etar cast comprising a great array of motion picture talent aids in making “Czar of Broadway” a brilliant success. In the east appear the names of John Wray, Betty Compson, John Harron, Claud Allister, King Baggot, Wilbur Mack and Edmund Breese. The pictures showing the sinking of the ill-fated R.M.S. Tahiti will also be screened for the last time to-night. These remarkable scenes show the details of the actual lifeboat lowering from the doomed ship, and include the actual final plunge of the vessel. Plans are at the Bristol. Majestic Theatre telephone No. 738. COMING TO-MORROW TO THE MAJESTIC. Leatric Joy returns to the screen at the Majestic Theatre to-morrow in “A Most Unworthy Lady,” a fast-moving First National screen version of the sensational play by Townsend Martin. Walter Pidgeon plays opposite Miss Joy, and a very strong cast is headed by a famous player who is a newcomer to the screen, Sidney Blackmer, who plays one of the most important roles. Montagu Love, Josephine Dunn, Robert Edeson, Donald Reed, Florence Oakley and Wileon Benge are among the favourites who enact other characters of “A. Most Unworthy Lady.” “A Most Unworthy Lady” has a diversity of locales, embracing New York. Producers have given Miss Joy’s picture a costly and luxurious staging. THE REGENT. LAST SCREENING OF GEORGE ARLISS IN “THE GREEN GODDESS.” To-night will afford the last opport unity to those who have not yet seen that renowned actor George Arliss in a play in which he acted for three years in America and a year in,England on the legitimate stage. This was the Indian melodrama, “The Green Goddess,” which tells of the perilous experiences, which three English people have as the guest of the Rajah of Rukh, an Indian potentate who hates the English heartily. The English party, Major Crespin and his wife, Lucilla, and Dr Traherne, while aeroplaning about the Himalayas, are forced to descend in the Rajah’s territory. They choose an unpropitious time, as three of the Rajah’s halfbrothers are to be executed by the English for murder and treason. The Rajah plans to take the lives of his three English guests in exchange for those of his half-brothers, but offers to spare Lucilla if she will join his harem. After a series of the most thrilling happenings, in which Major Crespin is killed, and Lucilla and Dr Traherne are on the point of torture and death, an English air squadron arrives and demands the release of the prisoners. The diabolical Rajah is defiant until a bomb dropped near the temple of “The Green Goddess” nearly brings his palace tumbling about his ears. Traherne and Lucilla are freed, and the Rajah, nonchalantly puffing a cigarette, remarks that it is just as well, as "she would probably have been a damned nuisance anywav.” The outstanding feature in the most entertaining all-talking supporting subjects was some magnificent singing by Charles Hackett, the renowned tenor of the Chicago Opera House, with Chase Baromco as "Mephistophes” in the Transformation Scene from “Faust.” REGENT THEATRE, GORE. ‘THE BISHOP MURDER CASE.” Those picture fans who enjoyed the two popular mystery film successes,, "Unholy Night” and “The Thirteenth Chair,” have a treat in store for them when ‘The Bishop Murder Case” starts to-night at the Regent Theatre, Gore. The new all-talking murder drama from the novel by S. S. Van Dine, a best seller, is reputed to be by far the best all-round mystery film to come out of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Advance reports indicate that particular care was taken.to give the new thriller a number of original twists and sequences which keep the audiences on its toes while confusing it as to the identity of the real murderer. It is really a picture worth seeing.

EMPIRE PICTURES, RIVERTON,

The first talkie programme to be shown at Riverton will be screened at the Empire Theatre to-morrow (Wednesday) at 8 p.m. Seymour Hicks will be presented in “Sleeping Partners” —a joyous, all-talking, allBritish production. The box plan will be opened at the theatre at 10 a.m. to-morrow. Country residents are requested to ring 63M for reserves.