AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 127, 11 May 1936, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

Plaza Theatre. “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES.” “Anne of Green Gables,” featuring Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, 0. P. Ileggie and Helen Westley, shows finally to night at the Plaza. The film is. based on L. M. Montgomery’s book. In the village peace of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, Matthew Culhbert (O. P. Reggie), bachelor, lives v ith his spinster sister Manila (Helen Westley). Lonely, they decide to adopt a hoy, sending their request to the orphanage by a neighbour. Through a misunderstanding a girl is sent. Red-hnirecl and big-eyed, her name is Anne Shirley, and she is blessed with an extremely vivid imagination, innate friendliness and a lively spirit. Gradually the orphan, with her lovable disposition, her ingratiating ways and her propensity to prattle endlessly in high-flown ‘ book language” wins ever the grim but kindly Manila, and the farmhouse that she has christened “Green Gables” becomes her permanent home. It is then that a touching story of a childhood friendship develops, between the boy of a neighbouring family and the girl that suffers a setback but is renewed by the boy saving the girl from drowning. Later the friendship blossoms into romance, hut an old feud between the respective families interferes, and it seems the two are lost to each other until the serious illness of the man and the saving of his life means the saving of their IOVQ.

King's Theatre. WHEELER AND WOOLSEY. Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey turn amateur detectives to solve a murder mystery in “The Nitwits,” their new RKO-Radio feature comedy finally at the King’s to night. The poignant griefs of childhood, its inarticulate romance, its robust joys, its thrills and its laughter have been gathered into a great film play, “Dinky,” also on the programme, starring Jackie Cooper. “The Glass Key,” a Paramount picture starring George Raft and coming to-morrow to the King’s Theatre, is the film version of the popular novel by Dashiell Hammett. The author, it will be remembered, has such successes as “The Thin Man” and “The Maltese Falcn” to his credit. The story of “The Glass Key” revolves abound a handsome young man who, at the risk of his own life, procures a confession that frees'his pal of a framed-up murder charge. Zanc Grey’s “Man of the Forest,” twenty ninth of his novels to resell"the screen, will be the second attraction at the King’s Theatre. H has Randolph Scott, Harry Carey. Noah Beery, Verna ITillie and Buster Crabbe in leading roles.