AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 163, 22 June 1936, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

Plaza Theatre. "THE'GHOST GOES WEST" TONIGHT. Robert Donat, the handsome young English actor who rose to wo. Id fame overnight last season when he was brought to Hollywood to play "The Count of Con-e Cristo," makes lite latest appearance in "The Ghost Goes West," Alexander Korda's gay romantic comedy' which is showing at the Plaza Theatre, Stratford. Jean Parker and Eugene Palette head the supporting cast . The story follows the amazing and amusing adventures of a handsome and amiable "spook" who haunts an anicent Scottish cas*tie.- When a wealthy American food merchant named Martin buys the castle from Donald G'.ourie, the ghost's debt-ridden descendant, and transports it to America stone by stone the spook goes along. Donat plays the. dual role of Donald and the ghost. The story reaches a surprise comedy climax when Martin, who had decided to use the ghost to advertise his grocery business, re-erects the ludicrously modernised castle in New York and holds a gala reception to introduce his famous "spook" to the gentlemen of the Press. "The Ghott Goes West" is a London film released through United Artists. It was adapted by Robert E. Sherwood from a story in London Punch, by' Eric Keown. "The Ghost Goes West" is the first production to be directed in English by Rene Clair, the famous French director who handled the megaphone on such successes as "Sous Leg Toits tie Paris," "Le Million" and "A Nous La Liberte." King's Theatre. "THE MILKY WAY." Harold Lloyd's comedy, "The M Iky Way," a Paramount picture, will show at King's to-night. Laughter strews the path of the spectacled comedian in his timid progress from the uneventful life of a milkman to the pulsing career of a fight champion. He is always skipping out of trouble. He steps into the limelight by ducking away from a blow aimed at him by a drunken crony of the middleweight champion. The champion gets the punch and goes down for the count. Reporters pounce on the milkman. He brags, and is egged on into declaring that ho knocked out the gre'aV undefeated cnampjbn, This catapults. l Lloyd into fame as a contender. A promoter collars him and puts him into training. Ho is forced to fight, the champion. There is going to be a massacre —with the exmnkman scheduled to he on the receiving end of the punishment. It would be spoiling the fun to tell what happens when, trembling, Lloyd, spectacles and all, is pushed into the ring.