ENTERTAINMENTS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3813, 25 September 1936, Page 12

ENTERTAINMENTS

» AT THE REGENT. 1 SATURDAY AND MONDAY. “THREE LIVE GHOSTS.” One of the most famous stage plays of contemporary theatrical history becomes one of the season’s most amusing photoplays in “ Three Live Ghosts,” featuring Richard Arlen and opening to-morrow at the Regent Theatre. Originally a novel and play by Fredric S. Isham, “Three Live Qhosts ” was an instantaneous hit. It has continued a reigning favourite with stock companies and amateur theatrical performers, and was produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by John W. Considine, Jnr., and directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. It combines comedy, drama, and romance into an absorbing hour’s entertainrtient. Besides Arlen the cast includes Beryl Mercer, Claude Allister, Charles McNaughton, Cecilia Parker, Nydia Westman, Dudley Diggs, Jonathan Hale, Lillian Cooper, and Robert Greig. AT THE REGENT. AGAIN TO-NIGHT. A “DRIFT FENCE.” "Stirring drama, such as one has come to expect of a Zane Grey story, characterises “ Drift Fence,” the hew Paramount action picture which had its opening yesterday at the Regent Theatre. It unfolds a colourful story of - the days when desperadoes ruled the Arizona cattle lands and refused to let big ranchers confine their herds within fences. No one is more adept than Zane Grey in presenting primitive struggles of the vanished frontier days of Arizona; and “ Drift Fence ” is one of the most engrossing stories that have come from the pen of this wizard of western tales. Adventure, romance, and humour are skilfully interwoven in this danger-bristling melodrama. Leading roles are enacted by Larry “ Buster ” Crabbe, Katherine De Mille, Tom Keene, Benny Baker, Glenn Erikson, Stanley Andrews, Richard Carle, and Effie Ellsler.