ENTERTAINMENTS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3829, 4 November 1936, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. AGAIN TO-NIGHT. “THE GARDEN MURDER CASE.” Philo Vance falls in love! That is the high spot —or one of them —in “The Garden Murder Case," latest of S. S. Van Dine’s delightful stories of the super-scientific detective. With Edmund Lowe as Vance, and lovely blonde Virginia Bruce as the object of his affections, the picturisation of the novel opened yesterday at the Regent Theatre. It is utterly delightful entertainment. Never has the character ot Philo Vance been more engagingly portrayed, and never has he under- - gone more thrilling adventures than in this new story. Three mysterious deaths occur to puzzle him, and more than once he skirts the edge of doom as he moves through a maze of conflicting evidence seeking the killer. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. “ROBIN HOOD OF EL DORADO.” Thundering across the screen with majestic grandeur, “Robin Hood of El Dorado” comes to the Regent Theatre to-morrow to herald the rebirth of a new era of spectacular outdoor films. Warner Baxter, as the dashing Joaquin Murrieta, gives the finest characterisation of his career on the screen. He portrays a character who left his name written large on the early history of the Far West, a good-bad man who plundered the rich to help the poor. With him is a newcomer, Ann Loring. She portrays a daughter of the Dons turned savage, and in dramatic intensity she weaves a performance that is truly outstanding. Sharing feminine honours is Margo, the lovely Spanish dancing beauty. EMPIRE THEATRE. NEXT WEEK-END. THE CHARM SCHOOL.” It is not often that those prime favourites, Jack Oakie, Ned Sparks and Irene Castle, appear in pictures screened locally, but the Emprie The-

atre management has secured the smart musical eomedy, “The Charm School,” for screening next Friday, Saturday and Monday, and the three artists named figure prominently in this entertaining production, along with Joe) Penner, Lynne Overman and Elisabeth Patterson. It is a really bright production, with gay dialogue and elaborate settings, so patrons should enjoy the programme, especially as good supporting subjects have been arranged for.