ENTERTAINMENTS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3899, 10 May 1937, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

• AT THE REGENT. FINAL SCREENING TO-NIGHT. "THE DEVIL IS A SISSY.” Young Freddie Bartholomew apparently excels in any role that comes his way. The boy who gave us such a vivid portrayal of “David Copperfield” and again as “Little Lord Fauntleroy" now appears as a modern urchin of New York's lower East Side in “The Devil is a Sissy,” which opened at the Regent Theatre last Saturday night. In the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ot contemporary boyhood in the great cities, Freddie co-stars with Jackie Cooper and Mickey Rooney. lan Hunter and Peggy Conklin provide the romantic interest in a touching love story that enters into the adventurous narrative of the boys. Others in the cast are Gene and Kathleen Lockhart, Sherwood Bailey and Buster Slavin. The story was written by Rowland Brown. COMMENCING TO-MORROW. “THE GHOST GOES WEST.” Leave all your old nations about ghosts at home when you go down to the Regent Theatre this week. For the “spook” who w'alks the screen in “The Ghost Goes West,” Alexander Korda’s gay new romantic comedy, which comes to town to-morrow and on Wednesday and Thursday, is unlike any screen ghost you ever saw. He’s handsome, he’s charming, and he has a decided way with the ladies. The brilliant Robert Donat, who rose to world fame overnight as “The Count of Monte Cristo,” and recently scored in “The 39 Steps,” plays a dual role. He is seen botli as Donald Glourie, an impoverished young Scotch highlander who is forced to sell his haunted ancestral castle to an American millionaire, and also as the personable shade who strolls the castle halls. EMPIRE THEATRE. AGAIN TO-NIGHT. “THE GREAT O’MALLEY.” Patrons at the local Empire Theatre on Friday and Saturday evenings

thoroughly enjoyed the screening of “The Great O’Malley,” and urge others to attend the final screening to-night. Popular Pat O’Brien has a most sympathetic role in this most appealing heart interest story of a cop who tries to assist a little crippled girl. There is a good list of supporting features. COMMENCING TO-MORROW. “WHEN KNIGHTS WERE BOLD.” It is extremely doubtful if there is a more popular star on the stage or screen the world over than Jack Buchanan, whose first “World Standard” production, “When Knights were Bold,” comes to the Empire Theatre to-morrow for three nights. A universal favourite, with young and old, in all sections of the community, is Jack. But how many of his legion of admirers know that he is a product of Bonny Scotland, having been born in Glasgow on April 2 some thirty odd years ago. Catchy songs, witty dialogue, and, of course, what no Buchanan picture would be complete without, his spirited tap dancing, all combine to make “When Knights Were Bold” a film that both young and old alike will want to see once, twice, and even thrice.