ENTERTAINMENTS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3928, 19 July 1937, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. FINAL SCREENING TO-NIGHT. ‘•TARZAN ESCAPES.” Algernon, a Malayan honey bear, doesn’t live up to his peaceful appellation. In fact, he chewed himself out of a screen role. He was brought to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios for the scenes with an antelope, a couple of lion cubs, a crane, and a zebra in “Tarzan Escapes,” which is to have its final screening locally this evening at the Regent Theatre. Immediately he was placed in the wire enclosure Algernon got busy. He attacked all the other animals, then chewed his way out of the wire fence. He was captured and sent home in his steel cage. And Algernon the fighter is only a foot long and six inches high! TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. “THE PLAINSMAN. “Calamity Jane,” famous frontier woman of the early ‘7o’s, joins the glamorous array of gorgeous women who made history, and whose lives were glorified by the genius of Cecil B. DeMille, in Paramount’s “The .Plainsman,” a saga of the West, which begins on Tuesday at the Regent Theatre. “Calamity” packed a pair of six guns like the best of ’em, and handled a six horse stage coach over what then passed for roads in the West. “Calamity Jane” is played by beautiful Jean Arthur, and it is her romance with “Wild Bill” Hickok, famous peace officer in the lawless wild, portrayed by Gary Cooper, which forms the basis of the broad and sweeping film of America in the making. Other famed frontier characters who come back to life in the DeMille saga are “Buffalo Bill,” played by James Ellison; his wife, Louisa, by Helen Burgess; General George A. Custer, by John Miljan; and a host of other noted soldiers, gamblers, pioneers, Indian chiefs and frontiersmen. EMPIRE THEATRE. FINAL SCREENING TO-NIGHT. "FATAL LADY.” Mary Ellis, former Metropolitan Opera prima donna, stars in “Fatal Lady," the Walter Wagner production for Paramount which opened at the Empire Theatre on Friday evening, and again displays the fine quality of her lovely voice and personal charm.

Her performance in her current picture tar exceeds her highly meritorious acting in “All the King’s Horses.” Miss Ellis portrays an opera singer whose fatal charms bring death to the men who fall in love with her. Not until a young American suitor is found dead, however, and the boy’s brother conceives a clever trick to capture the murderer, is the killer caught and the opera star cleared of all blame.

The story is filled with thrills, as suspicion is cast from one character to another with such startling rapidity as to keep the audience continually mystified. Meanwhile the romance is exceedingly well developed and the music heard in the picture is delightful. In support of Miss Ellis are Walter Pidgeon, in the romantic lead; John Halliday, Alan Mowbray, Norman Foster, Ruth Donnelly, Edgar Kennedy and Guy Bates. “Fatal Lady” is worth noting as a picture which should not be missed. COMMENCING TO-MORROW. “NOBODY’S FOOL.” Are you sad or happy? Grouchy or aglow with good humour? Lonesome or in the midst of life's gayest romance? Nover mind, don’t answer. No matter what your mood, you’ll get a greater kick out of existence after you see Edward Everett Horton in “Nobody’s Fool,” the Universal cyclone of comedy which opens at the Empire Theatre to-morrow evening. Here is a prescription for longer life and louder, funnier laughs. Get two big eyefuls of “Nobody’s Fool” and repeat the treatment until exhausted from laughing. It is the elixir of youth, bubbling right out of the fountain of joy. Just what the doctor ordered for spring fever, summer complaint, fallen arches and winter skating. All prescriptions filled with a smile and the right change at the Empire Theatre box office. You shake well during and after taking this joggling giggle compound. Horton’s assistant fun dispensers include Glenda Farrell, who is a howling comedy success all by herself. Cesar Romero adds a dash of swashbuckling humour, while Warren Hymer provides abdominal guffaws that will bend ribs and dislocate adam’s apples painlessly.