ENTERTAINMENTS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4047, 13 May 1938, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

AT THE REGENT. COMMENCING SATURDAY. “PRESCRIPTION FOR ROMANCE.” When motion picture scientists combine equal parts of Mischa Auer and Frank Jenks, add a spicy dash of Wendy Barrie and Kent Taylor, then pour into the mixer a colourful foundation of gay lovemaking and wild humour, theatre audiences have just what the doctor ordered in “Prescription For Romance,” the romantic comedy which opens to-morrow at the Regent Theatre. Most of the action of the story is laid in Budapest, Hungary', where a New York embezzler has fled to escape the clutches of the law and a sweetheart. He finds refuge with a beautiful American woman doctor, who is attached to a Budapest clinic. A struggle over this ignoble crook now takes place between the 1 detective, the newspapermen, a bogus count on the make, the vengeful sweetie and the lady doctor who believes herself under obligation to Barton. In the end the detective gets both the lady doctor and the crook. AGAIN TO-NIGHT. “STORM IN A TEACUP.” Dogs, Dogs, Dogs! Lean dogs, fat dogs, mongrel dogs, pedigree dogs, lap dogs, yap dogs—lso of the brutes crowd the screen and are said to provide a hilarious climax to United Artists latest release, “Storm In a Teacup” which is now showing at the Regent theatre. The chief doggy star is Scruffy who has previously' appeared in “Wharves and Strays” and “Wings of the Morn ; ng.” Despite this fame he is still just a mongrel to his pals. He is the innocent cause of all the trouble. A stubborn provost in a small Scottish town orders him to be destroyed, but he finds a champion in the person of a young newspaper reporter played by Rex Harrison, who co-stars with pretty Vivien Leigh. In an effort to turn the tables on the nasty provost the reporter collects all the dogs in the neighbourhood and descends in force upon the dignitary’s home while he is at dinner.

AT THE EMPIRE. FINAL SCREENING TO-NIGHT. “ GOOD MORNING BOYS I ” The story of “Good Morning Boys’” at the Empire Theatre again to-night, is one full of interest. In Paris a gang of thieves plan to steal the picture of the Mona Lisa from the Lou-

i vre. There is only one man capable of doing the job, “Arty” Jones, the English crook languishing in Dartmoor. At Dr Twist's College, St. Michael, situated on the edge of Dartmoor, is Jones’s son. “Rat” Higgins, an emissary of the Parisian gang, is sent to St. Michael’s to negotiate the escape of “Arty” Jones with the help of Jones minor. Meanwhile at St. Michael’s school life proceeds under the unorthodox methods prescribed by Dr Twist. A new school governor, a fiery Colonel Willoughby-Gore, after a cursory examination of the school’s management, demands the resignation of the incapable Mr Twist. Then the complications get really exciting. SATURDAY AND MONDAY. “THE SECRET OF STAMBOUL.” Associated Distributors’ latest release—a production rich i.i action, charged with thrills and of true Eastern setting; a production that holds the tension from the opening to final fade-out is entitled “The Secret of Stamboul.” Playing the central character is Frank Vosper, as Kazdim, a sinister Turkish revolutionary leader. Valerie Hobson has the feminine lead of Tania, a Russian refugee under Kazdim’s power; and James Mason is the dashing hero, Captain Larry Desteem. Larry, a young officer, in protecting a girl at a Club Hah, knocks down a Turkish diplomat. As a result, his resignation is called for. He is persuaded 'by the girl’s father to take over the managership of a tobacco company in Turkey. At Stamboul he meets Tania, and later discovers that she is in the power of Kazdim, leader of a secret organisation seeking to overthrow the Turkish Government. When Larry learns too much Kazdim plans his death, but Tania rescues him in the nick of time. Larry then gets word to the authorities, and the headquarters of the organisation are raided before the proposed revolution can take place. Kazdim gets his just deserts, while Larry and Tania find romance as the reward for solving “The Secret of Stamboul.'’