AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 433, 14 May 1937, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

Plaza Theatre. “Dancing Pirate” With Rcre®l innorV-ions’ introduced in elaborate profusion “Dancing Pirate,” the first feature-length musical comedy-drama ever filmed in the new Technicolour process shows at the Plaza Theatre to-night. The result is a production calculated to arouse world-wide interest, both as an entertainment and as a technical achievement. It is the en_ 'tc’jfthjn.inent aspects’ of the picture which bids, for its greatest popularity, providing as it does a lavish diverting show. However, the pictorial advances revealed mark a new milestone in cinema art. Among the innovations in this Pioneer Pictures film is an ideia termed “imaginative colouring,” designed by Robert Edmund Jones, long regarded as the foremost authority in America on stage settings, colour and lighting effects. It represents Hollywood’s initial attempt to use colour as it has been employed for centuries by the greatest of painters. 1 and l is said to have resulted in cle'arer images, more reality and in complete removal of the dazzling gaudiness which characterised earlier colour

pictures. Beyond these and other important artistic features., the production boasts a fine featured dast including the screen’s new dancing star, Charles ; Collins, from th 6 New York and Loni'don stage; Frank Morgan in the type jof comedy he handles best; Steffi j Duna, dynamic ingenue; Victor Var_ j coni, Jack La-Rue' aid the Royal i Oansinos 1 , formerly command entertainers to the King and Queen of Spain and impressive dancing ensemble?* “Under Two Flags.” One of a long succession of desert romances which have been produced in fiction and on the screen with the sam e outstanding success, the cele. brated story of Ouinda, “Under Two . Flags,” makes even greater history ias one of the most notable pictures )to come In recent years from the 20th Century Fox studios. It will show- : at. the Plaza on Saturday and Moni day. Finely acted and produced i with telling realism, the tale makes.' | excellent entertainment. It. is one i of those few films which anyone with a love of action, true dramatic hrt j and excitement appreciates from be_ i ginning to end. Directed by Frank ' Lloyd,. ijhe magnitude of the whole production and the infinite pains obviously taken to secure the correct atmosphere are most impressive. It is an epic picture. The simple tale

of love aiwl jealousy in an exotic desert setting still weaves its spell. Many stories have geen woven around the Foreign Legion since Ouinda first captured th e imagination of an bldej generation, but the sad tale of Cigarette and her greiat love for years to come. In spite of a charming performance from Claudette Colbert and a shorter, but equally accomplished, interpretation from Rosalind Russell, Ronald Colman dominates the story. As a sergeant in the Foreign Legion, whos e past is mysterious but entirely honourable, he has a part to which [he is admirably suited). His cultured i but slightly melancholy air gives just the right touch to the character and one lives with him in his tri. tumphs and hardships with on e of the greatest fighting forces the world has ever known. As major of the Battalion, a blustering, forceful fellow, but a fine soldier, Victor McLaglen, also has a part which allows him full scope. HiS affection for Cigarette and his jealousy for the regard, and later the love, she shows for Colman, is the driving theme. The scenes of the fighting in the desert are without precedent. The photography rates with the best yet seen on the talking screen. King’s Theatre. “The Mighty Treve” “The Mighty Treve,” the Universal picture featuring Noah Beery, junr., and Barbara Read, shows at the King’s Theatre to-night. The story, taken from the novel “Treve,” by the noted author Albert Payson Terhune, relates the adventure, romance and pitfalls encountered by a young fellow when he set out to make his way in the world. The movie gains its dramatic force from the simple direct way in which it is presented, according to advance reports. After Noah meets Barbara he discovers that her uncle, a sheep owner, is an eccentric person with a cowering fear of dogs. Noah and his dog Treve are ordered off the ranch. Then Barbara gets in some fancy diplomacy and Noah remains with his canine pal, who later saves Uncle’s life. Treve wins a number of prizes at a dog show. The climax of the story is reached when owners of surrounding sheep Ranches accuse Treve of being a sheep killer. They are about to execute him when an unexpected development saves the animal. George Robey’s famous eyebrows have gone into action again for his latest production, "Southern Roses,” a fragrant musical comedy romance that sparkles with joyous entertainment, which also at the King’s on Thursday and Friday. The well-known comedian has Gina Malo, vivacious dancing and singing star, and Neil Hamilton as his confederates in this merry production which was mpde by Grafton films. Opening in the picturesque settings of Barcelona, “Southern Roses” is the story of a young naval officer, who meets and falls in love with a charming cabaret artiste, Mary Roland, not knowing that she is really an English society girl on an escapade. “Girl Overboard” ■ Thrilling, heart pulsing ’ drama comes to the King’s on Saturday and Monday, with the screening of Universal’s fast, moving story of fire at sea, "Girl Overboard!” With Gloria Stuart and Waltex- Pidgeon in the leading roles, “Girl Overboard!” tells the gripping story of a hunted woman who stakes everything—even lite itself—for the man. she. loves. “Girl Overboard!” will thrill you with its sweeping action, haunting drama and tender love story. Beautiful blonde Miss Stuart plays the role of a girl who flees from a too persistent suitdr—later to be enmeshed in the net of the law and accused of the man’s murder. Walter Pidgeon plays the District. Attorney who is expected to prosecute the woman he loves. Highlighting this unusual screen offering are some of the most amazing and realistic ship fire scenes ever filmed. In the inferno of this burning ship Gloria sees destroyed, the only proof of her innocence of murder. Flames reach out and consume the written confession of the real killer leaving Gloria a fugitive from justice. Besides Miss Stuart and Pidgeon, j the cast includes such favourites as ! Billy Burrud, Hobart Cavanaugh, Gerald Oliver Smith, Jack Smart, David Oliver and Charlotte Wynters. If you like realism, drama, swift action—then don’t miss "Girl Overboard!”

They used to say in England once upon a time, that the seductive Cigarette would sooner or later supplant the ytee altogether, but “the trade,” in the Old Land, says that pipe smoking there was never more popular than at the present time. Parsons, lawyers, doctors, politicians are all patrons of the pipe, and Mr. Baldwins cherrywood has become world-famous. New Zealanders smoke millions of cigarettes every year, but the pipe still holds pride st place with smokers innumerable in Maoriland. As for tobacco, tastes proverbially differ, but it’s no less true that "toasted” is first favourite with smokers throughout the length and breadth of the Dominion. The five genuine toasted brands, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullsbead). Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold, and Desert Gold are in incessant demand, for it’s now generally recognised that while they give the most enjoyable smoke it’s possible to get, they are (thanks to toasting) the purest and least harmful of any tobaccos manufactured. And you never tire of them! Once you take to toasted you’ll never want to change.