ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 20 April 1929, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S THEATRE. CHARLIE MURRAY TO-DAY. Human, whimsical comedy is the keynote of “The Head Man,” First National’s adaptation of Harry Leon Wilson’s famous novel, “The Boss of Little Arcady,” featuring Charlie Murray. The lively comedy-drama is showing for the last * time this afternoon and to-night at Everybody’s theatre. Lucien Littlefield, Larry Kent and Loretta Young head the supporting cast. “The Virgin Queen,” the M.G.M. technicolour featurette, deals with incidents in the lives of Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh, and is filmed in beautiful coloured photography. Other films to be shown include another of “The Collegian” series and topical budget. Everybody’s orchestra will be in attendance this evening and the gramophone recital will commence at 7 p.m. The special three star programme opening at Everybody’s on Monday includes “The Mysterious Lady,” a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production from the novel “War in the Dark” by Ludwig Wolff. It is a. spy drama with settings in Austria and Russia with Greta Garbo and Conrad Nagel heading the cast. The second attraction James Murray and Barbara Kent in tiie Universal-Jewel feature “The Shakedown,” a drama of the boxing ring and oilfields. An added attraction will be another of the famous music master series entitled Haydn and Mozart. THE PEOPLE’S THEATRE. “PREP AND PEP” MATINEE. “Prep and Pep,” a scintillating com-edy-drama that embodies every element of its title pertaining to youth, opens at the matinee this afternoon at The People’s theatre where it will screen again to-night and on Monday. This is a special Fox Films feature directed by David Butler and is a refreshing story of modern youth and prep school days. David Rollins and Nancy Drexel, two of the most popular juveniles on the screen to-day, are seen in the featured roles, supported by John Darrow, E. H. Calvert and Frank Albertson. The story revolves around Cyril Reade (Rollins), a mother’s boy, who comes to school and finds he is expected to live up to the reputation of his famous father, Tiger Reade. Cyril is a dismal failure and is on the point of leaving school, but the commandant and his daughter Dorothy (Nancy Drexel), convince him ha should stay. The picture shows how ho wins his way through excelling in school athletics. Other films include the sixth chapter of “The Scarlet Arrow,” “Tee for Two” (comedy), British news and International news. THE OPERA HOUSE. “THE GIRL TN THE PULLMAN.” Spending. two weeks in a Pullman coach without going anywhere was the

novel experience of Marie Prevost during ths filming of her new De Mille starring picture, “The Girl in the Pullman,” which comes to the Opera House to-night. Much of the action of this laughable comedy takes place aboard a Pullman car, in which a bride and groom, an ex-husband, a former suitor, and a mother-in-law occupy compartments. . The story is complicated, but its development under the direction of Erie C. Kenton supplies numerous laughs. Harrison Ford plays opposite Marie Prevost, and the other featured players in the cast are Franklin Pangborn, Kathryn McGuire and Harry Myers. Supporting subjects will include a two-reel comedy, cartoon and two Pathe gazettes. The Opera House orchestra will provide the music.