ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1930, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S TALKIES. MATINEE TO-DAY, 2 P.M. Two big all-talking features will head the big change of programme at Everybody’s . Talkies, New. Plymouth, commencing to-day at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. The first picture to be screened will be “Skinner’s Steps Out.” The story is about “William Henry Skinner,” who is a hero to his wife and an ineffectual wage slave at the office. How his adoring young wife, through her belief in him, finally fires him with self-confidence and aggressiveness, furnishes material for comic situations of the highest order. Glenn Tryon and Merna Kennedy are starred, and many popular players support them, “The Flying Fool,” the second attraction, is the story of a stunt flyer whose weakness, is women. “Weakness” is probably a misomer, because women are really .his .strong poipt. He believes, however, in finding them, fooling them and forgetting them. Then he meets a cabaret singer who “crabs his style.” William Boyd plays the aerial dare-devil, and it is a role in which he scores a tremendous hit. Marie Prevost is the cabaret girl. Others in the cast are Tom O’Brien, Russell Gleason, Dan Wolheim. Kate Bruce and Dorothy Ward. There will be a Universal Talking News to open.

THE REGENT. BIG MATINEE TO-DAY, 2 P.M. ! Raoul Walsh’s most recent directorial effort, “The Cock Eyed World,” commencing aii extended season at the Regent, New Plymouth, to-day at 2 p.m., and to-night at 8 "p.m., is- an all-talk-ing Fox Movietone picture that offers first-rate entertainment with special vocal and instrumental specialties. This picture emphasises Walsh’s versatility. In fact, we believe it to be one of the season’s, outstanding productions. Its keynote .is the continual battle, between Flagg and Quirt, of “What Price Glory” fdme. Their love affairs provoke a series of laughs, in fact, some of the situations, were so amusing that the audience howled. There is a consistent balance of pathos and well-sustained tensely human situations. It is playing at the Regent Theatre al Ithis week it is a production one should 1 not niiss. Laurence Stallings and Maxwell 'Anderson, who co-authored “What Price Glory,” are responsible for this picture. Billy K. Wells scored a triumph with the dialogue lie wrote. And, of course, our ;old friends Vic; McLaglen and Ed. Lowe are Flagg and Quirt respectively. You enjoythem more in this production than you did in “Glory” because you hear everything that this colourful pair of “leathernecks” say about each .other, and’ just leave it to a pair of hard-boiled marines to wisecrack. Sparkling Lily Damita is the charmer who intrigues them in the tropics; Lelia Karnelly makes', life sweet for them .in, Russia; and Jean'Bary has the boys fighting over her in Coney Island. Assuredly, “The Cock Eyed World” is one picture you must see. A Fax Movietone News will open the programme.

NEW PLYMOUTH'OPERA HOUSE. CLARA BOW IN “THE FLEET’S IN.” What do sailor boys do when on shore leave ? What do they do the minute they touch shore after a long routine cruise at sea? -The answer to this unwritten history can be seen in Paramount’s special production “The Fleet’s In,” which shows at the New Plymouth Opera House to-nigh-t. Vivacious Clara Bow plays . the chief role, and critics have said it is undoubtedly the best characterisation she has ever done. Miss Bow is cast as a dance half hostess, whose duty it is to encourage the sailors on shore leave to spend as much of their month’s pay for dance tickets as possible. It is during the visit of the fleet to her 1 town that; she becomes the rivalry between two sailors from :the same battleship. These parts are essayed by James Hall, a popular Paramount leading man, and Jack Oakie, a newcomer to the screen,- - but none the less adequate for the role. How the story develops and resolves itself into a sensational climax will long be remembered by all who see it. No person, young or old, should miss seeing this screamingly funny production; to do so would be to cast away real wealth of mind and spirit. The supporting programme will include Paramount. Overseas News, Australian Gazette, Inkwell Jinks Cartoon, “Steelworks (educational), “The Sock Exchange” (two-reel comedy) and the Opera House Orchestra.

WAITARA TALKIES. ' “BIG TIME” TO-DAY. In “Big Time,” the Fox Movietone all-talking screen drama which un.Jds the heartbreaks, triumphs and joys behind the Fcc.iej of a vaudc ille theatre, Stepin Fete. I )it e.'-tets his test ani funniest role since his inim .able characterisation of “Guininv” n “Hearts in Dixie.” .Stepin portrays the character of “Eli,” keeper of rhe seals which are trained by “.Sybil,’ a rue that gives Daphne Pollard, the well known comedienne, an opporcuuttv for creating laughs. Lee Tracy a d Mao Clarke, both recently prominent on Broadway, are entrusted with the leading roles in this backstage romance, which will be screened at the Theatre Royal, War tara, to-day at 2 and 8 p.m, Tracy appears as “Eddie Burns,” a small time hoofer with an overdeveloped sense of his own importance, who is taught a lesson in humility of which ho was so much in need. • Miss Clarke .enacts the role of the wife, who, thougn deserted, never ceases to love him, an.l who admu -tv. s the p-.-.ni-Ling education that brings the egotistical song , mid dance man co a point where lie -era nimsclf in his own true I’ght