ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1930, Page 14

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S. “WOMAN TO WOMAN.” Romance and pathos abound in the stirring woman drama, which opened a three-night season at Everybody’s Talkies on Saturday night. The title of the film is “Woman to Woman.” It was directed by Victor Saville for TiffanyStahl, and was released by,Cinema Art Films. The story, though of the eternal triangle, is extremely unusual. It concerns a young English officer in France, who meets a beautiful dancer in a Montmartre cafe, Lola,- and falls in love with her. One morning he leaves her to get a parson to marry them, but he is taken by the military and rushed to the front line. He is” wounded in the head, and his memory leaves him. Six years later, he is in business, and lives with his wife, a cold beauty, whose interest in charity is greater than in him. One evening he goes to the theatre, where he sees Lola and remembers her by the song she sings. Then follows a series of complications which help to form one of the best talking pictures yet shown. The leading roles are played by Betty Compson, George Barraud and Juliette Compton. The supports include Fox Movietone News, Audio Review, Dale Smith (English baritone) and “Musical Moments” (interlude of song and dance.) “GOLD DIGGERS OF BROADWAY.” At Everybody’s Talkies, New Plymouth, commencing Wednesday next, the Warner Bros. 100 per cent, natural colo_ur, singing, talking and dancing Vitaphone J picture which has just created sensations in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, -will be screened. “Gold Diggers of Broadway” . stars Winnie Lightner, Conway Tearle, Ann Pennington, Nancy Wilford, Nick Lucas and hundreds of others. Nine big song hits are featured in the production, and already “Painting the Clouds with Sunshine” and “Tip-toe Thru the Tulips” are on everybody’s lips. This picture surpasses anything ever screened, and by a wide margin, as its colour photography is the nearest to perfection yet. Box plan arrangements are advertised in this issue, and there will be two performances daily, commencing at 2 p.m. and 7.45 p.m. THE REGENT. “FLIGHT” IS MARVELLOUS. , “Flight,” 1 which commenced a threenight “season' at the Regent, New Plymouth, on Saturday night, is easily one of the finest all-talking productions the audible screen has yet presented. Never before have laughs and thrills been presented in such bewildering manner, and never before has a picture presented such delightful romance. The characters talk all through, and their dialogue, good dialogue, is with the picture all...the time. There is a combination of interests in this picture which make it unusual. There is the humour of the United States Marine Air Force, .which has, in common with all military bodies the world over, the merit that it is quick and to the point. There is the love of two men for one woman, and their love for each other, which the first cannot break. There is the intense excitement of combat, the rather pathetic, but wholly wonderful bravery, shown in a hopeless position. There is the wonderful stunt flying, and the peerless photography. Jack Holt, Ralph Graves and Lila Lee are the featured players. A Fox Movietone New? opens the programme. BIG BRITISH TALKIE. “UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.” More than usual interest will surround the screening of the British attraction “Under the Greenwood Tree” at the Regent on Wednesday next, as this picture has revolutionised the British talking picture industry, and even drew unstinted praise from American reviewers when it was screened on Broadway, New York. “Under the Greenwood Tree” is an all-dialogue screen version or Thomas Hardy’s classic novel of the. same name. It stars two young Britishers’, Marguerite Allan and John Batten, •in a picturesque comedy drama of old Wessex. The story concerns the Mellstock village instrumental choir, whose reign as leading musical lights in the village is threatened by the invention of the organ. A beautiful romance against rustic surroundings is supplied by the youthful leader of the band, and" the pretty schoolmistress, who volunteers to play the organ. The picture was directed by Harry Lachman, and released by Cinema Art Films.