ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1930, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE KEGENT, NEV/ - PLYMOUTH. ' FAMILY NIGHT TO-NIGHT. Fox Movietone’s big racing-musical romance, “Song of Kentucky” will 1 be finally presented at the Regent, New Plymouth, to-night. Lois Moran, Joe Wagstaff and Dorothy Burgess head the cast in the great entertainment, which is just packed full of romance, music, songs, action and intrigue. The supporting programme includes Movietone Nevvs, “Interview” (Clark and McCullough comedy), Ruth Glanville (America’s premier, saxophonist) and “Syncopated Trial” (two-reel musical comedy). “Parade of the West” and “Crazy that Way,” two fine all-talking features, will both be presented on the change of programme commencing at the Regent tomorrow at 2 p.m. and 7.45 p.m. Ken Maynard is the star of “Parade of the West,” and is a spectacular tale woven around a “wild west show.” “Crazy that Way” is an amusing comedy starring Joan Bennett,. Kenneth McKenna, Jason Robards and Sharon Lynn. The story deals with a young girl and her peculiar ideas of courtship, love and marriage.

EVERYBODY’S TALKIES. “PARIS” MATINEE TO-DAY, 2 P.M. “Paris,” First National and Vitaphone all-talking, singing, .dancing, part-techni-colour production, will conclude its New Plymouth season at Everybody’s Talkies with a special matinee to-day at 2 p.m. and an evening session to-night commencing at 7.45. p.m. The supporting programme includes Fox Movietone News, Albert Spalding (world-famous violinist), “All in Fun” (comedy playlet) and Lynn Cowan (who leads the audience in community singing). England has produced a talking picture which has been acclaimed in the United States. This is the British Dominions Films all-talking subject, “Splinters,” which will commence a season of three matinees and three nights at Everybody’s Talkies to-morrow. “Splinters," as all soldiers who served in France during the Great War know so well, was the name given to the concert party which did so much, to keep up the spirits ff the Allied forces during the years cv checkmate in mud and snow. The very spirit of the British Tommy breathes in these fragments of humour, pathos, song and dance, which made a little oasis of forgetfulness in a dreary world of mud-monotony, and danger, and which helped so much to maintain the morale which won the war. That the show is first-class as an entertainment is clear from the fact that it has been running successfully in England for 11 years, and is going as strongly to-day as when the big guns were booming in France. It is probably the • first talking picture that has been womanless, but the production possesses plenty of what Elinor Glyn described as “It.”