ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1930, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S. MONSTER MATINEE TO-DAY 2 P.M. •Patrons young anff old will be interested to hear Harold Lloyd's first talking < picture, . “Welcome Danger,” which J commences a season at Everybody’s, New ■ Plymouth, at a monster matinee to-day J at 2 p.m. and at the evening session at ] 8 o’clock. Judging by advance reports, * they will not be dissatisfied by the en- < tertainment provided. “Welcome Danger” • relates a story, that with but a few ( twists, could have been developed into- < a thriller of the first water. Lloyd re- s tains the thrill elements, the mystery J and the romance of the drama, but adds J laugh after laugh to the story by little. J twists of his own. “Welcome Danger” s relates the experiences of a boy whose ] avocation is botany, and who suddenly < finds himself a detective in underground 1 Chinatown trying to outwit wily Chinese 1 w r ho have baffled the police of San Fran- i cisco. , Lloyd portrays the son qf a a fambus Golden Gate police officer, who t passes on, assuming he has left the j world a legacy in the form of a great c law-enforcing son. Harold preferis toy- t ing with flowers to chasing law break- 1 ers, but when his father’s old friends • call on him for assistance, he readily assents, with results that are highly humorous for the audience. Barbara Kent is leading lady. The supporting programme will include “Dark Eyes”] i

(vocal novelty) and “He Loved the L’diee” (talking comedy). THE REGENT. HOOT MATINEE TO-DAY. “Roaring Ranch,” Hoot Gibson’s latest all-talking picture, will be"the main attraction on the matinee programme at The Regent, New Plymouth, this after-no^-a commencing at 2 p.m. A fine supporting programme will include Universal Talking News, “Live Ghosts” (comedy) and “Use Your Feet” (comedy). Two all-talking features will be screened at The Regent Theatre to-night. Hoot Gibson in “Roaring Ranch” will be shown first. “Roaring Ranch” is one of Hoot’s' best and tells a story full of humour, fights and. conspiracies. Sally Eilers and Wheelem Oakman head the supporting cast. “Half Marriage” stars popular Olive Borden and a supporting cast including Sally Blane and Mwgan Farley. Adventure comes aplenty to M’-s Borden in her latest screen achievement. It is her first all-talker, and the web she weaves around herself in trying to keep her marriage to a poorly paid young architect a secret enmeshes both of them in what looks, like a murder until the truth conies out. A Universal Talking News will open the programme. INGLEWOOD TALKIES. ■ Three western bad men found themselves custodians of a new born child

in the midst of the desert. They had. promised the dying mother they would take the child safely to the little frontier town of New. Jerusalem. Their water is low, a frightful trip across the desert confronts them and tho law awaits, them for a bank hold-up if they reach their destiny. This is the central dramatic situation of Universal’s thrilling drama, ‘‘Three Godfathers,” which is showing at the Town (Hall to-night.