ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1930, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODYS. F AMILY NIGHT TO-NIGHT. ' > -'', - ■ : A ’ ' ; : '’Y -..: / ’. i- - Mirth and merriment in large quantities feature “Let’s Go Places/’ : v Fox Movietone musical extravaganza which ,is - ■ finally screening at Everybody’s to-night. Several spectacular ballet, numbers and, ( a backgroundtof Hollywood: show, spots, as' well' as £ts ’ irresistible- -songs, are • ■ also responsible for much- of the film’s popularity. Joseph . Wagstaff- and. Lola . Lane.- enact important roles in this ep- : , ; tertanjing, story, and .'Shayon, .Lynn,-, Frank Richardson and Dixie . Lee head a.fine -supporting'cast.'There is a good, supporting (programme. - . . ■ ; COMMENCING TO-MORROW. , “ All of. the fun/ romance and, daring . ’ horsemanship that is, to ,be found il| .the cavalry will be seen in “Troopers.Three/a Tiffany all-talking -picture- commencing. at Everybody’s to-morrow at a fpe- . ciat matinee at- 2 p.m. and at the evening’ session at 8 . p.m. , Rex Lease, ißblfcoe'. Karns,. Slim Summerville and Dorothy Gulliver head J the' cast of ■ “Trapp- . ers Three,” which- isan original'story by Arthur Guy Empey.The story tell? qf ithree.y.oung, men; they ; we-re "entering a training camp, but , found they had enlisted in t,he cavalry for three years. ‘ What hapeppcd- was a-plenty. There, was-a girl, of course—the daughter of,a_first sergeant., ; Her . 'dad Was hard-boiled, but- she' w?s sqfthearted. .■. \- ■ , ?.. . '’ l , . ' . 1 the regent; ’■ i “Song ofthe West ” all-tolking.sjng-ing technicolour romance, of-the-Golden . West, will be finally presented at the Regent to-niglit. John Boles, Vivienne Segal and Joe *E. - Brown head a cas of hundreds an this, the. la test sensation , of the talking screen. 1 commencing to-morrow. “The Three Sisters,” Fox Movietone aWtalking production, will head the new , programme commencing at tne Regent to-morrow at a' matinee at 2 p.m. and . in the evening at 8 p.m. The story is an intensely human and appealing one. Mhrta (& iss Dresser) and her three daughters are living in a village in Northern Italy just before, the outbreak! ..; of the-war. One daughter-leaves herto become a-Viennese prima donna, one flees the’ country because of a stabbing affray ’in defending her , mother, the third dies in childbirth’during the Austrian advance, ’ and when ■ Marta chastens to ..Rome with the .baby an enemy has the child taken’ from her. The gravelling of.the plot; is handled-’with notable skill, and the restorationof - the . lonely and discouraged motheri to ' happiness provides • splendid entertainment.. Joyce - Compton, Kenneth McKenna . and June Collyer' head’ the - supporting cast. INGLEWOOD, TALKIES. ,‘; L . : “MEXICALI ROSE.” ,• 1 ' “Mexicali Rose,” the Columbia .Mfl* talking, picture- opening’ at 'the Town Hall to-morrow night, is a film overwhelming in its. dramatic intensity, stirring. .action, .and. suspensive moments. The plot,is built around,“Happy Manning, owner- of .a gay gambling dive. He leads a double life. “Happy’s : affections are divided between two persons—his -young brother, Bob, and his, sweetheart, “Mexicali Rose.” Bob-knows, nothing of the existence of Rose) but Rose knows all about Bob. and .“Happy’s” devotion to-him. ' The outcome, of this is that the gambler, catching the girl in an-infidel- , ity drives her from the resort one nigm. She avenges herself by spreading her net tor Bob and luring him into marriage.