ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1931, Page 11

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S.

DOUBLE-FEATURE BILL.

Two big all-talking pictures—both very enjoyable—are now being presented nightly at Everybody’s, New' Plymouth. Screening first. is the First National production, “Young Nowheres,” starring Richard Barthelmes's. In this picture he plays the role of an elevator boy in an apartment house whose romance with a wistful little chambermaid gets him into situations. Marian Nixon and Bert Roach a splendid supporting cast. The second attraction is “The Hottentot,’ 5 Warner Bros.’ comedy scream starring ' Edward Everett Horton. He enacts the rols of Sam Harrington, a scion of a wealthy family of the West who has extreme terror of horses. As luck will have - it, •he falls in love with a girl who is crazy about horses and horse racing. Posipg as a famous horseman, Horton finds himself in all kinds of ludicrous misbapg. • Harvey Thew adapted “The -Hottentot” from the stage hit of the same name by Victor Mapes and William Collier. Roy Del Ruth directed. The cast includes Patsy Ruth Miller, Edmund Breese, Otto Hoffmann, Stanley . Taylor, Maude Turner Gordon, Douglas Gerrard and'Edward Earle. A Fox Movietone News opens the programme. ' SATURDAY NEXT..' 'Coming to Everybody’s on- Saturday next are two of the finest British talking pictures yet produced. Not infrequently where a bill comprises more than one big feature, one picture is apt to.overshadow the other, with the result 'that the audience finds its enjoyment marred by a not very pleasing contrast. ‘ It is impossible, however, for this to be the case with this programme, for one is a comedy full of hearty laughter, the other a society drama brilliantly acted The first to be screened will be “Not So Quiet on the Western Front.”- It is a burlesque of war-time experiences. The characters are soldiers and French girls, but that is practically all this hilarious comedy has to do with the war. There . are some bright songs and dancing. England’s favourite comedian, Deslie Fuller, has the principal role, and he is well supported by a superlative company. The ' second picture, “Loose Ends,” from Dion Titheridge’s play, contains all the traditions of the stage, enhanced by the possibilities of the talking screen. So true ns that that it is-at-times difficult to .believe that'the actors are not actually on the stage. It is a controversial and original film, full of excellent entertainment and some food for thought. London, after the war, and one of the sets of “bright young people,” imbued .with very modern ideas about -marriage, and wishing to tear down the old. structures of society, is the setting into which comes a man who for 15 years had been cut off from , the world. How- and why he had been cut off furnishes ’ the main theme with its gripping interest, Famous iigiires,of the English.'stage and.screen, such as Owen Nares, Edna Best, Adrianne Allen, Miles Marider and Donald Cal thorp, for m the'cast. ;

v - ■' - THE RE.GENT, . . ‘ *". ‘ “THE LAUGHING LADY.” ' “The Laughing Lady”.laughed her way into the hearts of patrons at the Regent Theatre last night. She did a little fighting, too, with her laughing. Ruth Chatterton in the title role, was every bit the sterling actress she proved to be -in “Charming Sinners.” As the darling of society, who becomes innocently embroiled in a scandal which threatens to , ruin her social, standing, she gives a iportrayal which-stacks up neatly against ■'the same portraiture which Ethel Barry'riiore did with the part several seasons ago, in the original stage play by Alfred Sutro. Miss Chatterton laughs at those who had accused her,and plunges forcefully into her own well-planned battle against them, emerging the victor, with •a romantic conquest of Clive Brook, her erstwhile, enemy, to boot. After seeing this brilliant Paramount comedy-drama, one . realises why Miss Chatterton has such a. great fan following. Clive Brook I was splendid in the leading supporting ' role. The supports included Movietone News, “La Paloma” (bouncing ball song cartoon) and “His Worship-the Mayor” (comedy). This programme will’be repeated to-night and to-morrow night. ALE’S BUTTON COMING TO REGENT. BRITISH DOMINIONS FARCE. Just as there is. a serious side to the business of war, so there is a much more pleasant side. , This latter aspect is depicted in an extremely entertaining manner in the all-talking British Dominions’ farce, “Alf’s Button,” which comes to the Regent for a season of- three matinees and‘three nights, commencing Saturday ■ next. The commanding officer, the hereditary enemy of all soldiers, would naturally "figure in many sequences where two such “die hards” as Alf Higgins and Bill . Grant are concerned. You will not be disappointed; the officer does figure prominently, much to the discomfort of Bill and Alf. One particularly hilariops scene is the one in which Alf and Bill are ordered out of line to tidy themselves up a bit, and they succeed in . adding greatly to their untidiness by falling into a rather deep shell-hole of.ooze and mud. Alf,-in the course of cleaning his buttons, finds that by giving one of them a brisk rub a weird and wonderful “sppok” pops up. Yes, sir, a special “spook” commissioned to perform the wishes of Private Alf Higgins. Alf christens -his “spook” Eustace, and, incidentally, he finds his favourite expression —strike me pint—rather dangerous when Eustace is around. “Alf’s Button” is another particularly, fine British alltalkie attraction; and residents of this town will not be wasting time by paying a visit to the Regent Theatre during its local season.