ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1931, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE, THURSDAY. DANCE RECITAL AND TALKIES. Dance lovers should avail themselves of the opportunity of seeing the varied display to be offered by the pupils of Mona Kirwin in the New Plymouth Opera House on Thursday next. The numbers are clever and attractive, and combined with pretty frocking and soft lights will make a pretty picture. The repertoire includes character, toe, aerobatic, adagio and classic numbers, also two ballets, “Hula Maidens” and “Grasshoppers at Play.” Names of those appearing in the recital are as follow: Vola Watson, Jean Fyfe, Beverley Fyfe, Ngaio Parkes, Allison McCullough, Sonia Oldridge, Gladys Lay, Margaret Sheppard, Thea McCullough, Evelyn Cartright, Eileen Hill, Ena Cartright, Phyllis Tate, Elvra Crawshaw, Violet Hurle, Essie Stevens, Irene Gilbert and Mona Kirwin. In addition to the dance recital there will be the Fox Movietone all-talking special, “The Girl from Havana,” starring Paul Page and Lola Lane. Box plan arrangements are advertised in this issue.

THE REGENT. “Rough Romance,” Fox Movietone alltalking thriller, will again be shown at the Regent to-night and finally to-mor-row night. Patrons arc advised not to be misled by the title “Rough Romance,” It may not sound much, but it is really a line picture. There is a varied supporting bill. ‘ 1 “DIXIANA,” WEDNESDAY. “Dixiana,” Radio picture’s big successor to “Rio Rita,” will commence a threenight season at the Regent on Wednesday next. It lias a cast that includes Bebe Daniels, Everett AlarshaJ! (noted Opera baritone), Robert Alarshall, Bert Wheeler and Dorothy Lee. Woolsey and Wheeler were the famous comedians of “The Cuckoos.” “Dixiana,” which is filmed partly in gorgeous technicolour. presents a story of gaiety and charm, romance and drama, passion and tragedies. Song numbers include “Love is Like a Song,” “A Tear, a Kiss, a Smile,” “My Guiding Star,” “Dixiana,” “My One Ambition is You” and “Air. and Airs. S.ippi.” OPERA HOUSE, TO-NIGHT. HAROLD LLOYD TALKIE. When better thrills are made Harold Lloyd makes them in “Feet First,” his second all-talking comedy, commencing at the New Plymouth Opera House tonight. For Harold was thinking of “'Safety Last” when he made "Feet First.” “Safety Last” was the greatest thriller that the spectacled genius of mirth-and-gasps ever made. In it he Was seen climbing about, falling and catching himself just in time, on the roof-edges and cornices of sky-scrapers. “Feet First” has thrills in it just like that, only more so, Harold is seen as au ambitious young apprentice shoe clerk who, in his effort to make good with his employer, gets into alj kinds of humorous 'situations —putting gunboat sized shoes on the cute tootsies of his employer’s wife; crashing a society ball in order to impress a young lady he falls in love with; finding himself aboard a trans-Pacific steamer without a ticket; hiding in a mail bag, only to be picked up and carried with the mail on a ship-to-shorc aeroplane, and finally landing on a painter’s scaffolding in mid-air, wrapped up in the mail bag. Then follow those hair-raising thrills which are so typically Lloyd. Barbara Kent is leading lady. The shorts will include Paramount Pictorial, “I’d Climb the Highest Alountain” (bouncing ball cartoon) and “Tlfc African Dodger” (comedy). Parents are requested to note that Harold Lloyd after-school matinees will be held at Everybody's to-morrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday at 3.30 p.m. EVERYBODY’S. “Escape,” the thrilling British alltalking drama which commenced at Everybody’s, New Plymouth, on Saturday, "will be screened again to-night and to-morrow night. Sir Gerald du Alaurier is starred, and he is ably supported by Edna Best and Alabel Poulton. The supports are interesting and varied. “DAWN PATROL” WEDNESDAY. “The Dawn Patron,” coming to Everybody’s on Wednesday next, has been acclaimed everywhere as a triumph of the talkies. Richard Barthelmess (recently hero in “.Son of the Gods”) is the star. “The Dawn Patrol” was directed by Howard Hawks and is the first picture in which Barthelmess appears mifius a leading lady. ' The story is heralded as the most dramatic Barthelmess vehicle since “Tol’ablc David.” It is a dramatic story concerning the adventures of a group of British flyers in the early years of the World War who are forced to face the better-equip-ped Germans with antiquated planes and machine guns. The cast includes Douglas Fairbanks, jun., Neil Hamilton, Clyde Cook, Gardiner James, James Finlayson, lllmund Breon, Frank AlcHugh, and others. '