ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE.

MATINEE TO-DAY, 2 P.M,

Filled with mad waggery, riotous fun and delirious nonsense, “The Cuckoos,’ Radio's comedy sensation, will be shown at the New Plymouth Opera House today at a matinee at .2 p.m. and tonight at 8. “The Cuckoos” is not a musical revue. It is a full-length production based oh a well-developed plot, with comedy holding away. Gorgeously produced, with scenes in technicolour, “The Cuckoos” stands alone as a brandnew type of screen ’entertainment. It is an extravaganza of delirious nonsense, starring- f e mad wags of “Rio Rita” fa,me,. Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey,- and boasting a notable cast of featured players. Wheeler and Woolsey, who scored sensationally in their first picture, “Rio Rita,” .carry practically all the action of . “The Cuckoos. ’ They frolic madly through the broadcast of comedy which is said to be the most amusing of its kind ever brought to pictures. They are assisted materially by Dorothy Lee, also a featured player in “Rio Rita,’’ and Jobyna Howland, a new find for pictures. The sup-, porting programme will include Paths News, George Ludlow and his Band (musical short) and “Hot Bridge” (alltalking, comedy).. • ■-

THE REGENT

BRITISH MATINEE 2 P.M.

“The Perfect Alibi,” Mr. A. A. -Milne's famous mystery drama which scored a two-seasons’ stage triumph, will head the programme commencing at The Regent, New Plymouth, to-monow at 2 and 7.45 p.m. Perfect, yes! Dream of all evaders of justice, but almost generally impossible. Milne, master of drama and one of England’s foremost writers, shows in this suspense-filled melodrama, how inescapable is the penalty for crime. Planned craftily, performed with genius-like care, with no step uncovered, one of the most startling and chilling crimes succe/ds. There seems to be no loophole for discovery. Yet discovery takes place. Ther is never the perfect alibi. In the cast are such noted English players as C. Aubrey Smith, seen here in Marion Davies’ production of “The Bachelor Fath Warwick Ward, Robert Loraine, Dorothy •Boyd and Frank Law ton. Basil Dean, noted director, adapted an produced “The Perfect Alibi” as a 100 per cent. British talking picture. The shorts will include Paramount News, “Toby in Circus Time” (cartoon), Audio Review, “Micky’s Bargain’’ (comedy) and Pathe News.

EVERYBODY’S.

MATINEE TO-DAY, 2 P.M.

“The Cohens and Kellys in Africa.” starring Charlie Murray, George Sidney, Vera Gordon and Kate Price, will commence an all-laughing season st Everybody’s, New Plymouth, to-day at 2 and 7.45. If" their adventures and antics in Atlantic City, . Paris and Scotland were funny, their escapades in Africa arc to be considered a perfect riot. Cohen and Kelly, whose perpetual arguments are screamingly funn cannot fail to agree that their piano manufacturing business is in a serious depression because of a shortage of ivory for the keys. In desperation, they decide to go to Africa on an ivory expedition under the leadership of Windjammer Thorn, a fake explorer. Mrs. Cohen and Mrs. Kelly, not to be left behind, accompany their husbands into the wilds of the “Dark Continent.” The w'ives are captured by a roving band of Arabians, and placed in the sheik's harem. Cohen and Kelly have the misfortune of falling into the hands of a tribe of cannibals. How their serious predicaments are finally untangled will give you the laughs of a lifetime. The supports will include Universal News, “In Alaska” (Oswald cartoon), “Ooh. La La” (Slim Summerville comedy; and “Zuyder Zee” (Vagabond scries).

NEW THEATRE, OPUNAKE. Galsworthy’s “old English”. “Old- English,” the Galsworthy play which proved So tremendously popular when played on the stage by George Arliss and which has’.been : made into a Warner Bros, and Vitaphpne picture, will open a three-night season at the New Theatre, Opunake, on Monday. “Old English”-can be best cohipared to the epochal “Disraeli,” which introduced the genius ofArliss to'the talking-pic-ture world. “Old,, English” i- considered to foe hie finest characterisation. In “Old Mr.' Arliss has the part of a exacting old man of 84, who, despite all his eccentricities, has a heart of gold and a brain as active as that of a young man of 20. He is a gay old rogue, who sees to his family’s welfare with a cunning that woRId do credit to a master politician. If one sought the world over one could not find one .person more suitable fd”< the lead in this John Galsworthy play.' His characterisation of the delightful old rogue is absolutely to life. A distinguished cast supports Mr. Arliss in “Old English,” including Ivan' Simpson, Doris Lloyd,. Betty Lawford, Leon Janney, Harrington Reynolds, Reginald Sheffield, Murray Kinnell, Ethel Griffies and Henrietta Goodman.