ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1931, Page 11

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S. “COHENS AND KELLYS IN AFRICA” “The Cohens and Kellys in Africa,” now showing at Everybody's, New Plymouth, is a show not to be missed by those who enjoy hearty laughter. This riotous comedy introduces Cohen and Kelly a.s piano manufacturers whose business is at the point of .ruin because •of a shortage of real ivory for their piano keys. Meeting a pseudo-explorer who paints a glowing picture of veritable mountains of ivory in Africa, Cohen and Kelly decide to finance an expedition to the “Dark Continent” with the explorer, “Windjammer Thorn,” as leader. The inimitable comedians become involved in almost every conceivable tangle on their memorable expedition, including the loss of their wives. The screen pla/ follows their escapades from the time they leave the, boat at Jlom- , basa, over the veldt and through jungles, i until their departure from a sheik’s I harem for the United States. Charlie .Murray, George Sidney, Vera Gordon and. Kate Price are excellent as the principal members of the cast. The shorts include Universal News, Oswald Cartoon, “Zuyder .Zee’’ (Vagabond series) and “Ooh, La La”. (Slim Summerville comedy). THE REGENT. -. FINE BRITISH PICTURE. : That distinguished member of the thrill-and-shock drama, A. A. Milne’s .“The Perfect Alibi,” unfolded its stirring and ingenious mysteries -on .Saturday night at the Regent Theatre, New Plymouth, proving itself to be a crafty and adroitly . concocted melodrama. Directed by Basil Dean and made in England .for Radio Pictures, “The Perfect Alibi” has been guided on- to the screen with careful hands. A fine cast, including Warwick Ward, C. Aubrey Smith, Frank Lawton, Robert Loraine and Dorothy Boyd, makes of it an exciting and thrilling hour. It tells a story, of fashionable vengeance and murder, with the murderers known to you at all ’times; but its appeal to the mystery-loving mind is sustained always by the manipulation of the alibi and the subsequent'; discovery of the murderers. The shorts were high-class and included Paramount News, - “Circus Time” (cartoon), Audio Review, Pathe News and-“ Micky’s Bargain” (all-talking comedy). Screenings will be repeated- to-night and to-morrow night. . .