ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1931, Page 13

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S. Brimful of sparkling comedy, the pro gramme which was presented at Everybody’s on Saturday established itself as a warm favourite with a highly appreciative audience. Always popular, William Haines , has seldom been seen to better advantage than in “The TailorMade Man,” and the. humour he provided was delightful. This picture breaks away from the usual nur one is accustomed to, and a east of firstclass comedians,.as it possesses, is rarely seen on the same sheet. The part enacted by (Mr.. Haines shows how ambition raised a young man from “pressing pants” to a high executive position, and the ludicrous experience he has in attaining it cannot help but make anyone chuckle. Dorothy Jordan and Joseph Cawthorn were excellent in the principal supporting roles. The supporting programme . included ‘‘Let’s Do Things’* (Zazu Pitts comedy), Paramount British Ne,ws, Micky the Mouse cartoon, Pathe Magazine and Metrotone News. Several scenes of the New Zealand cricketers’ first match in England are presented in the Metrotone News. Screenings will be repeated tonight and to-morrow night, and at a special mat!r®?e to-morrow at 2 p.m.

THE REGENT. The scenes of • “The Boudoir Diplomat,” now showing nightly at the Regent, are laid in a European kingdom, and the story deals with the involved love affairs of a nobleman who is attached to an embassy in the capital city. This Baron Valmi, a philandering bachelor, is already deep in an affair with Helene, wife of the. ambassador, his superior in the diplomatic service. And the unsuspecting ambassador, as a means of influencing an important decision of the War Minister, instructs Valmi to lavish his customary passionate wooing on the person of Mona, pretty wife of the Cabinet official. Since the artistic Valmi makes a practice of painting a nude miniature of each new flame, Helene’s jealousy is aroused, and she appropriates the undraped little painting already made of herself, intent on showing it io her husband and thus bringing down his rage on the head of the inconstant bachelor The leading roles are excellently portrayed by lan Keith, Betty Compson, Mary Dunean and Lionell Belmore. A splendid supporting programme is headed by “‘Hot and Bothered” (Charlie MurrayGeo. Sidney comedy).