ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1932, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE REGENT. "LET’S GO NATIVE." '’Let’s Go Native,” Paramount’s tropical, topical, farcical frivolity, starring Jeanette MacDonald, James Hall and Jack Oakie, will commence a. three-night season at the Regent to-night. “Let’s Go Native” has plot and action —it moves from a modiste’s salon, in New York to the streets of the same city, to a big coastwise steamer, to an island in the tropics, to a private yacht. There is a central love affair between Miss MacDonald and Hall; there is a secondary love affair between Oakie and Miss Kay Francis; there is the menace supplied from several sources. But plot and action are of little consequence in. the welter of laughs and roars that pitches and tosses this splendid show along to one grand hilarious tidal-wave finale. The shorts will include Universal News, "Radio Riot” (cartoon), “.Simply Killing” (sketch), Paramount Pictorial, “New Rhythm” (musical numbers) and “By Appointment” (comedy). EVERYBODY’S TO-NIGHT. “DOCTORS’ WIVES. “Doctors’ Wives,” a highly successful Fox Movietone attraction starring Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett, will commence a three-night season at Everybody’s to-night. Briefly, the story concerns the marriage of a doctor’s daughter with bhe most promising young surgeon in New York. The marriage runs adrift on. the waters of jealousy and suspicion when Joan Bennett, as the naive and idealistic wife, falls prey to the saying common to doctors’ wives that “the patient is the common enemy of every doctor’s wife.” Following the discovery of another woman in her lius- ■ bands consultation rooms, Joan leaves home and goes to that of “Dr. Kaye Ruyter,” played by Victor Varconi. Realising this is not what she wanted, she assumes another name and goes into training as -a nurse. How she finally learns of her misjudgment of her husband, and to believe in the greatness of his sacrifice for humanitarian service, completes the story which is said to be the screen’s most realistic effort to date. The shorts will include Fox Movieton News, “French Kisses” (comedy) and Australian Fox News. OPERA HOUSE. “EAST OF BORNEO.” Great popularity continues to be enjoyed by “East of Borneo,” the astbnishingly realistic jungle drama showing at the Opera House again to-night and finally to-morrow night. The succession of engrossing scenes of savagery among man and beast are not employed, however, merely for their intrinsic interest, but more particularly as a vivid and exotic background for a vital story of love and hate. Among the most amazing scenes are a hand to claw conflict between a terrified native and a ferocious leopard which ends by man and beast falling from a native raft into the crocodile-infested river; and the sinuous progress of a tremendous cobra as it draws itself along the sleeping forms of unknowing natives. The three principal characters are played by Rose Hobart, as the repentant divorced wife of a drink-sodden physician; Charles Bickford, and Charles Renevent, who is appropriately sinister as a ruthless Oriental potentate. There is a fine supporting' programme. There will be a matinee at Everybody’s to-morrow (Thursday) at 2 p.m.