ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1932, Page 13

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. FAMILY NIGHT TO-NIGHT, “Kiki,” United Artists’ comedy , production starring Mary Pickford, will be finally screened at the Opera House tonight. It is modern, fast, funny and exhilarating from start to finish. Miss Pickford has an innocent wild abandon, a hoydenish quality, recklessness and impulsiveness and madcap charm. She falls in love with Reginald Denny, who cannot get along with a woman and cannot get along without one. He has been divorced from one, Margaret Livingston, and she is using all her feminine power to lure him back, meanwhile carrying on something of an affair with a tenor. “Kiki” has a high quality comedy cast, every member of which has headlined in laughter. Denny makes an excellent leading man for Miss Pickiord. The shorts include Pathe Magazine, “Frolicking Fish” (cartoon), Universal ■News and '‘Egyptian Melodies” (cartoon) . EVERYBODY’S. “PERSONAL MAID.” Most people are paid for what they know, but a personal maid is paid for what she knows how to keep quiet about, says Grace Perkins, the sensational new writer who has delved behind the modern scenes to bring ‘‘Personal Maid” to the reading and moviegoing public. “Personal Maid” will commence a three-night season at Everybody’s to-night with Nancy Carroll m the role of the red-headed Nora Ryan. Miss Carroll, in this, her first, starring Paramount picture since “Night .Angel,” is ably supported by Pat O’Brien, brilliant young stage actor; Gene Raymond, known to Broadway as Raymond Guion; the jolly old character player, George Fawcett, and Mary Boland. The supporting programme will include Australian Fox News, “No More Hockey” (trio), Paramount British News, “My Wife’s Gone to the Country” (screen song), and “The Lease Breakers” (comedy'). A matinee will be held to-morrow afternoon at two o’clock. THE REGENT. MATINEE TO-DAY, 2 P.M. “Smart Money” and “Big Business Girl,” a Warner Bros. First National two-star programme will commence a season at The Regent to-day at 2 p.m. and to-night at 8. “Smart Money” deals with the rise 'And fall of a top-notch gambler in New York. Edward G. Robinson, Evelyn Knapp and James Cagney head the cast. Whether a captivating manner or penetrating business acumen is the greater attribute of the modern stenographer is debated in lively fashion in “Big Business Girl.” Loretta Young, the demurely charming actress of innumerable films, notably “The Devil to Pay,” gives a completely winning portrayal of the title role. She appears as a young married typist© in a publicity office whose solicitous husband misconstrues her relationship with her employer. Frank Albertson acts with boyish freshness in the part of the husband, a struggling orchestra conductor. INGLEWOOD PICTURES. “HELL’S ANGELS” SPECTACLE. Howard Hughes is the man who made “Hell’s Angels.” He utilised the services of '20,000 'people and spent a million sterling. The picture took three years to complete. The picture will be shown at Inglewood to-night and to-morrow night. Nothing was "faked —authorities on war-time aviation agree that it is not only the most authentic air film to date, but is also one of the greatest achievements in the history of aeronautics as well. Eighty-seven aeroplanes, plus a bombing plane and a Zeppelin, were employed for the aeroplane warfare scenes, and these were manned by a total of 137 daredevil aviators. There never was anything like it! There never will be anything like it! The breathtaking magnitude of “Hell’s Angels” can never be surpassed. It justifies the extraordinary time occupied on its completion and the vast sums of money spent on it in the sheer opulence of its aerial photography. “Hell’s Angels” is the sensation of England and America, where unprecedented crowds are storming the theatres at every performance, shattering the records of every theatre wherever it is shown.