ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1932, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S.

MATINEE TO-DAY 2 P-M.

“How He Lied to Her Husband” and “Uneasy Virtue,”, a British double star programme, will be presented at Everybody’s, New Plymouth, to-day at 2 p.m. and to-night and Tuesday night at 8 p.m. “How He Lied to Her Husband is by George Bernard Shaw. This is full of all the usual Shaw wit and surprise situations and the dialogue is most daring and clever. It concerns a middleaged husband and wife and a young poet who is passionately in love with the wife. The end is so surprising as to take one’s breath away. The production itself was superintended by Bernard- Shaw. An excellent cast is headed by Edmund Gwenson. Adapted from the story by Harrison Owen, “Uneasy . Virtue” is" about a husband (Bill) who most imprudently proclaims that his wife is the “soul of fidelity.” This statement is a deliberate challenge to his wife, Dot, who sets out, at a country house party, to vindicate her charm by accepting an invitation to a tete-a-tete with Harvey, a notorious flirt, in ail unoccupied room from which there is “a wonderful view of the Downs.” Edmund Brear, Margot Grahame, Donald Calthrop and Dodo Watts head the cast. The shorts will include Universal News, “Nine Nights in a Bar Room” (comedy) and “Getting on the Green” (Johnny Farrell golf short). THE REGENT. MATINEE 2 P.M. TO-DAY. “Wicked,” starring Elissa Landi, Victor McLaglen and Una Merkel, will screen at The Regent, New Plymouth, to-day at 2 and 8 p.m. and Tuesday night at 8. Elissa Landi, beautiful and extraordinarily talented, gives a magnificent performance; McLaglen is his usual fine self; Una Merkel is better than ever; and the rest of a really good cast do excellent work. The story of “Wicked” is of a most unusual kind, and in the film itself there is something for everybody. The director was Allan Dwan, who must surely be one of the greatest in America. The picture is practically flawless, and the plot is unfolded with intelligence, ease and consummate artistry. It is strong stuff, but never overdone. Picture-goers can be urged in all sincerity .not to miss this wonderful film. Supporting short subjects will include Fox Movietone News, “Geisha Girls Get Gay” (interest), episode five of “Heroes of the Flames,” and “The Lone Starved Ranger” (comedy). OPERA HOUSE. “BIG TRAIL” MATINEE. “The Big Trail,” a Fox Movietone super production, will be screened at the Opera House, New Plymouth, to-day at 2 p.m. and to-night at 8. The picture opens with the start of a pioneer waggon train westward, and re-creates a series of stirring episodes, including the fording of the turbulent Snake River in Wyoming, bogging down of the train in a desert mudhole, a massacre in which hundreds of real Indians participate, a buffalo stampede and the lowering of waggons, equipment and humans down the aide of a precipitous cliff. A compelling love story runs throughout the film and serves to establish Marguerite Churchill as an actress of the first magnitude. It also introduces a talented newcomer to the screen in the person of John Wayne. Both of these youngsters turn in'finished performances. Tyrone Power’s menacing bull whacker likewise will be hard to forget. Other memorable characterisations are enacted by Tully Marshall, David Rollins and.El Brendel. The shorts will include Fox Movietone Neus, end “Getting on the Green” (Johnny Farrell golf short).