ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1932, Page 13

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S, 10-DAY.

"DREYFUS” MATINEE. "Dreyfus,” a British picture with a cast of British actors, was given unstinted approval by a largo audience at Everybody’s, New Plymouth, last evening. Taking the picture strictly on its merits, the management is to be congratulated on its presentation of a true story of a. chapter in French history, which at tho time aroused enormous interest throughout tho world. Perhaps there are people in New Plymouth to-day who followed with interest the proceedings of the Dreyfus trial, when a captain in the French Army was banished to Devil’s Island. Apart from its historical value, “Dreyfus,” tho picture, will not be forgotten in a month, or in a year;—it will be remembered when other films have been forgotten. Tho supporting programme included Patho Gazette, “Feast of Harmony” (musical short), “Hosiery Manufacture” (interest) and “Anderella” (cartoon). Screenings will bo repeated to-night and to-morrow night and at matinees daily at 2 p.m. OPERA HOUSE, SATURDAY. “A FREE SOUL.” “A. Free Soul,” starring Norma. Shearer, will play a return season at the New Plymouth Opera House. The conflict of the plot is twofold, relating to the love of the heroine for two vastly different men, a gambler and a society sportsman, and her equally blinding devotion to a brilliant but habitually intoxicated father. The father has raised the girl with ideas of ultra-freedom, but when ho catches her in the arms of the notorious gambler he realises that he has been his daughter’s worst enemy. In an attempt to save her from what he knows will be an unhappy alliance he promises to give up -drinking. The events which follow make up a story that never lags for a moment, and has enough suspense and action for two pictures. The work of the supporting east is uniformly excellent. While the film is first and foremost bliss Shearer’s triumph, the next honours go to Lionel Barrymore. Splendid work is also done by Leslie Howard and Clark Gable. The shorts include Metrotone News and “Shiver My Timbers” (Our Gang comedy).

THE REGENT, TO-NIGHT. “PUTTIN.’ ON THE RITZ.” The Mad Hatter and the March Hare, the Red'Queen, the Walrus and the Carpenter, and all the other familiar characters of “Alice in Wonderland’’ have come to life on the talking screen at The Regent Theatre, New Plymouth. All of Lewis Carroll’s characters appear, in an elaborate technicolour scene in “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” Harry Richman’s starring picture for United Artists, which was directed by Edward Sloman. The fantasy is part of a revue staged for a sequence in which Richman is depicted as the star of a Broadway show. “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” a story of vaudeville and backstage Broadway, features a number of original songs by Irving Berlin, written especially for the picture. Joan Bennett plays the feminine lead opposite Richman, and the supporting cast includes Aileen Pringle, Lily an Tashman, James Gleason, Purnell I’ratt, Rmhard Tucker, Eddie Kane and others. The shorts include Pathe Gazette, “The Cactus Kid” (cartoon), Irish Fantasy (musical number), Australian Fox News and “Micky’s Follies” (Micky Mouse cartoon). There will be a matinee tomorrow at 2 p.m.