ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1932, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S.

MATINEE 2 P.M. TO-DAY.

“The Cuban Love Song,” starring Lawrence Tibbett, of “New Moon” fame, wil conclude its season at Everybody’s today at a matinee at 2 p.m., and tonight at 7.45. There is a high class supporting programme.

COMMENCING TO-MORROW.

When one intends reading a Rex Beach novel one expects a powerful story, and his “Young Brother” is no exception to the rule. Radio Pictures has adapted this popular novel into a powerful film story entitled “Young Donovan’s Kid,” and it conies to Everybody’s to-morrow at 2 and 7.45 p.m. In keeping with the picture, a strong cast has been chosen, each member playing his or her part to perfection. Richard Dix, in the role of Jim Donovan, a New York gang leader, supersedes all past performances, and the ease with which he portrays every human emotion stamps him as a master actor. Jackie Cooper and Marion Schilling are the other important members of the cast.

THE REGENT.

FAMILY NIGHT TO-NIGHT.

“Touchdown” and “His Woman,” the Paramount double-star programme, will be finally screened at the Regent tonight. Children are requested to note that “Captured by Redskins,” chapter one of “Battling with Buffalo Bill,” will be screened to-night. The story deals with the stirring adventures of the fighting pioneers. “Battling with Buffalo Bill” will only be screened on Friday nights (family night) and Saturday afternoons. COMMENCING TO-MORROW. “A House Divided,” the Universal production which has been highly praised by all the leading film critics, will commence a season at the Regent to-mor-row at 2 and 7.45 p.m. Walter Huston, Helen Chandler and Kent Douglass play the featured roles in this story of a rugged life and love on the North Pacific coast, which presents the intriguing situation of a young man falling in love with the new “mail-order bride” of his father. The events which follow the father’s discovery of this state of affairs are said to be filled with excitement and dramatic intensity. A varied supporting programme will include a Daphne Pollard comedy.

OPERA HOUSE TO-MORROW.

“MERELY MARY ANN.”

“Merely Mary Ann,” Fox’ Movietone’s beautiful romance starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, will play a return season at the New Plymouth Opera House to-morrow (Saturday) at 2 and 8 p.m. Miss Gaynor is more wistful and charming than ever as the repressed little maid-of-all-work in the dingy London rooming house, who shyly falls in love with the clever but impecunious composer, played by Charles Farrell—his best talking picture performance. Their delightful romance, with its vivid moments of sheer pathos, is ; one of the most appealing stories ever to reach the speaking screen, and Director King has handled it to perfection, touching just the right note throughout. Beryl Mercer as the shrewish, suspicious tyrant of a landlady, Arnold Lucy as the dignified vicar, G. P. Huntley, jun., as Farrell’s old-time friend, head the supporting cast with four splendid performances. The shorts include Movietone News, “Land of the Nile” (travelogue) and “Gland Parade” (comedy).

INGLEWOOD TALKIES. Many of our patrons who attend this theatre to-night and to-morrow will vote the court scene in “Other People’s Sins” the greatest attempt to film a trial yet made. The settings of the Old Bailey have been reproduced with a fidelity that is remarkable. One can hardly realise that the actual scenes have been taken in a film studio. Stewart Rome, one of the best-known British film stars, makes a sensational come-back to the screen with his speech for the defence. Horace Hodges gives a perfect performance as the “lovable old scoundrel” who stands his trial for murder in order to shield his daughter, and Anne Grey has been acclaimed as the film find of the year as a result of her remarkable portrayal of the woman who allows her husband to defend her father for the murder which she believes she herself has committed. This new P.D.C. special attraction will give those of our patrons who are interested in the progress of British film production a new outlook on the capabilities of British producers and British studios. “Other People’s Sins” was produced by Sinclair Hill at the Stoll Studios at Cricklewood, and the cast, which includes Arthur Margetson and Adeline Hayden Coffin, is all-British.