ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1932, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

I. ' . , EVERYBODY’S. FAMILY NIGHT TO-NIGHT. “The Unexpected Father,” a . bright comedy starring Slim Summerville, Zasu Pitts and little Cora Sue Collins screens finally this afternoon and to-night at Everybody’s. There is an excellent supporting bill including a Mickey Mouse Cartoon. / NORMA SHEARER TO-MORROW. Sparkling with spicy dialogue and moving swiftly with a modern roniance Norma Shearer’s new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production “Strangers May Kiss” heads the new programme commencing to-morrow at Everybody’s Theatre. In this special production, it is said, Miss Shearer never appeared to better advantage and easily eclipses her own triumphs of last season in “Let Us Be Gay” and “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney.” Robert Montgomery, the popular juvenile lead, plays opposite Miss Shearer. The settings and costumes are particularly outstanding and lend much to the pictorial value of the splendid production. Another feature of to-mor-row’s new 1 programme is “Beau Hunks” the latest comedy by the inimitable comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Everybody’s patrons will have pleasure in hearing for the first time tomorrow evening Claude Smith’s Regal Orchestra. This orchestral combination of nine players will be heard on the stage at Everybody’s from 7.30 to 8 p.m. Patrons should endeavour to be seated early to hear this new orchestra’s delightful numbers. THE REGENT THEATRE. “DANCE TEAM” FINALLY.' “Dance Team,” the delightful Fox Movietone production starring James Dunn and Sally Eilers (stars of “Bad Girl” and “Over the Hill”), will be finally screened at The Regent Theatre, New Plymouth, to-night. There is a good supporting bill. c One of those events looked forward to, and cherished by movie millions, a new Ruth Chatterton picture, comes to The Regent to-morrow (Wednesday) night. The newest Paramount opus for the “first lady” of films is titled. “Once a Lady,” and is a melange of the surefire dramatic clay which this emotional sculptress so - effectively handled in “Madame X,” “Sarah and Son,” and “The Better Wife.” Although Miss Chatterton has been surrounded with a notable and gifted cast, including a. goodly sprinkling of English celebrities who ideally suit the earlier British environment of the action, it is again, the royal sense of dramatic values which the star possesses and so facilely projects from the screen, which carries off tne honours. The story relates the dramatic experiences of an adventuress who marries into a respectable English family, and is unable to temper her appetite for good times with the conservator* habits of her .politically proper mi*