ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1932, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S! — ;■ • / ■ . ■'.-/// “LETTY LYNTON” TO-DAY. Ever since Joan Crawford selected , Robert .Montgomery as her leading man :/j in “Our Blushing Brides” Metro-Gold- i; : wyn-Mayer films have been swamped j with requests to co-star them again. It is therefore of more than usual interest ■ to learn that Joan Crawford and Robert /I Montgomery . appear together again in , the picturisation of the sensational ngyel -.:ig “Letty Lyntoh.” Produced by Clarence ./j; Brown, who made “Emma,” “Letty Lynton” heads the new programme at ' Everybody’s Theatre this afternoon and to-night. In this screen version of the / Marie Belloc Lownde’s novel Joan Cravf- ? ford gives the' most impressive.perform 1 - ance of her career. Robert Montgomery, ■ | the dashing., juvenile with many screen - successes to his credit, will be seen in a sincere role that makes him mere fascinating. than ever. - -. L s The stars .are supported by a strong cast including Nils Asther, the Swedish star, the popidar character actor . Stone, and that well-known stage . star ■ May Robson is the stem mother of - “Letty Lynton.” Louise Closser Hale contributes a comedy characterisation as the maid. “Letty Lynton” is a tense drama with an amazing climax in which : th'e < heroine faces the choice between prison and the loss of her reputation. “No finer romance has come from Hollywood,” is 1 the opinion of a leading critic. An add- J ed attraction at Everybody’s during the “Letty Lynton” season, will be “Tlm-t * ber Toppers,” a Pete Smith Olympic Games 'sporting featurette. Box-plans for the season are at Collier’s. '■■■'■ '

REGENT TO-NIGHT. ■ ' ■ '. "■ - /i-i MASTERPIECE OF FILMCRAFT. . - > " ■ '• : ■ ’'■ ://>.//’///■• Reviewing “The Stiange Case of Clara , ' Deane,” which commences a season at The Regent to-night, the Dominion,jays: .“A masterpiece of filmcraft is “The , Strange Case of Clara Deane,” Paramount story of a mother who was robbed of happiness. Starting back in 1912, the ■' story tells of Clara whose un- ' happiness starts five minutes' before her wedding and follows her through life. •• When her child is but four years old she 1 and her husband are sent to prison for 15 years, the husband for a crime which, | he committed. and the wjfe for one-* of which she was absolutely innocent. She"/ agrees to gi e up her child, and not to see her any more. How she fares'' in after fife , and how she ■ sacrifices every : vestige': of Her own happiness rather than let her daughter know of her mothers •existence leads up to a . jmd/C/s most perfectly acted climax. The acting/® of Miss Wynne Gibson as the unfortimrf/S ate Clara bears the stamp of, true.gshiuk/ < One .sees her as a beautiful • young woman and then follows her through her/|i dreary years, in prison. and finally sees,J her as an elderly woman, prison-hard-- // ened, broken in body, but still strong in mind. Excellent characterisations given by Pat O’Brien, Frances Dee, Dud-, ley Digges, and ; liitie,-Cora Sue Collins -i An attractive supporting programme will include Paramount British News, '“I ’Aint Got Nobody” (screen song), “The / Loud Mouth” (comedy). . ■ ■ • —— ' ' ' ■/.:

OPERA HOUSE, NEW PLYMOUTH. / / RHINEHART MYSTERY. STORY.. ■ ' ■ the Versatile >peh of■. the /famous , / authoress, Mary Roberts Rinehart have come many" of the .outstanding stories of.;/ mystery, notably “The Bat” and- “The poor,” and now. she has written -another® which is " said to . compare favourably ;' with, if not. to surpass, her previous g efforts in the elusive art of raising the /; hair of one’s head or causing involun- ; tary screams. “Miss 'Pinkerton,”, "Mary Roberts Rinehart's latest story, has been, brought to the screen; in a production // that does ample "justice to the story. it .- will commence a thcee-day season at the New Plymouth Opera House, to-day. : /// r / ? Miss Pinkerton is a young nurse bored with existence, encompassing as it doe« • operations and deaths in /: she. yearns for excitement She' on duty to. a house where ‘ murder,? or / suicide, or an accident has happened and : because she happens to criticise the.,-de®/-: ductions of the youthful detective on the case, earns - the cognomen of “Miss' Pin-Zg kerton” in memory of the famous Aineri-' can detective bureau. She takes . her.> •title/seriously, and tries a bit . of ing, but finds this meddling in other people’s business, especially nasty people®/ a decidedly unhealthy pastime, pbrtichk;,:; larly in the middle of the night experiences are enough to drive - any sane young lady crazy, but she, manages to retain her senses and secure the affection of a most personable officer,'ol/ the law into the bargain, but even when ; | everything seems to be solved and every- / body, except the villain, is going to live , happily ever after, there occurs climax which is said to lift the audience■« out of its seat, and then drop. them back again rolling in laughter.: The/title ; | role .is played by Miss Joan Blondall, •; I who is assisted by George Brent, John I Wray, Elizabeth Patterson,.-HOimesr bert, Mary Dorah and many others jjeai-i jSI ly suited to character roles :n such ;ui I absorbing mystery story. :It is safe/jtp/jl say ..that once word of this picture r'its : I round New Plymouth there will a de- I cided increase in patronage -to. a piCr/l ■ tore that is for a start seriously . han-/ l dicapped by a meaningless title. ■ ■// ./jilil • —? < — ■•• ••

■ NEW THEATRE, -’ ....... ■• _'/... . " ' “SIDE SHOW.” ' ■- ’/-’I It is news worth heeding that Wiphie'l Lightner, tomboy of the talkies;.;.andvl Charles Butterworth, meekest, and ijiqist; ■ solemn funnyman living, are ’l in “Side 'Show,” the Warner Bros?, pic- 1 ture which is to be .presented <at the ■ New Theatre, Opunake, to-night and’teis|B morrow. Not that Miss Lightner’s; work I in “Side Show” is all clowning, for tfiis?B film gives her her first chance to he; seri»« ous. She plays, the part of assistant to ■ the owner of the “world’s greatest cir- B cus,” hires help and fires help, and on I occasion doubles for hula dancer/ caiyiir. M bal or . bearded lady. But the serious ■ part of the business appears w.hen. : 'her,'W pretty sister comes to spend a vacationl with the show, and- while on the' lofcß alienates the affections of Joe the uarier B whom Winnie wants herself. Others: ini the cast are Evalyn Knapp, Donald Cook, I Guy Kibbee, Louise Carver, Betz, Ann Magruder, Luis Alberni,- Ed- B ward Morgan, Tom Ricketts Hoffman. Roy del Huth “Sido ■ Show” is a picture for all whose heftrtiß are young. Take the whole family, .■ •y'® B - .. ,i- '.7= . H