ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1933, Page 11

ENTERTAINMENTS

:t theatre to-night. DOUBLE-STAR BILL FINALLY. “A Safe: Proposition,” the British comedy-drama starring A. W. Bascomb, and “While Paris Sleeps,” starring Victor McLaglen, Helen Mack and William Bakewell, will both be finally screened at the Regent, New Plymouth, to-night This programme has proved exceptionally popular with local audiences. COMMENCING TO-MORROW. “Gold Dust Gertie,” the latest comedy starring Winnie Lightner, the likeable star of "Gold Diggers of Broadway” and “Life of the Party,” will commence a three-night season at the Regent Theatre to-morrow (Wednesday) night “Gold Dust Gertie” may be said to be a rather descriptive title, as hard-hitting Winnie succeeds in extracting gold dust, or its equivalent, from everybody in sight and is either married or has been married to everybody of the masculine persuasion in the picture, from the two newlyweds, played with their usual slapstick insanity, by Olsen and Johnson, screenland’s oddest clowns, to the aged and erstwhile painfully modest maker of bathing suits,'played by Claude Gillingwater. EVERYBODY’S. “DOWN TO EARTH” AGAIN. “Down to Earth,” screening finally this afternoon and to-night at Everybody’s Theatre, is an uproarious Will Rogers comedy plus a straightforward absorbing story of a family living above its means, and of how Rogers brings his society climbing wife and. children down to earth with his common sense and wholesome humour. Its clever blending of hilarious situations and modern business problems, along with the fine performances of a supporting cast headed by Dorothy Jordan, Irene Rich and Matty Kemp, make this offering a real treat for theatregoers. David Butler’s direction and Homer Croy’s story both deserve praise as well. Every member of the family will thoroughly enjoy this latest addition to the film menu. Family night patrons will find much to entertain the kiddies on this programme, particularly in the cartoon "Mother Goose Melodies” and “Here Comes the Circus,” which shows a real circus from start to finish. MARION DAVIES—TO-MORROW. To-morrow’s change of programme at Everybody’s offers a brilliant cast of popular stars, headed by Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Billie Dove and Zasu Pitts in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production "Blondie of the Follies.” Written by Frances Marion, author of “Emma” and “Min and Bill,” “Blondie of the Follies” adds another feather to the cap of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s list of screen accomplishments. NEW PLYMOUTH OPERA HOUSE. “OLD DARK HOUSE” FINALLY. J. B. Priestley’s mystery thriller, “The Old Dark House,” which has been adapted to the screen in a' manner that has provoked the unanimous opinion that it is one of the best pictures of its type ever produced, has been enjoying exceptional patronage at the New Plymouth Opera House. Despite the picture meriting a much longer, season, on account of the theatre not being available for pictures on Wednesday, the season of “The Old Dark House” must definitely conclude to-day. Although classed in the category of films that purpose to bring involuntary shrieks of fright from the more susceptible patron, “The Old Dark House” could not be classed as a “horror” film. Its outstanding feature is the portrayal of the various characters in the story, and a specially selected cast of English players was chosen for what must undoubtedly be regarded as the largest assembly of “difficult” roles ever seen in one picture. INGLEWOOD TALKIES. “HER MAJESTY LOVE.” , Marilyn Miller, at the Inglewood Theatre to-morrow night in “Her Majesty, Love,” her latest First National starring vehicle, beside dancing for at least two hours every day of her life as practice, loses no opportunity to trip the light fantastic. Even when a> home alone, resting, a catchy number heard over the radio will set her all agog, she says. “First my toes tap time ,to the music, then my fingers, and then I am up and dancing around the room like mad, just for the pure joy of it!” In “Her Majesty, Love” Miss Miller has a chance not only to dance, but to sing and act, and to be quite the most captivating star in captivity. She plays the role of a coquettish barmaid who evolves into a baroness. Ben Lyon does the romantic lead. The large cast includes many screen favourites. William Dieterle directed. NEW THEATRE, OPUNAKE. “TRANSATLANTIC” ROMANCE. Replete with romance and crammed with action and intrigue, “Transatlantic,” new Fox Film production, has its premier showing to-night at the New Theatre, Opunake. Edmund Lowe, who heads the all-star cast, has the role of “Monty Greer,” a gambler anxiously sought by the district attorney as star witness in a graft trial. His adventures, both amatory and otherwise, aboard this ocean greyhound prove amusing and interesting. Prominent in the supporting cast are Lois Moran as “Judy Kramer”; Jean Hersholt plays her father, an old German lens grinder, making his first luxury trip abroad; John Halliday, an absconding banker; Myrna Loy, his wife; Greta Nissen, a Swedish dancer and sweetheart of Halliday, and Earle Foxe, one who has designs on Halliday’s stolen millions. The picture is being specially screened to augment the funds of the Cottage Hospital radio installation.