ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1933, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE TO-NIGHT. “BONDAGE” FINALLY. “Bondage,” starring Dorothy Jordan and Alexander Kirkland will be finally screened at The Regent, New Plymouth, to-night There is a full supporting programme. COMMENCING TO-MORROW NIGHT. Wallace Beery’s great success as a prize fight champion in “The Champ” has inspired his reappearance as a champion of the wrestling ring in “Flesh,” his latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring film which will commence a season at The Regent to-morrow (Wednesday) night. The story starts in Germany, where Wally is a wrestling waiter, and concludes with his crossing to America to seek the world’s title. Beery has a powerful role, comedy and pathos giving him plenteous opportunity to display his versatile acting. Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Jean Hersholt, and Wladak Zbyszko (three times world’s mat champion) head the cast. There will be an excellent array of short films including a Zasu Pitts—Thelma Todd comedy. EVERYBODY’S TO-DAY. “WEDDING REHEARSAL.” Undoubtedly, one of the finest screen entertainments yet conceived, “Wedding Rehearsal,” which has been responsible for remarkable enthusiasm at Everybody’s (all British), will definitely conclude its season to-day at 2 and 7.45 p.m. Roland-Young, George Grossmith, Lady 1 Tree, Wendy Barrie, John Loder and other brilliant stars of the British stage and screen portray the principal roles. The featurettes are varied and entertaining. “THE CALENDAR” TO-MORROW. To-morrow’s change of programme at Everybody’s will be headed by the British production, “The Calendar,” Edgar Wallace’s sensational racing thriller, featuring those well-known players, Herbert Marshall, Edna Best and Gordon Harker. Few people are not acquainted with at least some of the works of the late Edgar Wallace, and “The Calendar” is undoubtedly one of the most thrilling stories that have come from his pen. It is a racing story and anyone who is interested in racing should not miss this exceptionally fine production. “The Calendar” is a genial and generous English spectacle, filled with many beautiful and thrilling pictures of racing and racing occasions and packed with all the little intimate touches of speech and manner that stamp a film as being of our own land and people. The cast in the film are outstanding players. Herbert Marshall and Edna Best in “Michael and Mary” and “The Faithful Heart,” will long be remembered for their acting, while Gordon Harker, Britain’s greatest character actor, provides comedy that will be enjoyed by all. The supporting attractions will include “Rynox,” another British production which co-stars Stewart Rome and Dorothy Boyd. NEW PLYMOUTH OPERA HOUSE. “STATE FAIR” SUCCESS. One of the most delightful pictures ever screened is “State Fair,” the Fox release which has been attracting large audiences at the Opera House since its opening day. Janet Gaynor and Lew Ayres play the leading roles while Louise Dresser, Norman Foster and Sally Eilers play, a no less important part. “State Fair” will be screened finally to-day at the matinee and evening sessions. “MADAME BUTTERFLY.” “Madame Butterfly,” now made into a picture, with a background of beautiful music from Puccini’s grand opera, comes to the Opera House to-morrow with a cast headed by Sylvia Sidney, Gary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Irving Pichel and Helen Jerome Eddy. It is the story of a lovely Japanese girl’s romance with an American naval officer. Gary Grant, as the officer stationed on the island, meets and falls in love with her. Then, discovering that under Japanese law divorce is almost automatic when a husband leaves his wife, he decides to marry her and enjoy the happiness of life with her while he remains in the country. Ultimately he is sent back to the United States. Too deeply touched to tell her the truth about his plans, he promises to return when “the robins nest again.” And the girl takes him at his word, prepared to await his return. He does return, years later, but under entirely different circumstances, circumstances which bring the picture to a touching dramatic climax.