ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1933, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

“IF I HAD A MILLION.”

NEW PLYMOUTH OPERA HOUSE.

“If I Had a Million,” which opened at the New Plymouth Opera House last night, is the story of an eccentric millionaire who leaves his money to people he selects from the city, directory before he dies. All sorts of people receive a million dollars in unexpected fashion, and it is their individual reactions to the surprising nature of the gifts that forms the main theme of the picture. In spite of the fact that the factors and friends predict an early death for John Glidden (Richard Bennett), who distributes the fortune, he is shown at the last to be dancing off to / a member. of an old ladies home, who bakes pies just as he. likes them. ■Others to participate in this surprising picture are Wynne Gibson, Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, George Raft, Gary Cooper, Jack Oakie, Roscoe Karns, Gene Raymond. Frances Doe, Alison Skipworth, W. C. Fields and May Robson, all of whom play parts that must have added to their reputations as artists of the first order. “HELL BELOW.” On Saturday “Hell Below” opens at the Opera House. The story running through the film concerns a young wife whose husband , has received a spine injury in the war, and of her meeting and falling in love with a submarine officer belonging to her father’s ship. The conflict of passions which begins on land is carried on under the sea, and is nearly •as dramatic as the actual warfare. Robert Montgomery and Walter Huston have most of the: work to do, while Madge Evans is the girl in the case. Jimmy Durante and Eugene Pallette provide most of the comedy in inimitable style, and a scene in which an American marine is matched with a native Australian in a boxing match, only to find the native a fighting kangaroo, is one of the high-lights of comedy.