ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1933, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S (ALL-BRITISH). “HER FIRST AFFAIR” FINALLY. . “Her First Affair,” the British production which has completely captivated . local audiences, will be finally screened at Everybody’s Theatre, New Plymouth, . to-day at 2 and 7.45 p.m. Ida Lupino, Diana Napier and Harry Tate are the stars of this delectable comedy. The accompanying programme includes “Murder at Covent Garden,” a tense mystery drama, and Australian Cinesound News. ANOTHER GOOD PROGRAMME. “Diamond Cut Diamond,” which will be the main feature on to-morrow’s change of programme, stars the inimitable Claude Allister, an established favourite with New Plymouth audiences. “Diamond Cut Diamond” is refreshing entertainment, a bright and breezy record of the doings of two thieves, who have an unusual flair for picking pockets. They pursue their machinations from the South Seas to London, and everything proceeds according to plan until they meet their match in a woman, who is their master in cunning and crime. Supporting roles have been allotted to Benita Hume, Kenneth Kove, Desmond Jeans, Toni Bruce and Shayle Gardner. Phillip Strange also is in the cast A varied supporting programme will precede the main attraction. REGENT THEATRE. “THE BIG CAGE’ MATINEE TO-DAY. No picture previously screened in New Plymouth will bear comparison with ‘The Big Cage,” the circus drama which finally screens at The Regent Theatre, New Plymouth, to-day at 2 and 7.45 p.m. In this amazing entertainment the plot is woven around Clyde Beatty, a young and handsome animal trainer who performs the seemingly impossible feat of working lions and tigers together in the same cage. Anita Page is leading lady. TWO FEATURES TO-MORROW. “Sundown Rider” and “Caught Cheating,” two feature length productions which have been favourably received in other centres, will both be screened on the change of programme at The Regent to-morrow (Wednesday) at 2 p.m. “Sundown Rider” stars the athlete Buck Jones and Barbara Weeks. It is a gripping melodrama of the old West. “Caught Cheating” is described as a comedy packed with excitement and intrigue. Those incomparable funsters, Charlie Murray and George Sidney, are responsible for all that happens. NEW PLYMOUTH OPERA HOUSE, “CALL HER SAVAGE’’ “Call Her Savage,” the latest Fox production which has been screening at the Opera . House since Saturday last, concludes its season to-night. Clara Bow portrays the leading role, while others in the cast are Monroe Owlsey, Thelma Todd, Gilbert Roland. “SWEEPINGS." In “Sweepings,” which commences at the Opera House to-morrow,. Lionel Barrymore has just the sort of character role that suits him, as a man who creates a million dollar store in Chicago, but who fails to create a dynasty. The fortune that he built up, as a fortunemaking genius, is for his family only something to squander; and all the personal pride that he felt in the achievement is humbled to the dust by the weakness of his three sons and daughter. In this conquest and this humiliation there is a deep philosophic background, and the main value of Barrymore’s interpretation is that all through he keeps alive that background, and never once, in his gains and losses, does he fail to create the impression of an eternal justice that gives and takes away. • Phoebe (played by Gloria Stuart), is the American prince-capturing heiress; Gene (William Gargon) is the most promising of the sons physically, but a libertine; Bert (George Meeker) is the stodgy but wellmeaning son; Freddy (Eric Linden) is the Benjamin of the group—the youngest, who is still left at the fall of the curtain with a faint chance of making good. Gregory Ratoff gives a character sketch of the able manager who watches the rise of the genius and the fall of his family. “Sweepings” is a picture that gives one something to think about. INGLEWOOD TALKIES. “THE HOUSE OPPOSITE.” Mr. Clitheroe, tenant of 26 Jowle Street, is blackmailing Dick Randall under the direction of Fahmy, an Egyptian. The police suspect him, and Hobart, a detective, investigates matters. He finds a tramp occupying No. 29, opposite No. 26, and tips him to keep his eyes open. Calling at No. 26, Hobart is drugged and imprisoned. Nadine, a girl detective, who calls there, gaining admittance by means of a symbol she stole from Fahmy while dining with him. Fahmy arrives at the house, sees through her trick and has her imprisoned in the cellar. Dick Randall, calling on Clitheroe at midnight, finds his fiancee there. Clitheroe’s accomplice insults her and Randall shoots him. Thinking him dead he agrees to pay a large sum for the disposal of the body. Nadine also became acquainted with Ben, and gave him certain instructions. Inspecting No. 26 from the outside he slips down, a coal shute to the cellar, finds Nadine and frees her. Fahmy and Clitheroe find them, but Ben escapes and goes for the police. Meanwhile Clitheroe sets fire to the house, and Hobart has a final struggle with Fahmy on the roof and would have been killed by I him but for the intervention of Ben. The tramp and the detective are rescued just as the house is finally falling in. This ! is the story to be screened to-morrow ! night at the Town Hall, Inglewood.