ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1933, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S TO-DAY. “DISCORD.” “Discord,” a new Paramount British production which will make its New Plymouth appearance at Everybody’s today at 2 and 7.45 p.m. provides an answer to a problem facing many people of the present generation. What really makes a home; is it something more than a mere roof and four walls, and if not, why not? The picture reaches a high pinnacle of screen entertainment and shows sophisticated English society in some of its most daring and intriguing moments. It starts very simply; just a struggling composer and his wife seeking recognition and fame, but instead of to him success comes to her. Like magic their station in life changes, and it is when the wife, Phil Stenning, comes in contact with the better people that she begins to deviate a little from her former ideas. Owen Nares plays the part of Peter- Stenning, the composer, a role that he fills exceedingly pleasingly, while Benita Hume is his wife, fascinating to all, and particularly so to Lord Quihampton, played by Harold Huth, who treats her to a spectacular riverside boathouse party. The incident shows London society besporting itself in a delirious round of gaiety. The picture contains much clever and sophisticated dialogue and works very logically to a wholly satisfying finish. I The fact that it is an adaptation from E. Temple Thurston’s play “A Roof and Four Walls” is enough in itself to ensure entertainment of the very highest order. Benita Hume, in keeping with the musical background of the picture, sings very charmingly “Too Much Happiness,” “When Shadows Begin” and “A House Love Made for You and Me.” Supports are of special merit and include “Once Bitten,” a British comedy starring Richard Cooper, Frank Peltingell and Uraula Jeans, and the latest issue of Rathe British New* z

REGENT TO-NIGHT.

“STREET OF WOMEN.”

Beautiful Kay Francis’ second starring vehicle for Warner Bros., ‘Street of Women,” opens at The Regent, New Plymouth, to-night, with Miss Francis in the most important role of her screen career. The story concerns the difficulties encountered when a married man falls in love with the modiste, whose young brother is in love with ner lover’s daughter. The complications bring both tragedy and joy, eventually settling themselves so that the situation is smoothed out for both couples. “Street of Women,” directed by Archie Mayo of “Bought” and “Illicit” fame, brings a daring story to The Regent screen, wnich is paralleled daily in real life. It is handled with delicacy and cleverness. The cast, while small, has been specially selected with exact types and characters in mind. Alton Dinehart, Roland Young, Marjorie Gateson, Allan Vincent, and Gloria Stuart play the major roles in the story, which was screened from the successful novel by Polan Bank. A diversified supporting programme will include the latest Australian Fox News.

NEW PLYMOUTH OPERA HOUSE. “THE WHITE SISTER.” Judged from every angle, “The White Sister,” which has been screened with conspicuous success at the Opera House, I concludes its season to-night. Helen Hayes and Clark Gable are co-starring. MUSICAL COMEDY-VAUDEVILLE. “It’s Great To Be Alive,” the new musical production from Fox, starts a two-night and one matinee engagement at the Opera House to-morrow. It is reported as a rollicking romance, with one of the most unusual plots ever unfolded on the screen. The story revolves about the possibility of all the men of the world being removed—except for one who at the moment, is a castaway on a desert island. The millions

of women all over the globe, realising that here is an alarming situation, set about to recitfy it. What actually occurs is said to be the- basis for more hilarity than has been seen in many a month. Raul Roulien, star of the South American stage and screen, makes his debut in this picture as a full-fledged Hollywood star. The cast in support of Roulien includes Gloria Stuart in the feminine lead, Edna May Oliver as the famous scientist, Herbert Mundin in the leading comedy role, Joan Marsh, Dorothy Burgess, Emma Dunn, Edward Van Sloan and Robert Greig. One hundred of the most beautiful women in Hollywood are seen in the picture in which the full figure of feminine pulchritude reaches 1000.

NEW THEATRE. “THE KINGS VACATION.” Twenty-three extras who looked sufficiently alike to possibly belong to one family, with only two of them of the same apparent age or height, were recruited with considerable trouble by the Warner Bros, for use in one scene in the, new George Arliss picture “The King’s Vacation,” now showing at the New Theatre, Opunake. The twenty-three represented a father and mother and their twenty-one children, supposedly the championship family of .the country over which Mr. Arliss exercises a kindly reign in the story. The “children” varied in ages from two to thirty, with one set of twins down toward the end of the line. It was necessary for the twenty-one children to be graduated in size from the parents down. This required no small amount of manoeuvering on the part of the casting office which provided the “family.” Actually, it developed that members of twenty different families received needed work and pay in this one scene. The twins belonged to one family and two pairs of the smaller children came from the same home but the mother and father of the championship brood had never seen each other before the day they appeared on the set.., ■ '