ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 26 January 1934, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

NEW PLYMOUTH OPERA HOUSE. “CHARLIE CHAN” FILM. “The Power and the Glory,” co-star-ring Colleen Moore and Spencer Tracy, will be finally screened at the Opera House to-day at 2 and 8 p.m. “Charlie Chan’s Greatest Case,” the new Fox film depicting the most recent adventures of that bland Chinese detective from Hawaii, will commence a season at the Opera House to-morrow at 2 p.m. Warner Oland, famous for the portrayal of Charlie Chan in past screen successes, again has the role of the philosophising policeman who finds clues where others pass by. This latest story from the vigorous pen of Earl Derr Biggers takes Charlie Chan over the most difficult trail of crime and clues he has yet had. Stopped at every point by closed mouths and fearful associations, Chan falls back on his mellow philosophy to the solution of a crime that has the police baffled. The leading feminine role is in the hands of Heather Angel, beautiful newcomer to the American screen, and she is said to acquit herself with the sureness of a veteran. The supporting cast, headed by Roger Imhoff and John Warburton, is the most notable ever assembled for a Charlie Chan film. A varied supporting programme consists of a Magic Carpet, an Ideal Cinemagazine, a cartoon and a Fox News Reel.

EVERYBODY’S PROGRAMMES. LAST DAY OF “PADDY.” “Paddy, the Next Best Thing,” the delightful Irish fantasy co-starring Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter will be finally screened at Everybody’s Theatre, New Plymouth, to-day at 2 and 8 p.m. A definite advance in British film technique is made in “Yes, Mr. Brown,” which will open a season at Everybody’s Theatre to-morrow at 2 and 8 p.m. Hitherto British comedians have frequently been allowed to dominate the screen and to extemporise as though they were on a stage, and the continuity of the film has suffered in consequence. The director of “Yes, Mr. Brown,” Jack Buchanan, who also has the leading role, has realised the need for a feasible story, and the film is based on a stage play which enjoyed wide popularity in Ger-'' man and Austrian theatres about three years ago. The picture, which is filled with dancing and lilting melodies, presents Mr. Buchanan as the manager of a toy shop in Vienna. At the time the story opens the managing-director of the company, Mr. Brown, is on his way from America, and frantic preparations are being made for his reception. On account of a domestic difference the manager’s wife leaves home at a time when she should be acting as hostess to Mr. Brown, and the desperate manager compels his secretary to take the place of his wife at the dinner table. The complications which follow make delightful entertainment. The leading feminine roles are filled by Elsie Randolph, Vera Pearce and Margot Grahame. Intending patrons are urged to reserve at Collier’s. REGENT THEATRE. NEW SERIAL STARTS TO-NIGHT. Richard Barthelmess gives a particularly brilliant performance in “The Cabin in the Cotton,” which will be finally screened at the Regent to-night. An additional feature to-night will be "Toll of the Rapids,” the first episode of “Clancy of the Mounted.” Prepare for thrills, action, laughter! You will find plenty of them when Tom Mix makes his bow in “Flaming Guns,” the famous Peter B. Kyne story, which will commence at the Regent to-morrow at 2 and 8 p.m. The Universal picture gives you Tom as Sergeant Tom Malone, fresh from the trenches, out to teach the cow country a few new tricks. He impersonates a small army, captures a nest of rustlers, single-handed, enrages ' a landowner, ruins another cattle-stealing gang all by himself, locks the sheriff up in his own handcuffs, and eludes practically every law officer in a whole California county. The shorts will include the first chapter of “Clancy of the Mounted.” NEW THEATRE, OPUNAKE. “WILD HORSE MESA.” When players and cameras were shipped to the Navajo Indian reservation in Arizona to film the horse stampede sequence of Paramount’s Zane Grey Westtern thriller, Wild Horse Mesa,” opening to-night at the New Theatre, Opunake, it was found necessary to employ diplomacy in order to keep peace in the tribe. So anxious were the members of the ten Indian posts on the reservation to participate that Paramount field officials found it necessary to commission 35 redskins from each post in order to preserve harmony. The system worked to placate the camera-anxious Navajos who performed valuable service in rounding up the herd of 5000 wild horses seen in the picture. Randolph Scott, Sally Blane and Fred Kohler are the featured players in “Wild HorSe Mesa.” . ./A INGLEWOOD “Marry Me,” the title of the Gainsborough talkie production in which Renate Muller, the “happiness girl” of “Sunshine Susie,” makes her second talkie appearance for the British producers, is having more praise lavished upon it by the trade and Press than any recent big talkie production that has gone through England. It will be shown at Inglewood to-night and to-morrow night. Possessing a cast of outstanding stage and screen favourites, of which George Robey and Harry Green, more than probably two of the most famous comedians in the world, are members, this production presents hilarity from the first to the last foot of film. It concerns a matrimonial bureau, conducted by HanyGreen, whose favourite method of placing wives and husbands is to have a talkie made of them, and anyone who wants a new spouse views the various talkies in stogk to decide which type he or she would, like.