COMING ATTRACTIONS

Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1934, Page 20 (Supplement)

COMING ATTRACTIONS

PICTURES AT NEW PLYMOUTH. the opera house. To-day, Monday and Tuesday: “Only • Yesterday” (Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Denny and a mammoth feature cast). February 14, 15 and 16: “She Done Him Wrong” (Mae West, Noah Beery, Gilbert Roland). February > 17, 19 and 20: “Whoopee” (Eddie Cantor). THE REGENT. To-day, Monday and Tuesday: “Stage Mother” (Alice Brady, Maureen O’Sullivan and Franchot Tone); and “The Music Box” (Laurel and Hardy). February 14 to 16: “Walls of Gold” (Ralph Morgan and Sally Eilers). February 17 to 20: “Jimmy and Sally” (James Dunn). EVERYBODY’S THEATRE. <' To-night,. Monday- and Tuesday: “Rome Express” (Esther Ralston, Conrad Veidt, Harold Huth, Joan Barry and Gordon Harker). February 14 to 16: “Up for the Derby’ (Sydney Howard). e FAhmary 17: “The Hayseeds” (Cecil Kellaway). ... GIFT FROM RICH UNCLE TROUBLE IN “WALLS OF GOLD.”

“Walls of Gold,” from the pen of Kathleen Norris, the title of the picture to show at the Regent Theatre on Wednesday evening, implies the imprisoning quality of wealth when a woman sells herself for it. When Jeanie Sutterlee (Sally Eilers), though in love with Barnes Ritohie (Norman Foster), accepted a furcoat from his rich roue . uncle (Ralph Morgan) she was looking for trouble, and found it. The young lover Barnes becama angry with the wicked uncle, found sympathy with his sweethearts sister (played by Mary Mason),- and married her, leaving Jeanie to fall into the arms of the wicked uncle and to live the life of luxury within his “Walls of Gold.” Having married Jeanie, the wicked uncle became intimate with nearly all the other ladies in the cast, especially with a foreign ballerina and an American flapper. No man, even in an American picture, can serve more than six mistresses, and the end of it was that the flapper flourished a revolver and the wicked uncle died of heart disease. This leaves Jeanie (Sally Eilers) and Barnes (Norman Foster) with a clean slate (the latter’s wife having died) and they start all over again to live happily ever afterwards (Evening Post). THE NAUGHTY NINETIES MAE WEST IMPROVES ON THEM. The Opera House, New Plymouth, will have on its mid-week programme next week a picture, “She Done Him Wrong, which with “Cavalcade” was the outstanding screen success in London in 1933. A fresh note even though a loud one is struck by Mae West as the star of the picture, who with a personality much different from that of the average leading lady of the screen, makes her debut as a fllm star. She is one of the most spectacular figures in L— current theatrical world of Broadway; and “She Done Him Wrong” is a melodrama which she herself wrote. It is hard to describe the personality of Mae West; it is one of thoee things which have to be- seen. AN AUSTRALIAN COMEDY "THE HAYSEEDS” COME TO TOWN. “The Hayseeds” (written and produced by Beaumont Smith, of Wellington), which begins next Saturday at Everybody’s Theatre, is tated to be another milestone in the progress of advanced cinematography in Australia. “The Hayseeds” are an interesting family group, who have fought storm and drought with little success, still battling away on their farm. The sturdy manliness and subtle humour of “Dad” Hayseed are well acted by Cecil Kellaway, the well-known comedian- Shirley Dale, Arthur Clarke, Katie Towers (“Mum”), Tai Ordell and Molly Raynor are the supporting players. BRITISH “BUSTER KEATON” HOWARD “UP FOR THE DERBY.” After his success in “Splinters,” “Tilly of Bloomsbury,” and “Up for the Cup,” Sydney Howard was established as a leading British comedian. He has a natural style and “Up for the Derby,” which comes to Everybody’s Theatre on Wednesday, was written for Howard by the author of two of his previous screen efforts, “Up for the Cup” and “The Mayor’s Nest,” who combined a know-, ledge of the capabilities and type of comedy which best suits Howard. The story of the film introduces fhe star as an unsuccessful punter who eventually acquires and trains a Derby winner. Mark Daly, well-known London comedian, is Howard’s foil in the production. Frank Harvey and Dorothy Bartlam, a welcome newcomer, are in support. RETURN OF “WHOOPEE” SPECTACLE IN TECHNICOLOUR. The sponsors of “Whoopee,” which is to open its season at the Opera House, New Plymouth, next Saturday, are the greatest pioneers of the motion picture in America and the musical comedy king of the American stage. The stage production of “Whoopee” astonished New York by its lavish beauty, and in the freer medium of the talking screen, Florenz Ziegfeld was determined to outdo even the stage incarnation. Scores of beautiful girls, selected from among 5000 applicants by Goldwyn and Ziegfeld personally, the expenditure of nearly 2,000,000 dollars, and months of careful preparation make “Whoopee” mark a new era in pictures. Colour is used lavishly throughout to enrich these unparalleled effects. JACKIE COOGAN RETURNING NOW A GROWN-UP STAR. jarkip Coogan is returning to pictures as a grown-up star. As he is still completing his education, his film work will be done at week-ends and during the holidays. All the 12 pictures in which he has arranged to appe will deal with U.S. college life. Bom on October 26,1915, Jackie achieved fame at the age of four in Charlie Chaplin’s comedy, “The Kid,” though he actually made his first screen appearance as an 18-months-old baby. Soon afterwards he was earning £2OO a •week. Two years ago he played his last juvenile part in “Huckleberry Finn.”