ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1934, Page 11

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE REGENT THEATRE. JOE E. BROWN’S LATEST COMEDY. Patrons who appreciate an evening’s good fun should on no account miss “Son of a Sailor,” the Joe E. Brown comedy now showing nightly at the Regent Theatre. From start to finish the laughs come thick and fast. Joe has the role of an imaginative sailor whose boastful tongue leads him into innumerable scrapes and scrap-’. . Most of the scenes were taken aboard the U.S.S. Saratoga, and 1100 sailors attached to the warship took part in the picture. Important supporting roles are played by Thelma Todd, John Mack Brown, Jean Muir and Merna Kennedy. The shcrts are particularly entertaining and include Universal News, two reel comedy and a musical revue. A matinee will be held to-morrow at 2 p.m.

EVERYBODY’S TO-DAY. “RED ENSIGN." The tragedy of the British mercantile marine, with its hundreds of ships laid up in port, and the struggle of British shipbuilders to carry in in the face of subsidised competition, serve as intriguing subject matter in the Fox-released Gaumont-British picture “Red Ensign” to be shown twice daily at Everybody’s today and to-morrow. The story details the efforts of a Clydeside shipbuilder to

keep his yards busy and in particular to obtain money to build a vessel of a new type, economical in many respects, that would enable British shipowners to compete on more equal terms with their rivals. He experiences opposition from members of his own board, but carries on'with his own money. He forges a signature to secure funds, when sabotage, staged by an interested rival, destroys his first vessel. He is found out and sent to prison, but the nation now thoroughly interested in his plucky endeavours comes to his aid. He is released, his vessel is launched, and the girl who has faithfully aided him througout, consents to share his future. Possessing a strong patriotic element with an absorbing background of the shipyards, a strong story, and virile performances from Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Alfred Drayton and other players, the picture is definitely one that will appeal to the great British public. The shorts include British News, Gaumont Mirror, “A Light Here” (Ideal Cinemagazine) and “Industrial Britain” (interest).