ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1934, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S TO-DAY. “RED WAGON” FINALLY? “Red Wagon,” the £BO,OOO picturisatibn of Lady Eleanor Smith’s famous novel, which has been screening to large audiences at Everybody’s, New Plymouth, provides entertainment of a very satisfying nature. It will conclude its season to-day at sessions commencing at 2 and 8 p.m. Charles Bickford, Greta Nissen and Racquel Torres portray the principal characters. “Footlight Parade,” one of the most spectacular musical comedies yet made, will be the featured attraction on the new programme which commences at Everybody’s to-morrow at 2 and 8 p.m. Ruby Keeler (Mrs. Al Jolson), Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Joan Biondell, James Cagney and other old favourites appear in the big cast. In most musical films the music is paramount, but in “Footlight Parade” there is a definite story—in fact several stories—drama, humour and good acting, and the musical numbers, elaborate as they are, are incidental to the plot. The film deals with the work of a great firm making prologues for cinema theatres, and hundreds of people are seen in action during the unwinding of the plot, reaching its climax in the beautiful and novel “By a Waterfall” number. REGENT THEATRE. “LOST PATROL” POPULAR. “The Lost Patrol," which will finally screen at The Regent to-night, has been well patronised by New Plymouth pic-ture-goers. It is one of the most unusual dramas yet seen on the screen and features an all-star cast headed by Victor McLaglen, Reginald Denny and Boris Karloff. Those robust, romantic rough-necks, Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen, are again co-starred in the rollicking comedy-drama “No More Women,” which comes to Tire Regent to-morrow

night. “No More Women,” as far as the title is concerned, should not be taken seriously. When these two fighting lovers say “no more women” they mean “no more than we can handle at one time.” This time they are deep-sea divers, acemen on rival salvage tugs. Lowe is satisfied to fight McLaglen as opposition diver until he sees the pretty owner of the tug on which McLaglen works. Then he joins the tug, and Sally Blane, the owner, has her hands full “kidding” two of them in place of one. The underwater scenes are most spectacular and provide a satisfying dramatic balance for the comedy which abounds in the film. WILLIAMSON’S OPERA COMPANY. “THE DUBARRY” STAGED TO-NIGHT. To-night at 8 o’clock at the Opera House, New Plymouth, J. C. Williamson Ltd. will present the famous London singer and actress Miss Sylvia Welling and a magnificent supporting company of over 100 artists in the beautiful musical play “The Dubarry,” and to-morrow evening they will stage Strauss’ brilliant and melodious comic opera “Waltzes from Vienna.” Seats in a central position for both operas may be selected to-day at Collier’s or at the doors this evening. “In ‘The Dubarry,’ ” wrote the critic of the Auckland Herald, “a packed house found all its expectations vastly exceeded. No stage spectacle so magnificent, so richly varied or accompanied by such a wealth of romantic music has been brought to »New Zealand for at least a decade.” : There could be no better proof that, spite of all the wonders of the talking screen, the theatre is without a rival in treating a three-dimensional fairyland to fill, ear - and eye with enchantment and wonder. Miss Sylvia Welling has won outstanding triumphs in London and Australia, while in Auckland she created a perfect furore by the magnificence of her singing and acting. Mr. John Dudley will make his first appearance in New Plymouth in the splendid singing role of Rene Lavallery, in which he achieved a big success in Sydney and Melbourne. Cecil Kellaway is unquestionably one of the best character-comedians who has ever been attached to the Williamson Ltd. management.

To-morrow evening the company will make its final appearance in New Plymouth, and the occasion will be a mem-

orable one because it will signalise the first and only representation of “Waltzes from Vienna,” which was claimed in Auckland as the loveliest comic opera ever staged there.. It is a feast for the eye and ear of spectacle and music, entrancing stage -ettings, beautiful'costuming, the Strauss unforgettable melodies and gorgeous . ballets. Miss Welling is magnificent in the role of . Countess Olga. INGLEWOOD TALKIES. “THE GIRL FROM MAXIM’S.” Leslie Henson, who stars , as Doctor Petypon in “The Girl from Maxim’s,” Alexander Korda’s screen epic of the “naughty nineties,” was bom in London in 1891. When he left school he was engaged in business in the city, but eventually he joined Louis Rihll’s concert party, “The Tatlers,” at Bath in June, 1910. In December of the same year he appeared in London as Sinbad in “Sinbad the Sailor.” Two years later he was in the West End in ‘Nicely Thanks” at the Strand Theatre. Leslie Henson joined the army in 1918 and went overseas with the R.A.F. Among his best known silent films were “Alf’s Button,” and “Tons of Money.” His talkies include “A Warm Corner” and “The Sport of Kings.” “The Girl from Maxim’s” shows at the Inglewood Theatre to-morrow night.