ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1934, Page 11

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE REGENT THEATRE. “NO MORE WOMEN.” It is now some considerable time since the famous comedy team,. Victor McLaglen arid Edmund Lowe, have appeared on the local screen, and their most recent film, “No More Women,” which is now showing nightly at the Regent is proving extremely popular. The rivalry which they have maintained with undeviating hostility on the screen in the numerous predecessors to this film is again upheld with worthy and fistic warfare. McLaglen is seen as the head diver on a salvage boat, which, after a period of unsuccessful operations, is bought as a speculation by a party of women. McLaglen and a number of the crew rebel at the idea of being ordered about by women,. but when McLaglen discovers that his old rival (Lowe) has been retained as the head diver in his place, McLaglen goes back to his job. Sally Blane, the new owner, appears to be smitten by the charms of Lowe and pays little attention to McLaglen, and the situation is one which offers the actors many opportunities for their characteristic displays. A dramatic note is introduced into the proceedings when the salvagers succeed in locating a sunken treasure ship. A rival diver is commissioned to dispose of Lowe and McLaglen, but, needless to say, he is not successful, the only result of his activities being to clear up the tangled situation. The under-water scenes in

the film are particularly realistic, and a fair proportion of the film comprises descriptions of the submarine operations of the divers. There is an entertainment programme of supporting features including the fourth Cricket Test and the All Blacks v. Australia. ‘TOOTLIGHT PARADE.” GORGEOUS SCENES; BIG CAST. “Footlight Parade,” a film with a definite element of originality, is now delighting audiences at Everybody’s, where it is screening twice daily to large audiences. James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler (Mrs. Al. Jolson), Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee and other stage and screen favourites are included in the huge cast. In most musical films the music is absolutely paramount, even though it is not always very good; but in “Footlight -Parade” there is a definite story—in fact, several stories—containing drama, humour and good acting, while the musical numbers, excellent though they are, are incidental to the plot. Three of the song and dance ensembles are perhaps the best things of their kind ever put on the screen, each different, each with catchy music, and each superlatively produced. “Honeymoon Hotel,” “Shanghai Lil” and “By a Waterfall,” are numbers which will not soon be forgotten by those who see and hear them. The film deals with the work of a great firm making prologues for cinema theatres and hundreds of persons are seen in action during the unwinding of the enthralling plot, which reaches its climax in the beautiful and novel “By a Waterfall” number. Firstclass “shorts” complete a particularly bright entertainment.