CINEMA PROGRAMMES

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1934, Page 13

CINEMA PROGRAMMES

5 i EVERYBODY’S THEATRE. j “STINGAREE.”’ Entertainment of a high order is pro- : vided in “Stingaree,” starring Irene Dunn and Richard Dix, which is now showing twice daily at Everybody’s Theatre. The story is replete with romance, drama, comedy and, above all, music and singing. Miss Dunne has the role of Hilda Bouverie, a girl with a beautiful voice who is forced to work as a servant in the home of rich relatives in Australia. The time is last century. Upon an errand of robbery, Stingaree, a notorious bushranger, sees Hilda, and hears her sing and immediately falls in love with her. Stingaree’ succeeds in starting Hilda on the road to fame, and he is Himself captured by the police and imprisoned. ' Although she attains: the heights, she cannot forget the lovable rogue and returns to Australia to find him. From fit his point on the story moves quickly, and the climax is surprising and satisfactory. Irene Dunne has a magnificent voice which finds full scope in the picture. The supporting cast includes Conway Tearle, Mary Boland and Henry Stephenson. An excellent supporting programme includes “The Pet Store” (Walt Disney Mickey Mouse cartoon), “The Old Maid’s Mistake” (comedy), “Audio Review” and Pathe News.

THE REGENT. “ONCE TO EVERY WOMAN.” “Once to Every Woman,” the screen version of the widely read Cosmopolitan Magazine novelette, “Kaleidoscope in K.” commenced a season at The Regent on Saturday before crowded audiences. Fay Wray is cast in the featured role of “Mary Fanshawe,” a professional woman who falls in love with Walter Byron, against her better judgment. When Byron is unmasked as a philanderer, she seeks consolation in the sincere devotion of Ralph Bellamy, a brilliant young surgeon, then to discover that his love is what she had mistakenly believed Byron’s to be. Bellamy's role in “Once to Every Woman” marks his second co-fea-tured assignment opposite Fay Wray, having appeared last season as her leading man in “Below the Sea.” “Once to Every Woman” will be preceded by “The California Trail,” starring Buck Jones. In this stirring panorama of the development of Southern California during the days when the only trains were waggon trains, Jones is cast in the role of a trail-making scout who travels as a guide with waggon-trains. Helen Mack provides the feminine interest. Screenings will be repeated to-night and tomorrow night and at a matinee to-mor- 1 row at 2 p.m. v

“HOLLYWOOD PARTY.” SPECTACLES AND HtJMOUR. J * , ■ ' When "throws” a party: it does the job properly; and so has Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its lavishly produced and riotously funny “Hollywood Party,” which opened at the ‘New Plymouth Opera House oh Saturday;’ A medley of song, dance and humour, with a story that is sufficient to hold it together, it presents spectacular scenes that have probably never been bettered in talking pictures. So good .are they that they would almost steal the comedians’ thunder were it not that the comedians are Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, easily the .outstanding pair on the screen today. They need’ no words to raise the most side-splitting laughter imaginable. Added to that-is “Hot Chocolate Soldiers,” f a Walt Disney coloured symphony in the one and only Disney’s .best manner. Such a gathering of talent, has rarely been brought to the screen' in one film. Jimmy Durante is ‘.‘Schnarzah thei Mighty.” No more need be said. Supporting a bright picture are equally! bright “shorts,” including a thrilling aeroplane coyote chase in which the .audience is treated to the same thrills as. the cameraman and the hunter.