CINEMA PROGRAMMES

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1934, Page 5

CINEMA PROGRAMMES

EVERYBODY’S. “DAMAGED LIVES” TO-MORROW. “Stamboul . Quest,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s spy drama featuring Myrna Loy and George Brent, screens -finally this afternoon and to-night at Everybody’s Theatre. Heading the supporting programme is the latest Laurel and. Hardy comedy entitled “Towed in a Hole.” From 7.30 to 7.55 p.m. to-night Bill Tilden’s tennis demonstration films will be screened for the last time. Far out of the beaten track of motion picture entertainment is “Damaged Lives,” the Weldon Pictures Corporation production. It combines an absorbing story of modem life, with a frank indictment of the secrecy and mystery with which the important facts about the socalled social diseases are shrouded, and the laxity generally displayed in combating these menaces to civilisation and society. Sponsored by the Social Hygiene Associations, an organ teation world-wide in its scope, which is waging a courageous fight against these evils, “Damaged Lives”' is a picture that every adult and youth over 18 years of age should see. The Racial Hygiene Association of N.S.W., under whose auspices the film and the very frank illustrated lecture by Dr. Gordon Bates will be shown, take much pleasure in announcing that it will be possible for all citizens in New Plymouth to see “Damaged Lives” at Everybody’s Theatre to-morrow, Thursday and Friday. There will be three sessions daily at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. (for mixed audiences) and at 4.30' p.m. daily for women only. By order of the New Zealand censor no person under 16 years of age is *to be admitted.

NEW PLYMOUTH OPERA HOUSE. “THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD.” “The House of Rothschild,” starring the incomparable George Arliss, is now showing twice daily at the New Plymouth Opera House at 2 and 8 p.m. Critics hail it as the best of all the Arliss pictures, which is saying a great deal. The story is an ideal one for the star, treeing as it does the fascinating history of the Rothschild family, whose devotion and unity resulted in their sensational rise to wealth and power, and providing Arliss with the role of Mayer Rothschild, the founder of the house, and later of his son, Nathan, the head of the family. Arliss’ Nathan Rothschild is an unforgettable character, more than fitted to stand beside his Disraeli. “Funny Little Bunnies,” Walt Dis-

ney’s latest Silly Symphony in coloui, heads the splendid supporting programme which includes “With Williamson Beneath the Sea,” “On a Voyage in the Ship of Drekms” (organlogue), and Fox News. . .

REGENT THEATRE. GRIPPING MYSTERY DRAMA. “Devil Tiger,” one of the most sensational and thrilling animal films ever made, and “Ever Since Eve,” an hilarious comedy-romance, will be finally screened at the Regent Theatre to-night at 8. “The Scotland Yard Mystery,” a gripping mystery drama starring the late Sir Gerald du Maurier, will commence at the Regent Theatre to-morrow at 8 p.m. The story concerns a crook who swindles an insurance firm by the use of a serum that promotes temporary'“death” in hire! “corpses.” Ostensibly a police physician, he makes huge profits by- insuring various men, injecting them with a serum which produces a state of catalepsy, and collecting on the policies. Later the “bodies” are revived by an anti-toxin and sent abroad to start life anew with a share of the ill-gotten gains. Sir Gerald du Maurier gives an excellent performance. Others arc George Curzon, Grete Natzler’, Belle Chrystall, Leslie Perrins, Walter Patch, Henry Victor, Herbert Cameron and Frederick Peisley.

INGLEWOOD TALKIES. “THE CROSBY CASE.” “I never want to be arrested,” says Wynne Gibson, who plays the leading feminine role in “The Crosby Case,” the Universal murder mystery to be screened at the Inglewood Theatre to-morrow. Even her make-believe experiences in the making of this picture have caused her to decide she will for ever keep away from police stations. Miss Gibson is one of those arrested as suspects i na murder case, and her subsequent grilling at tlie hands of the officers, she says, did more to make her want to be a lawabiding citizen than any other single thing in her life. “The very thought that this might be real,” she avers, “actually terrorised me, and I have resolved to ask all my friends not to be murdered. In the past I have been known sometimes to drive my car at a little over the speed limit, but—never again!”