CINEMA PROGRAMMES

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1934, Page 3

CINEMA PROGRAMMES

EVERYBODY’S THEATRE. “LIFE OF VERGIE WINTERS.” Ann Harding and John Boles give characterisations that will ever be remembered in “The Life of Vergie Winters,” which finally screens at Everybody’s Theatre, New Plymouth, to-day at 2 and 8 p.m. The shorts include “Highlights of the Melbourne Centenary.” “The Queen’s Affair,” featuring the beautiful Anna Neagle with Fernand Graavey, Gibb McLaughlin and Muriel Aked, will head the new programme beginning at Everybody’s to-morrow at 2 and 8 n.m. The story of the film is based on the operetta by Strauss, and British producers made such a success of it that the picture ran for extended seasons in Hollywood, New York and Chicago. Scenery, music and dialogue all combine to makp this picture of love and adventure a production very much above the ordinary, and one forgets the wild improbability of many of its situations in the enjoyment of the general richness of the picture. THE REGENT TO-NIGHT. “CHARLIE CHAN’S COURAGE.” “Charlie Chan’s Courage,” the picturisation of “The Chinese Parrot” by Earl Derr Biggers, will be finally screened at The Regent Theatre, New Plymouth, to-night. The supports include “Krakatoa,” a truly amazing film dealing with active volcanoes of the world. “She Learned About Sailors,” which commences at The Regent to-morrow night, is a boisterous nautical comedy, in which Lew Ayres and Alice Faye take the leading parts. It concerns three American sailors who seek the usual diversions ashore when their warship is anchored at Shanghai. One of them, Larry, becomes enamoured of a cabaret singer, z and, with cheerful persistence, adopts a variety of schemes for pressing his suit, finally falling in love more seriously than has previously happened in his roving career, but when he is once more on the high seas he comes to the conclusion’that his prospects are such that it would be unfair to the girl to ask her to marry him. It is here that his two friends step in to make sure that the marriage eventuates, and their wellintended but sometimes misguided actions are highly diverting. “She Learned About Sailors” will be preceded by Balbo’s Flight,” an outstanding film depicting the daring flight across the Atlantic by the Italian Air Armada. NEW PLYMOUTH OPERA HOUSE. “CHANGE OF HEART” MATINEE. “Change of Heart,” the Fox comedy romance which re-unites Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell for the. first time m two years, will conclude its season at the New Plymouth Opera House to-day at 2 and 8 p.m. In addition to an attractive supporting programme Miss Lynette Stewart, a representative of the celebrated Max Factor, appears on the stage and demonstrates the secrets of his world-famous cosmetics. Bing Crosby, the famous radio crooner, is the star of “We’re Not Dressing," a musical comedy romance coming to the Opera House to-morrow. The main charm, of the picture lies in the tuneful song numbers rendered by Crosby, the best of these being “May I,” “Good-night Lovely Little Lady” and “Love Thy Neighbour. The dialogue is bright and amusing, and the humour never fails. The entire action of the film takes place on a luxurious yacht and on a picturesque but almost uninhabited South Sea island. Bing Crosby is cast as a sailor employed on the yacht, who has been dismissed for impertinence by the owner, Carole Lombard, a beautiful heiress. However, the party of pleasure-seekers have the misfortune to be wrecked on an island, and it is then that the fun begins. Miss Lynette Stewart will also appear in conjunction with “We’re Not Dressing. INGLEWOOD TALKIES. “F.P.1.,” A BIG PICTURE. When Shakespeare asked “What’s in a name?” he must have had in mind a prophecy of the future, for names of films mean much. “F.P.1.,” the title of the Gaumount-British picture released by Fox Films to be screened at the Inglewood Town Hall to-morrow, refers to Floating Platform No. 1, an island of steel in mid-ocean as a half-way stopping and re-fueling base for trans-Atlan-tic flights. The name given to the picture—that of "F.P.1.”-conveys immediately an instinctive impression of the latent power in the picture. The name sounds “Big,” and no picture ever deserved that description more than does “F.P.1.,” which will surely take its place among the epics of the screen s history.