CINEMA PROGRAMMES

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1934, Page 3

CINEMA PROGRAMMES

THE REGENT. , i BRIGHT COMEDY DRAMA. “She Learned About Sailors” heads the new programme at The Regent to-night. Lew Ayres is the champion heart-breaker of the U.S. Navy and Alice Faye is a night club entertainer in the picture. This gives Alice a splendid opportunity to sing "Here’s the Key to My Heart” in a manner that is reminiscent of her “Nasty Man” number in George White's “Scandals.” Aiding and abetting these two with the comedy are those knock-out slapstick artists, Mitchell and Durant, who are Lew’s shipmates in the picture, and Harry Green, a South American impresario. The story takes them from an Asiatic port, through the vicissitudes of life on shipboard to a cafe in San Pedro, California. Lew Ayres is persuaded by his two shipmates, Mitchell and Durant, to accompany them ashore at an Asiatic seaport. At a cafe Ayres meets Alice Faye, and before the fleet leaves port they fall in love. There then follows a series of hilarious events that brings the film to a lively conclusion. A splendid supporting programme includes “Balbo’s Flight,” a pictorial record of the daring flight across the Atlantic by the Italian air armada. It is classed as one of the outstanding featurettes of the year. EVERYBODY’S THEATRE. “THE QUEEN’S AFFAIR.” “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-day at 2 and 8 p.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. In “The Queen’s Affair” Anna Neagle appears as an American shopgirl who finds she is the heiress to the throne of Ruritania, Arriving at her palace, she meets with a reverse in the shape of a handsome president at the head of her State, now turned Republican, and she is deposed. Later the revolutionaries are driven out and the president goes cn holiday, by a strange chance choosing the same select hotel as the queen had sought in refuge. The obvious happens, but later, when she learns that the handsome one is a rebel leader, she sentences him to death. Back in her kingdom again, the story is brought to a satisfactory and amusing conclusion, a note of the ridiculous being struck in the final fade-out. Scenery, music and dialogue all combine to make 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 associate programme i of a high standard and includes British News, Pathe Pictorial Varieties and “Way of the Wild” (interest). OPERA HOUSE. “WE’RE NOT DRESSING” TO-NIGHT. “We’re Not Dressing,” which begins at the Opera House to-night, is said to be the best picture that Bing Crosby has made to date. No other screen player has attained such widespread popularity in the short time he has been on the screen, and the present film has an additional attraction in its song hits--“ Love Thy Neighbour,” “Once In a Blue Moon,” “Good-night, Lovely Little Lady,” and “May I?” Also featured with Crosby in this brilliant combination of perfect entertainment, enchanting music, uproarious comedy and romance are Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Leon Errol and Ethel Merman. All are shipwrecked on an island in the South Seas, and that is how the fun starts in this bright musical tale of a sailor, a beautiful girl and a shipwreck. Bing Crosby is the sailor, and besides supplying much of the comedy when he takes charge of the casta wajs sings tuneful melodies in a way which will please every admirer. The sailor falls in love with" the beautiful heiress of the party, who happens to be Carole Lombard, and a charming romance is added to the crazy comedy supplied by Burns and Allen. These two radio stars, who have won fame on the screen as a result of their hilarious capers, as just as laughable as ever. In addition to a splendid supporting programme Miss Lynette Stewart will appear on the stage and demonstrate the secrets of Max Factor’s “Hollywood Make-up.” This entertaining “turn” has proved very popular and men will appreciate it as much as the women. Intending patrons are advised to reserve for to-night.