CINEMA PROGRAMMES

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1935, Page 5

CINEMA PROGRAMMES

THE REGENT. “REGISTERED NURSE.” “Registered Nurse,” a First National picture which comes to The Regent tonight at 8 o’clock, is said to be a romantic drama of hospital life with<an entirely new twist. Based on the story by Florence Johns and Wilton Lackaye, jun., it deals with the love life of the nurses and doctors in a great metropolitan hospital rather than with the more sombre or technical side of such an institution. Only two patients come prominently into the picture, and these supply the laughable incidents in a story that leans more to thrilling melodrama than to comedy. Each of them is taken to the hospital against his will after having been battered up in a free-for-all fight. Bebe Daniels enacts the featured role, that of a beautiful woman who turns to nursing after her marital life has proved a failure. John Halliday and Lyle Talbot portray the principal supporting roles. An entertaining associate programme includes the latest newsreel, “I Scream” (comedy), “Darling Enemy” (musical novelty), and Mills’ Blue Rhythm Band in a selection of popular melodies. EVERYBODY’S TO-DAY. “CHU CHIN CHOW” FINALLY. “Chu Chin Chow,” the picturisation of the international stage success, will conclude a successful season at Everybody’s to-day at 2 and 8 p.m. Children will be admitted for half-price at both ’sessions. “Of Human Bondage” will be the major attraction at Everybody's to-mor-row (Thursday) and Friday. It takes the very human story of a successful modern novelist and makes a natural and logical film of it. There is nothing or- .

nate or melodramatic about it. On the contrary there is a simplicity and straight-forwardness of presentation that throws the forceful and sympathetic acting of the principals into arresting relief and allows a full appreciation of the splendid character studies which form its most notable feature. First there is Leslie Howard’s impressive impersonation of the crippled medical student, who prejudiced the success of his career under the influence of a sincere but foolish infatuation for a worthless girl. Howard succeeds wonderfully in making the Character living and credible. Bette Davis is prominently associated with him as the very common, ill-bred Cockney waitress, who is as ungrateful as she is unprincipled. She contributes a most telling performance and turns every opportunity for studied portrayal to excellent advantage. NEW PLYMOUTH OPERA HOUSE. PICTURES AND TALKIE TESTS. A bright and breezy comedy romance and talkie tests of New Plymouth aspirants for screen fame will be the attractions at the Opera House commencing to-night at 8. “Hold That Girl,” featuring James Dunn and Claire Trevor, tells of a young detective who falls in love with a girl reporter, while they are both covering the same assignment. On a jewel robbery assignment, upon which both are working, the girl slips into a car, and is the witness to the jeweller’s murder. She is discovered and brought to the gang’s headquarters. Meanwhile, the young detective has trailed the car, and arrives on the scene in time to save his sweetheart an..< to apprehend the gangsters. Dr. A. L. Lewis, Hollywood, who is searching New Zealand for screen types to use in Australian comedy talkies, will conduct his interesting and entertaining talkie tests on the stage to-night, also Thursday and Friday nights. Reports from other localities where he has appeared indicate that local audiences are in for a rare treat.

and that the doctor is bringing a bona fide opportunity to local aspirants for screen fame. PLAZA THEATRE, STRATFORD. “I LOVED YOU WEDNESDAY.” "I Loved You Wednesday,” with a cast of notable screen personalities, will commence a one-day session at the Plaza Theatre, Stratford, to-day. The cast includes Warner Baxter, Elissa Landi, Miriam Jordan, Victor Jory and Laura Hope Crews. The story revolves around the glamorous figure of a ballet dancer at Paris who, seeking to heal the wounds left by an unfortunate love affair, goes to South America to launch on a professional dancing career. There she meets a handsome engineer who falls in love with her. Their work separates them, but they meet later at New York, each of them having won a measure of fame. They are about to embark on a honeymoon trip aboard his yacht when her Paris lover puts in a sudden appearance and complicates matters. Two features of the film are a dramatisation of the work at Boulder Dam and the Dance of the Maidens.