CINEMA PROGRAMMES

Taranaki Daily News, 20 April 1935, Page 5

CINEMA PROGRAMMES

REGENT MATINEE TO-DAY. SPECIAL CHILDREN’S PROGRAMME. To ensure that suitable screen entertainment is available for the children this Easter, the management of The Regent has arranged to screen a specially chosen programme at the matinees today and Monday, commencing at 2 p.m. The principal feature is entitled “Shotgun Pass” and it contains all the elements of entertainment the children adore—fights, thrills, romance and daring horsemanship. Tim McCoy, the virile outdoor star, heads the cast. The supporting programme is varied and interesting and contains “The Dognapper,” the latest adventure of Walt Disney’s famous rodent, Mickey Mouse, a further thrilling episode of “The Vanishing Shadow” and the latest sports thrills and organlogues. Attendance reward tickets will be distribut’d at to-day’s matinee.

REGENT "” T EATRE TO-NIGHT.

ANNA STEN AND FREDRIC MARCH.

A world that is now only a memory comes to ife again as Anna Sten and Fredric March-begin a three nights’ engagement at the Regent Theatre in Samuel Goldwyn’s presentation of “We Live Again,” retitled from the “Resurrection” of Leo Tolstoy. An idyllic courtship between an aristocratic young cadet and an ?ple-cheekcd peasant girl becomes a grim struggle through misery and despair toward happiness and peace in the screen play by Preston Sturges, Maxwell Anderson and Leonard Praskins. This best loved of all Russian stories has the countryside in the days of the Czars as its early setting. Colourful religious festivals, gypsy songs, breath-taking cavalry manoeuvres; Moscow, heavy with food and wine and debauched gaiety; sombre grey prisons, the taut trial that gambles with human lives, the exile with which criminals were pun shed in that distant day, are details in the patch-quilt panorama that Director Rouben Mamouliun has taken out of Tolstoy’s great humanitarian novel as a setting for the screen version, released through United Artists. Miss Sten and Mr. March have as fellow protagonists in the new Rouben Mamoulian picture, lovely young Jane Baxter, newly arrived from England, C. Aubrey Smith, Jessie Ralph, Sam Jaffe and Mary Forbes. A quality supporting programme includes Walt Disney s latest Mickey Mouse cartoon, “Nights of Romance” G. -ganlogi. “Thrill Flashes” (sporting item), “Arounu Malaysia” (travel) and “Nocturne” (Organlogue). The box plans are '■ Lester’s or ring theatre (’phone 548) to-night.

EVERYBODY’S THEATRE. BRIGHT EASTER FARE. Gracie Fields who, by the way, has just signed a new contract giving her £150,000 for three pictures, making her the highest-paid.film star in the world—has in “Sing As We Go,” which begins at Everybody’s to-day at 2 and 8 p.m., an ideal vehicle for her gifts, written by no less a literary personality than J. B. Priestley. The result is a hilarious musical comedy pervaded with the

boisterous gaiety of Gracie Fields. Miss Fields appears as a factory worker, a waitress in a cheap boarding house, , a bogus fortune teller, a disappearing lady, and a human spider in a circus, a music hall singer and a match maker. The scenes in the fortune-telling “emporium,” where Miss Fields has to tell the clients that there is a dark, handsome man coming into their lives soon, and that they are misunderstood by the world, is especially funny. A number of bright songs are introduced, including “In My Little Bottom Drawer." When the silk mill at which Miss Fields works goes out of business she is seen leaving on a bicycle for Blackpool, in search of work. She has numerous exciting and very amusing adventures there. The audience rocked with laughter at the scenes, where a typical English policeman pursued Gracie through an amusement park. The two are seen rushing over* sidewalks, through “fun factories” and down slipper slides, and finally disappearing into the side streets of Blackpool. There is another funny interlude where Miss Fields is accidentally led on to the batlung beauties’ platform at an important ball. It is by shefer force of. personality that she makes the picture what it is. Heading a fine supporting cast is Dorothy Hyson, appearing as the winner of a bathing beauty contest. Playing opposite her is John Loder, who is cast as the manager of a mill. The subordinate programme includes Cinesound Review, Australian Oranges (Interest), /Pathe Pictorial and “Valiant Tailor,” a musical cartoon in colour. The box plans are at Lester’s or, ring 365 tonight.