THE THEATRE WEEK

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1935, Page 8 (Supplement)

THE THEATRE WEEK

FILMS AT NEW PLYMOUTH. In “Rendezvous .at Midnight,” which will be screened on Wednesday at the Regent Theatre, the head of a city police force is told by his sweetheart that she has murdered a prominent man. Although she says later she spoke merely in jest all the clues point to hei- guilt. What happens is gripping drama.

“The Human Side,” double-billed for the Regent Theatre on Saturday with “Hello, Trouble” is a dramatically riotous story about a man whom all women loved and who insisted on being in love with his former wife in spite of what the others did for him—and to him.

The fun starts in “The Vagabond Lady,” which will be seen at Everybody’s Theatre on Wednesday, when Tony, the irresponsible son of a millionaire department store owner, returns from a round-the-world tour in a sailing boat. He comes home just in time to complicate the wedding plans of his more dignified brother, John, who is arranging to marry the daughter of the store’s highly irresponsible and somewhat riotous head janitor.

“The Little Colonel” to be shown at the State Theatre on Saturday is a tale of Kentucky in the late ’seventies. It describes the mellowing, through a child’s charm, of a rigid old soldier who has turned his daughter from his door because she married a man of whom he did not approve.

“Passport to Fam®” to be filmed at the State on Wednesday with “His Majesty and Co.” presents the hilarious and exciting adventures of a meek, poetic office clerk who has sprung into the headlines because of his remarkable resemblance to the country’s most dangerous criminal.

The attempts of two bands of criminals in “The White Cockatoo,” to open its New Plymouth season to-day at the Opera House and its Hawera season at the Grand Theatre on Thursday, to steal, a young American girl’s fortune, lead to three murders, and the kidnapping of the heiress.

“Casino Murder Case” on the New Plymouth Opera House programme for Saturday is a chapter from the life of the well-known fictional detective Philo Vance. It tells how he out-wits a particularly clever murderer who displays considerable skill in his efforts to throw the investigators off the track.

In “Enter Madame,” a beautiful opera star treats her husband as somebody whose importance lies in between her pet dog and her singing career. When she loses him, however, she sets out in anxious pursuit. The picture, which will be presented on Wednesday at the New Plymouth Opera House, has the additional attraction of featuring Richard Bonelli, metropolitan opera star’, and Nina Koshetz, famous soprano. FILMS AT STRATFORD. “After Office Hours” shows how an energetic news editor solves a murder mystery. It is humorous mystery romance coming to the Plaza Theatre on Tuesday. # * * * Charlie Chan solves another bloodchilling mystery in “Charlie Chan’s Ccurage,” coming to the Plaza Theatre on Thursday and Friday. Who threw the deadly knife that killed a faithful Chinese servant? Why did a pet parrot scream, “Help! Murder!”? Who killed the bird, silencing that scream forever? Who had been murdered at a millionaire’s lonely desert mansion . . . and where was the body?

The drugged actions of a respected choir leader, slave to the opium habit, have direct bearing on the mysterious disappearance of a young man in “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” coming to the Hawera Opera House on Thursday and to the Plaza at Stratford on Saturday.

In “A Notorious Gentleman,” which comes to the King’s Theatre on Saturday, a lawyer, Willed in the defense of murderers, attempts to commit “the perfect crime,” confident that he will be able to cheat the law and escape punishment.